Gluten Free Lemon & Poppy-Seed Cupcakes with Lemon Butter Icing   Ingredients   215g flour mix (700g rice flour, 200g potato flour & 100g tapioca flour) 1 tsp xanthan gum 1 tsp baking powder 175g golden caster sugar zest 2 lemons   1 tbsp poppy seeds 3 eggs   100g natural yogurt 175g butter , melted and cooled slightly   Icing 250g icing sugar 90g butter juice 1 lemon 25 ml milk few drops yellow food colouring zest 1 lemon.   Heat oven to 150˚C (conventional oven) and place 12 paper muffin cup-cases into a muffin tray.  Mix the flour, sugar, lemon zest and poppy seeds together. Beat the eggs into the yogurt, and then tip this into the dry ingredients with the melted butter. Whisk together until fully mixed, and then divide between the cases. Bake for 20-22 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool for 5 mins in the tin, and then carefully pop onto a wire rack to finish cooling. To ice; beat the butter until really soft, then gradually beat in the icing sugar, lemon juice & milk.  Stir in enough food colouring for a pale lemon colour, and decorate onto each cupcake. Finish with peeled lemon zest.

Gluten Free Lemon & Poppy-Seed Cupcakes with Lemon Butter Icing

 

Ingredients

 

215g flour mix (700g rice flour, 200g potato flour & 100g tapioca flour)

1 tsp xanthan gum

1 tsp baking powder

175g golden caster sugar

zest 2 lemons  

1 tbsp poppy seeds

3 eggs  

100g natural yogurt

175g butter , melted and cooled slightly

 

Icing

250g icing sugar

90g butter

juice 1 lemon

25 ml milk

few drops yellow food colouring

zest 1 lemon.

 

Heat oven to 150˚C (conventional oven) and place 12 paper muffin cup-cases into a muffin tray.  Mix the flour, sugar, lemon zest and poppy seeds together. Beat the eggs into the yogurt, and then tip this into the dry ingredients with the melted butter. Whisk together until fully mixed, and then divide between the cases. Bake for 20-22 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool for 5 mins in the tin, and then carefully pop onto a wire rack to finish cooling.

To ice; beat the butter until really soft, then gradually beat in the icing sugar, lemon juice & milk.  Stir in enough food colouring for a pale lemon colour, and decorate onto each cupcake. Finish with peeled lemon zest.