These Key Lime Cupcakes are a fun take on a traditional key lime pie topped off with luscious fluffy key lime buttercream.
Key Lime Cupcakes
INGREDIENTS
Cake:
1 box White Cake Mix +box ingredients
1/2 cup Lime Juice
Frosting:
1 cup Butter
6 cup Powdered Sugar
6 tbsp Lime Juice
2 tsp Lime Zest
1 drop Green Food Colouring
DIRECTIONS
Make batter according to box EXCEPT replace 1/2 cup of water with 1/2 cup lime juice.
Fill liners about 1/2 full.
Bake 16-18 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.
Allow to cool completely on wire rack.
Cream butter in a large bowl.
Add lime juice and food colouring.
Add powdered sugar 1 cup at a time and beat until incorporated.
Add lime zest and whip until distributed.
Transfer to piping bag to frost cupcakes.
- Cake:
- 1 box White Cake Mix +box ingredients
- ½ cup Lime Juice
- Frosting:
- 1 cup Butter
- 6 cup Powdered Sugar
- 6 tbsp Lime Juice
- 2 tsp Lime Zest
- 1 drop Green Food Colouring
- Make batter according to box EXCEPT replace ½ cup of water with ½ cup lime juice.
- Fill liners about ½ full.
- Bake 16-18 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.
- Allow to cool completely on wire rack.
- Cream butter in a large bowl.
- Add lime juice and food colouring.
- Add powdered sugar 1 cup at a time and beat until incorporated.
- Add lime zest and whip until distributed.
- Transfer to piping bag to frost cupcakes.
Looks amazingly yummy! Will make for a birthday later this month.
What do you set the oven at?
I set it at 350 and cooked them for 15 minutes!
The normal temperature for baking cakes or cupcakes is 350°. Also you would bake according to package directions of the cake mix.
I would bake them at the temperature on the box mix
Do you use salted or unsalted butter?
I used 1/2 cup salted and 1/2 cup unsalted
Would the use of real key limes change the recipe?