Lemon Kiwi Cupcake

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From reviewing the recipe it looks like it should be 2 1/4 cups of flour and 3/4 cup of oil and 1 to 1/2 cups of sugar. 1 teaspoon of baking powder and salt can remain the same. 1 teaspoon of vanilla. and buttermilk can probably remain the same. Use cake flour.

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When I had all the ingredients together, the batter was incredibly watery so I added about 3/4 cup more flour and instead of baking cupcakes, baked a cake. It's not awful but it is very salty - I would cut back the salt to 1/2 tsp and up the sugar to 1 1/4 cups. Also, I think regular milk would work fine. Instead of using lemon, I used 1 tsp vanilla extract instead and after about 20 minutes, upped the temp to 400. The cake rose a little and browned nicely, but these ratios are definitely off. My cake was not oily, but I think butter instead of oil would work better here. I may try again another day with all these adjustments. The cake tastes ok but since it is so salty, I'm going to make a very simple sweet, buttery frosting to go with it. I've had Molly's Cupcakes before and they were simply incredible but this tastes nothing like anything I've had from them.

tl;dr Think twice before trying this - there are surely better recipes out there. Good luck!

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I just made this recipe and it was not successful
The cupcakes were very oily and the filling tasted like eggs and no trace of kiwi (i even added more kiwi
I thought i was doing something wrong, but i made sure i followed the recipe word for word
Reading the other reviews i can see i wasn't the only one having some trouble with this recipe

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I'm a good baker, I follow recipes actually how it says, my cupcakes came out sunken in, and the filling is watery...Not good

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I read the other comments and added somethings, but nothing saved this cupcake. I added another cup of flour, a little more baking soda, and a teaspoon of baking powder. I tripled the lemon juice and the zest, I added a teaspoon of vanilla extract and vanilla bean. Thelook and texture was great but it still tasted like a corn muffin! The custard was horrid! I don't make custards often so I followed that part of the recipe pretty closely and it just tasted like egg, there was NO Kiwi taste. The whole recipe was very disappointing.

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The ratios are definitley off on this recipie....In the show she ended up using a different filling so i think that the filling recipie is incorrect. The cake must be off too because i bake at home a lot and the ratios are not right. But if I went to mollys i bet it would be Amazing!

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I was SO disappointed in these cupcakes!! We were so happy to see Eileen win and so impressed with her ideas, so we expected these cupcakes to be great. When I looked at the recipe and saw 1 Cup of vegetable oil, I thought, "ugh, that doesn't sound good and it wasn't. I have to say, I do not like a single thing about them, they're dense, greasy, the lemon flavor is weak and the custard is awful. I frequently make custards from Julia Child's "The Art of French Cooking" and this custard has such a strong egg taste that I barely recognize it as a true custard....blach.

Oh well....very disappointing recipe.

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I made these cupcakes following the recipe exactly. They were very greasy and did not rise completely. I made a second batch using only 1/2 cup oil and they were still greasy. I think these measurements were not posted correctly.