329 Days of Citrus Cupcakes

Beer Details

Beer Style: American Pale Lager
4.8
25
Brewery: Golden Road Brewing

The Golden Road

I love Los Angeles. It has just the right amount of crazy that I am looking for in humanity. If it weren’t for the traffic, I might still live there. But most importantly is the sun. I have been spoiled with southern California weather my whole life and love every minute of it. So it seems fitting for me bake with an LA brew. Golden Road is a place I would spend more time if I didn’t have to travel over to hill. Their 329 Days of Sun Lager is a great beer for this heat.

329 Days of Citrus Cupcakes details

Yield

24 servings

Total Time

50 minutes

Active Time

25 minutes

Difficulty

Medium

329 Days of Citrus Cupcakes ingredients

2 Cups of All Purpose Flour (Or Self Rising Flour)
1 1/4 tsp of Baking Powder (Omit if using Self Rising Flour)
Pinch of salt (Omit if using Self Rising Flour)
1 Stick of Unsalted Butter (Soft)
1/2 Cup of Golden Road 329 Days of Sun Lager
1/2 Cup of Orange Juice
1 Cup of Sugar
2 Large Eggs (Room Temperature)
2/3 Cups of Whole Milk
1 tsp of Vanilla Extract
2 Cups of Powdered Sugar
2 Tablespoons of Butter (Soft)
2 Tablespoons of Milk

329 Days of Citrus Cupcakes directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line cupcake pan with 16 paper liners.
Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
Use a mixer to whisk the butter and sugar together until lightly fluffy, for about 3 minutes.
Add orange juice and Golden Road 329 Lager into a sauce pan. Boil down until it becomes half a cup.
Beat eggs, vanilla extract, and the orange juice / beer mixture into a bowl. Mix into butter/ sugar mixture and continue beating the ingredients together. Reduce mixer speed.
Beat half of the flour and milk into the bowl. Continue beating until all ingredients of mixed together. Then add the remaining flour and continue mixing until you reach a slightly lumpy consistency.
Pour the mix into the cupcake pan, filling the cups three-quarters full. Bake for 16-20 minutes, or until you can poke the center of a cupcake with a toothpick and it comes out clean.
Let cool for 5 minutes, remove from pan and let cool some more.
In a bowl, combine milk, powdered sugar, butter, and vanilla extract together with a mixer on medium settings until smooth and fluffy
Sprinkle on some lemon zest.
Spread on cupcakes. Do stuff on the stuff and make the stuff with the stuff but not before the other stuff
Add a slice of orange for decoration

Conclusion

To be honest, this recipe started as an orange cream cupcake recipe, but, as I began baking, I realized I didn’t have an orange to work with. So it became a citrus concoction that tastes more like lemon. The cupcake itself is light and fluffy while the frosting was a punch in the mouth of lemon.

There are a couple of changes I would make in this recipe however. The orange and lemon juice made the frosting somewhat runny and, living in this California heat, also made it a mess. Instead of lemon or orange, I would go with an extract flavor as it requires very little moisture and most likely produces ten times the amount of flavor. I would also add citrus zest to the cupcake itself. This cupcake is delicious. Take it to some summer barbecues and enjoy it with a Golden Road lager.

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