How to Make Lemon Blossoms

I usually go out of my way to not use boxed mixes because I feel that from-scratch recipes taste better and have more thought put into them, but my grandmother insisted I try this recipe out of our mutual love of lemon-flavored foods. I have to say, they're actually extremely tasty.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1 yellow cake mix package (standard 18-oz)
• 3 1/2 package of instant lemon pudding
• 4 large eggs
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• for the glaze you will need:
• 4 cups confectioners sugar
• 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
• 1 lemon, zested
• 3 tablespoons veg. oil
• 3 tablespoons water

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
   
   Spray mini-muffin tins with cooking spray or the good 'ol butter and flour method.

2. Mix together the cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, and oil until smooth. I used an electric mixer.
   
   Pour batter about 1/2 of the way up each mini-muffin compartment.
   
   Bake for 12 minutes (this recipe makes 5 dozen, give or take a few)

3. While the blossoms are baking, make the glaze by sifting the confectioners sugar into a bowl. Next, add the lemon juice, zest, oil, and water. Mix with a spoon until smooth.

4. Once the blossoms are done, pop them out onto a plate and dunk them into the glaze. You can cover them entirely or spoon a little over the top of each blossom.
   
   Set the freshly-glazed blossoms on a wire cooling rack with wax paper underneath. The wax paper will catch all the drippings.

5. The recipe says to let them set about an hour before they are eaten...but my family disregarded that and devoured a dozen 1 minute after I placed the first batch on the wire rack.

Tips & Warnings

• I had an exceptionally hard time getting the blossoms out of the tin without having them stick. The first batch turned out flawless, but every batch after that was a hit-or-miss, meaning, I could only salvage about half the blossoms from every batch after the first. I tried extra cooking spray and extra butter and flour but nothing worked. Maybe it was just my crummy muffin tins. Regardless, I hope you don't have that problem