Lemon Blossom
I made Paula Deen's Lemon Blossoms over the weekend, and let me tell you they are delicious! The cupcake is the consistency of a light pound cake, and the lemon glaze on top is both sweet and tart. The recipe itself was easy (link below), but making them was a bit tricky. The key is to not fill the muffin tins more than 1/2 full or less with batter. As you can see, mine fell in the middle and came out a little dry because I used a bit too much batter. I opted to only glaze the tops, instead up dunking the whole cupcake like the recipe calls for, which was more than enough. I ended up getting 3 dozen mini cupcakes and 12 regular size cupcakes from the recipe. Both sizes worked well, but I preferred the mini cupcakes because they almost taste like donut holes and you could eat more of them :)
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[Christine] (71 months ago | reply)
I endorse geeky's claim that these were delicious! She brought me one and it was so good!
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Alan Hostetler (71 months ago | reply)
Looks great! I forgot my breakfast, can you e-mail me one?
emmiegrn (71 months ago | reply)
Beautiful food shot. Using anything special for the lighting and backdrop? I'm completely obsessed with trying to learn about studio photography now.
AND do you use anything automated to put your watermark on the photos?
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DreamValley (71 months ago | reply)
Yummy.... coffee time! :)
Great light and details
t.sullivan photography (71 months ago | reply)
@Alan: I wish I could! :)
@emmiegrn: Nothing special for lighting or backdrop. The light is natural light from my kitchen window (I had to lighten it a bit in Photoshop) and the background is the cream color of one of my plates. I'd love to make alightbox, but living in a cramped apartment I just don't have the space for one right now.
For the watermark, I just created an action in Photoshop. On the actions pallet create a new action, name it, click record, make your watermark, then click stop. Then next time you can use the action to go through the same steps! My watermark is just white text set to 20-25% opacity.
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miss moxie (71 months ago | reply)
I was hoping you'd have a photo. :-) I'm totally making these...
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emster214 (71 months ago | reply)
Yum!! I'm totally tempted to try this now!
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Mysterygirl~x (64 months ago | reply)
AM a southern girl living in CA, so I love watching Paula.
She reminds me of my family.
thanks for the tips and the recipes.
=)
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jujustars (64 months ago | reply)
that looks so yummy<3
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{o-f-f} (49 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called .:Sweet refreshment of my soul:., and we'd love to have this added to the group!