Nigella Lawson Cupcakes Recipe

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Nigella Lawson Cupcakes
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Ingredients
6
Count
Nutrition
1820
Calories
Total time
30
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 tsp real vanilla extract
  • 2 tbsp milk

Directions:

  1. Nigella offers a very important tip to take everything you need out of the fridge in time to get to room temperature. This will give a lightness to the cupcakes later - and preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. For those on a schedule, put all of the ingredients for the cupcakes except for the milk into a food processor and blitz until smooth. Pulse while adding the milk down the funnel, to make a smooth dropping consistency.
  3. Or if you're a bit more old fashioned using a bowl and wooden spoon, cream the butter and sugar, beat in the eggs one at a time with a little of the flour. Then add the vanilla extract and fold in the rest of the flour, adding the milk to get the dropping consistency as before.
  4. Divide the mixture between a 12-bun muffin tin lined with muffin papers, and bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes. They should have risen and be golden on top. Let them cool a little in their tins on a rack, and then take them carefully out of the tin to cool in their papers, still on the wire rack.
  5. Ice with Royal Icing.
  6. Royal Icing: *2 large egg whites (or substitute powdered egg whites, 3 cups confectioners' sugar(known to Australians as icing sugar. 1 teaspoon lemon juice.
  7. Combine the egg whites and confectioners' sugar in a medium-size mixing bowl and whip with an electric mixer on medium speed until opaque and shiny, about 5 minutes. Whisk in the lemon juice, this will thin out the icing. Beat for another couple of minutes until you reach the right spreading consistency for the cupcakes.
  8. MUST use self rising flour. Substituting all purpose will result in cakes that do not rise, as no other levening agents are used in this recipe.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1820.01 Kcal (7620 kJ)
Calories from fat 360.45 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 40.05g 62%
Cholesterol 327.97mg 109%
Sodium 1092.83mg 46%
Potassium 303.01mg 6%
Total Carbs 346.16g 115%
Sugars 126.53g 506%
Dietary Fiber 5g 20%
Protein 21.11g 42%
Iron 3mg 17%
Calcium 144.2mg 14%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 368.68 Kcal (1544 kJ)
Calories from fat 73.02 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 8.11g 62%
Cholesterol 66.44mg 109%
Sodium 221.38mg 46%
Potassium 61.38mg 6%
Total Carbs 70.12g 115%
Sugars 25.63g 506%
Dietary Fiber 1.01g 20%
Protein 4.28g 42%
Iron 0.6mg 17%
Calcium 29.2mg 14%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 38.9
    Points
  • 49
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar

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