Posted on Wednesday, 5th May 2010 by Grace
My search for the best Gourmet Cupcake for my niece’s bridal shower led me to these amazing Lemon-Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes and the recipe incorporates the most luscious Lemon Curd .
We’ve been very lucky this year; strawberries have been in abundance at the markets. Most of the berries are coming in from California and the strawberries have been especially sweet, juicy and flavourful. I am still looking forward to Ontario berry season but I am more than happy to indulge in these berries until then.
Last summer I decided to start canning and this gourmet cupcake recipe allowed me to feature my homemade strawberry jam. The homemade strawberry jam provided sweetness and it also screamed freshness.
I must say this is one of the best cupcakes I have ever tasted. This cupcake recipe combines four layers of absolute goodness; a lemony cookie base; a velvety, sweet strawberry cheesecake layer; a tangy, buttery lemon curd; and the final tease; a California sweet, juicy, red jewel. If these textures and flavours don’t have your taste buds singing I don’t know what will!
Plans for the bridal shower are coming along; I will be busy baking cookies for the next little while. I have some favourites that I will bake again but I am also hoping to find some new recipes to adorn the Italian cookie tray.
I think I have finally narrowed down which flowers we will be using for the centrepieces. Liana will snap some photos at V’s shower so we can share the special day. Our cookie table always looks so beautiful with so many different varieties of cookies. I am hoping to find the perfect stock paper for the menus, I want something with an embossed border and it needs to be white.
We are off to Oshawa this weekend for my great nephew’s (Luke) baptism. I’ll be taking a break from the kitchen for some much needed cuddling time. I love babies!
I have now tested three cupcake recipes; Lemon-Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes, Orange Cupcakes, Deep-Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes and I have one last recipe to test – Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes. I think choosing between the four is going to be more difficult than I anticipated!
Lemon-Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes
(from Food and Drink)
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/2 ounces (75 g) lemon social tea biscuits (1/4 pkg)
- 3 tablespoons (45 ml) unsalted butter, melted
- 2 pkgs (250 g each) regular cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) extra fruit strawberry jam
- 1/4 cup (50 ml) granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) pure vanilla extract
- 3/4 to 1 cup (175 to 250 ml) lemon curd, homemade or purchased
- 6 perfect fresh strawberries
- Preheat oven to 375° F (190° C).
- Line muffin cups with papers or silicone cups. Place eggs in a small bowl; cover with hot tap water to temper. Set aside.
- Whirl biscuits in food processor until fine crumbs, makes about 1 cup (250 ml). Whirl in melted butter until evenly coated. Dividing equally, firmly press crumbs into bottoms of cups.
- Wipe out food processor bowl. Add cream cheese, eggs, jam, sugar and vanilla; whirl until combined. Spoon into cups; level tops by tapping muffin tin on countertop a few times. Bake 20 minutes or until just set and small cracks are visible in some cakes. Cool on a rack. Then cover and refrigerate until chilled or up to 2 days.
- When ready to serve, top each cupcake with a dollop of lemon curd. Leaving green top intact, cut each berry in half lengthwise. Arrange decoratively on curd.
Makes 12 cupcakes
Lemon Curd
(from Food and Drink)
- 3 to 4 large lemons – 3/4 cup (175 ml) lemon juice
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup (250 ml) sugar
- 1/4 cup (50 ml) unsalted butter, softened
- Using 3 to 4 lemons, squeeze 3/4 cup (175 ml) juice. Stir 3 eggs with sugar in a small saucepan. Whisk in juice; add butter.
- Whisk constantly over medium to medium-low heat for 10 to 12 minutes or until mixture thickens. Do not boil!
- Remove from heat; place a sheet of plastic wrap directly on surface of curd. Cool until barely warm. Leftover curd keeps well, covered, and refrigerated for a week or more, and can be frozen for months.
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May 5th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
I see you got your header and sidebar working again. Yay! And these look absolutely scrumptious!
May 5th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Yay is so right! They are so delicious, stopping myself from eating another.
May 5th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
OMG…I’m like a kid in a candy store…which cupcake first…..I want to try the lemon curd..but maybe a bite of the chocolate…omg…..arggggggggg
I want both of them….
before my sugar crazed frenzy kicks in ….alas no pad Thai recipe….
May 5th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
You are too funny Dennis, I thought you would have a Pad Thai recipe for sure. Liana wants me to make it and I have never attempted, hoping to find a tried & tested good recipe.
May 6th, 2010 at 10:40 am
These all look too delicious. I think I could just look at the pictures. I’m enjoying this adventure with you – can’t wait to find out which dessert takes the cake (sorry, I couldn’t pass up the pun).
May 6th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Grace, you should stop by the Covent Garden Market (not during busy time) and go to Thai Delight there. The owner there sells her Pad Thai sauce by the quart, and I’m sure she’d let you in on a few secrets. She’s very sweet. And of course, the Pad Thai is absolutely delicious!
PS: These look amazing!!!
May 7th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
I will have to check it out Alexis, Liana has been asking for quite a while now. Have you ever tried making it?
May 7th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Hi Marly, I have a feeling choosing will be difficult and I may just make them all.
May 8th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Mmmm… These sound awesome!
May 8th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Kaitlin if you like chocolate, these are incredible!
May 31st, 2010 at 9:34 pm
[...] in my next post. I will be choosing between Orange Cupcakes, Deep-Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes and Lemon-Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes. Hope you’ll help me choose the perfect gourmet cupcake for V’s bridal [...]
October 25th, 2010 at 8:56 am
[...] a choice has been difficult but I have narrowed it down to a few, Orange Cupcakes, Lemon-Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes, and of course I need to add a little chocolate to the mix, Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes and [...]
December 8th, 2010 at 1:16 am
[...] favourite tangy desserts is Baked Lemon Tart. And if you like the tart and sweet combination my Lemon-Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes made with the creamiest lemon curd are to die [...]
May 9th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
You should somehow implement a way for people to comment about their experience making each recipe and ways they have tried making it. Changing something here (Example: using strawberry cream cheese and using this makes it taste this way rather than the way it tasted if you followed the recipe that we have shown here. Example: using a more tart brand of lemon biscuits adds or takes away from the desert, which ever way it might be.) Then after you do that and you have enough criticism so you would be capable of offering ways suggested to personalize each individual recipe.
Just a thought. Loved reading through this. I hope to be visiting frequently after coming across this.
May 10th, 2011 at 6:58 am
Great idea Nic, I was hoping this would happen through the regular commenting. I must admit I am quite technically challenged, not sure how I would go about setting something like that up. I’m up for any suggestions.
August 2nd, 2011 at 9:28 am
[...] decided that whichever gourmet cupcake I choose (Orange Cupcakes, Deep-Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes, Lemon-Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes or Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes), I will make the mini version. I hope to please all the guests [...]