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Cottage Cheese Cupcakes

Ingredients & Directions


1 1/2 c Creamed cottage cheese
1/4 c Butter or regular margarine
1 c Brown sugar; firmly packed
1 Egg
2 ts Grated lemon peel
1/2 c Sugar
1 1/2 c Flour
1/2 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 ts Ground cinnamon
1/4 ts Ground ginger
1/4 ts Ground nutmeg
3/4 c Raisins
Lemon Glaze

Put cottage cheese through sieve or strainer.

Cream together butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg
and lemon peel. Beat in cottage cheese and sugar.

Sift together flour, soda, salt and spices. Mix into cottage cheese
mixture. Fold in raisins. Fill 18 muffin pan cups two thirds full. Bake in
350 oven for 30-35 minutes. Cool and spread tops with Lemon Glaze. Makes 18
cupcakes.

Lemon Glaze: Mix 2 tablespoons lemon juice into 1 1/2 cup sifted
confectioner’s sugar until smooth and of spreading consistency.


Yields
18 Servings