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The end of the year draws nigh !  I am down to my last 2 last recipes to finish my resolution.

One of my last remaining recipes are April’s lemon-raspberry cupcakes. When this issue arrived I just wasn’t into this recipe. The cupcakes seemed incredibly spring-like, and more than a little gratuitous. Given that we were still getting snow on the ground in April, I think I can be forgiven for not getting into the swing of things. Anyway – summer rolled around, then fall and somehow this recipe was always on the back-burner ( ok – the very very back-burner).

Today I finally got around to it. I’m not sure why I held back so long – this was absolutely no effort. Just mix the batter, add the jam and put in the oven. I used some of my wife’s homemade raspberry jam for the filling. I added a little butter and cream-cheese to the icing.

The result ? A bit super-sweet on the icing – but the inside was superb. Very “grandmothery” – had a great homemade taste. File this one under – “What took you so long ?”