I don't even like lemon desserts....but here are some lemon and lemon raspberry cupcakes.

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• I have only been back from my world travels for about a day and a half but have love being back in my own kitchen! Did a bunch of meal prep ( I can post pictures for ideas but didn't measure anything!) and added in some baking today! I am not a huge lemon dessert fan but lemon was requested so lemon is what I made. I do not like lemon bars at all so did not really want to make those but did come up with a good idea for them so maybe next time! Was thinking of doing lemon raspberry or strawberry lemonade but just lemon was requested so I stuck with lemon on lemon....lemon cupcakes with lemon frosting. I will say the frosting might have swayed my lemon opinions.....
• **also just because I wanted to I stuck a few raspberries in the end of the batch and YUM! Lemon raspberry and the smell of these cooking was delightful! Enjoy! 
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• Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
• 1 cup white sugar
• 2  eggs                                                                                     
• hearty pour of pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup of cake flour
• 1/2 cup of AP flour 
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• pinch of salt
• 2 pinches of ginger
• 1/2 cup milk 
• zest of two lemons
• juice of two lemons
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• -favorite vanilla (or raspberry) butter cream recipe. I used my regular one and just added in the zest of half a lemon.
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• Directions:

•  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line cupcake tin with liners.
• 2. add butter and sugar to you mixing bowl. 
• 3. combine on medium speed until fluffy. 
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• 4. add the eggs, vanilla, lemon juice, and lemon zest. 
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• 5. mix until just combined. 
• 6. In a separate bowl, combine the flours, baking powder, salt, and ginger. 
• 7. add half of the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined. 
• 8. add in the milk and mix until just combined. 
• 9. add in the remaining flour mixture and stop mixing when combined! 
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• 10. add batter to prepared tin. 
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• **my batter made about 17 medium/smaller cupcakes so after the first 12 I added in a handful of fresh raspberries to the batter and folded them in!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• 11. Bake for 16-20 minutes. Knife should come out clean but they will still be light in color! 
• 12. let cool, frost and enjoy!
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recipe adapted from: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2013/04/11/homemade-lemon-cupcakes-with-vanilla-frosting/