Make It Pinterest – Mascarpone Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes

It took me awhile, but with Pinterest I finally found my love for social media. Twitter and Facebook have never been my thing.  But, Pinterest is another story.  It’s like saving all your favorite things, but they don’t have to be in some scrapbook or recipe file, just right at your fingertips for easy retrieval.

My love for Pinterest has made me want to create a weekly post called “Make It Pinterest” where I will share a recipe or tutorial or something that I’ve made from Pinterest recently.  Maybe I’m the odd one out, but I make a lot of stuff from Pinterest — recipes, sewing tutorials, activities for the kids, decorations for my house.  A lot of the time it’s stuff I rarely show on my blog (mainly because I am having too much fun to remember a camera in the process).

Today’s Make It Pinterest is a heavenly cupcake recipe which came from a blog called There Goes the Cupcake.  It’s this heavenly Lemon Blueberry Cupcake.  The challenges I faced were A) learning how to make lemon curd because this is a cupcake stuffed with lemon curd and I’ve never made it; and B) the frosting was a mascarpone cream also with the lemon curd.  I wasn’t sure what mascarpone cream was or tasted like or even where to get it.  Plus, not only did I need to succeed in making a decent lemon curd, but I had to incorporate some of it into the frosting.

I should also mention that as ridiculous as it sounds, I usually turn my nose up at blueberries in food.  I love blueberries by themselves, but before now the thought of eating blueberries in something like a cupcake, muffin, bread, etc., has never appealed to me.  Then, I saw this cupcake, and it’s all I could think about for a week. Blueberries + lemon = yumminess!

The lemon curd was amazingly easy.  I have always been afraid of adding eggs to anything that’s hot.  It seems they always scare you with the eggs cooking themselves in the heat and then whatever you’re making comes out disgusting.  But, that didn’t happen to me.  I just kept on stirring with a whisk and about 8 minutes into it, my lemon curd was beautifully thickened.  I cooled it in the fridge.

As for the mascarpone cream, it’s heavenly and even better than cream cheese.  You can even find it at Walmart in the deli section with the “fancy” cheeses.  It’s expensive, but it was very tasty.

For the final verdict — it was divine!  Even Nate loved it, and that man is still obsessed with my pumpkin cheesecake cupcakes.  For him to say, “Wow, this is amazing!” is a feat because his usual response to any cupcake I make is “This is good, but not as good as the pumpkin ones.”

Lemon-Blueberry Cake                                                           Printable Recipe
Yields: About 30 cupcakes

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