It's been a while since I played with cupcakes and new flavour creations! So when my aunt gave me a bag of white chocolate Lindor chocolates for my birthday I knew I needed to turn them into cupcakes.

At first I was planning on making my classic chocolate cupcakes and sticking one of these delicious balls of white chocolate goodness in the middle, thinking that it would look pretty fantastic when they were bitten into.

But then on Friday when I was looking through all the food porn in my rss feed, I saw a gorgeous post filled with the most delicious-looking lemon treats, and knew then and there what I needed to do.

After a little confirmation from Godiva that lemon and white chocolate do, in fact, go together, I grabbed some lemons on my way home from work and was all set.

I used My Baking Addiction's Lemon Cupcake recipe, and it was perfect! I was really pleased with the way the cupcake batter came together - slightly sweet, fluffy, and packed with citrus but not overwhelmingly so.

After I filled the cupcake cups I unwrapped the Lindor chocolates and plopped one in each cup, covered it with a little more batter and into the oven they went.

For the buttercream, I added the zest from two lemons and the juice from one, butter, and enough icing sugar until it was the right consistency. It turned out deliciously bright and not too sweet. I also made some raspberry coulis by blending a pint of raspberries, two tablespoons of sugar and the juice from one lemon, straining it, then adding some corn starch and simmering it until it was thickened.

When the cupcakes were cooled I swirrled on some buttercream and drizzled the raspberry coulis, and to be honest, waited about two seconds before sinking my teeth into one!

The lemon was bright yet subtle, the chocolate was like a sweet little surprise, and the raspberry was the perfect compliment to it all!