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.

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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

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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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