Key Lime Cupcakes
From midgelet 15 years ago
- 25 minutes to make
- Serves 12
Yummy lime cupcake with a lime cream cheese frosting. Moist and flavorful
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour shopping list
- 3/4 cup self-rising flour shopping list
- 1 cup butter, room temperature, divided shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups sugar shopping list
- 2 large eggs shopping list
- 2 1/2 tablespoons fresh lime juice shopping list
- 2 tablespoons finely grated lime peel, divided shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon neon-green food coloring shopping list
- 3/4 cup buttermilk shopping list
- 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
- Line muffin pan with paper liners.
- Whisk flours in medium bowl.
- Beat 1/2 cup butter in large bowl until smooth.
- Add sugar and beat to blend.
- Beat in eggs one at a time.
- Add in fresh lime juice, 1 tablespoon lime peel, and food coloring.
- Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternately with buttermilk in 2
- additions.
- Spoon 1/3 cup batter into each liner.
- Bake cupcakes until tester inserted comes out clean, 20 to 25
- minutes.
- Cool 10 minutes and remove from pan to cool completely.
- Beat cream cheese, powdered sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 tablespoon limepeel and vanilla in medium bowl until smooth.
- Spread over cupcakes.
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cholena
in Food World loved it
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I love key lime stuff - great recipe.
jett2whit
in Union City loved it
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Recently in the mood to make some cupcakes. Thanks for the recipe for Key Lime. Think I'm going to love these... High 5
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