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Gluten Free Lemon Meringue Cupcakes

Gluten Free Lemon Meringue Cupcakes
Love cake and lemon meringue pie? This gluten free combination could be right up your street.
  • Recipe by Alison Wheatley
  • Added29th March 2016
  • Prep Time20 Mins
  • Makes12 cakes
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If you love lemon meringue pie you are going to love the cake version, they are much easier to make then the pie. These gluten free little cupcakes contain a gorgeously tangy lemon curd and then topped with some meringue and browned so you get and beautiful lemon meringue but incorporated into a cake!

This recipe is

Contains

  • Dairy
  • Egg

Method

  1. Cream together margarine and caster sugar until creamy.

  2. Beat the eggs in a jug, add one third of the egg into the margarine and sugar, mix together, then add one third of the flour, repeat until all the egg and flour is mixed in.

  3. Line a cupcake tin with cake cases, fill each case with the cake batter until about one third full.

  4. Once each case is one third full, add a tsp of lemon curd to the centre of each, then on top of that fill the cases with more cake batter.

  5. Place in an oven heated to gas mark 5/190c and cook for 15-20 mins until cooked through and browned.

  6. Once cooked allow the cakes to go cold, once cold, whisk your egg whites to stiff peaks.

  7. Gradually add the caster sugar to the egg whites while still whisking to get a nice glossy texture, once the mix leaves trails across the top when the whisk is lifted the meringue is ready.

  8. Spoon a large spoonful of the meringue onto the top of each cake, to make it look more like lemon meringue ensure there are peaks on the top.

  9. Place the cakes on a baking sheet and place under the grill for 5 mins until the meringue starts to brown, alternatively if you have a blow torch you can use that to brown the meringue.

Nutritional Information (Per cake)

Cals
308
Carbs
43g
Fibre
0g
Fat
14g
Sugar
30g
Protein
3g

Last updated 8th August 2025

Alison Peters
Alison Peters has been Coeliac since June 2014 and launched Coeliac Sanctuary in August of that year, and since then has aimed to provide a one stop shop for Coeliacs, from blogs, to recipes, eating out guide and online shop.

Comments

Sandra Dennis31st March 2016
Just made these cupcakes , first time I've made gluten & dairy free cakes from scratch. Well impressed with them really light & fluffy & not 2 sweet . My meringue could have been a little stiffer , but they still tasted great. So easy 2 make !
Alison @ Coeliac Sanctuary2nd April 2016
Glad you liked them! Meringue takes a little practise to get to the right consistency, it is so easy to under or over whisk it!

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