Cupcakes with lemon zest

Recipe Title: Cupcakes with lemon zest (click here to go directly to my YouTube video of this recipe)

By: Miriam Borys

Ingredients:

3 eggs

1 cup sugar

½ warm milk (not hot)

2 T butter

1 cup flour – sifted

1 tsp. baking powder

¼ tsp. salt

1 tbsp. vanilla

Zest of     1 lemon  (optional)

1.     Beat eggs and sugar until light and fluffy with a mixer or by hand.

2.    Warm the milk, add the butter so that the butter melts.

3.    Add warm milk mixture to eggs & mix again.

4.    Remove from mixer.

5.    Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into liquid mixture. Add lemon zest.

6.    Stir by hand so you don’t over mix.

7.    Bake at 325 degrees for 10 – 14 minutes.

8.    Cool and ice with frosting of your choice.