Marzipan (Cup)cake(S) With Lemonglaze

Name: Marzipan (Cup)cake(S) With Lemonglaze
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 12 cupcakes, 1 serving(s)
Ingredients: 200 g marzipan; 75 g flour; 125 g butter (or half canola-oil); 50 g ground almonds; 4 eggs; 75 g dark brown sugar (or brown or white); 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or a half vanilla bean); 1 pinch salt; 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 tablespoon baking powder; 4 tablespoons icing sugar; 1/2-1 tablespoon lemon juice

Submitted by Eismeer

"You can either bake this almondy and rich sweet as cupcakes or an entire cake."

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photo by berry271

Ready In:: 30mins
Ingredients:: 12
Yields:: 12 cupcakes
Serves:: 1

ingredients

200 g marzipan
75 g flour
125 g butter (or half canola-oil)
50 g ground almonds
4 eggs
75 g dark brown sugar (or brown or white)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or a half vanilla bean)
1 pinch salt
¹⁄₂ teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon baking powder
4 tablespoons icing sugar
¹⁄₂ - 1 tablespoon lemon juice

directions

Preheat oven at 180°C.
Mix dark brown sugar and butter (or oil-butter mixture) until creamy.
Add eggs and mix until very fluffy.
Cube Marzipan and soften in microwave (about 20-30 sec. at 700 Watt). You don't need to do this, but the handling is way easier.
Incorporate marzipan, cinnamon, pinch of salt and vanilla extract into egg-butter-sugar mixture.
Add ground almonds.
Mix baking powder with flour and add to dough. Mix thoroughly.
Butter a cake pan or cupcake tin and transfer dough to it.
Bake at 180°C for about 45 minutes (cake) or 20 minutes (cupcakes).
Let cupcakes cool for 10 minutes.
Mix lemon juice and icing sugar until a thick paste forms. Glaze cooled cupcakes as you like.

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Reviews

Definitely amazing. I just finished baking the cake and whole kitchen smells like almond dream. Final result is a moist cake with a nice touch of marzipan. I used IKEA's marzipan, it has not very intense taste as sole but I think it was enough to give a good almond aroma to whole cake. I used the exact amount of ingredients and it was enough to fill 6 small cupcake tins and a medium cake tin.

Kubilay K.
Nice and moist. Not a very sweet cupcake. They also didn't taste super almondy to me. Next time I might sub in almond extract for the vanilla. I wasn't crazy about the ground almonds and the texture they added, but that's just me. Overall a nice treat. I did really like the lemonglaze and thought it turned out better than other glazes I've made. They are very pretty. I can't find my camera, or I would post a pic. I think they would be nice at a shower or at a fancy luncheon or tea. Made for PAC Spring 2013. Update: Found my camera and was able to snap a pic before the cupcakes disappeared. Yeah! I must also add that this really is a VERY moist cupcake.

berry271