Today was a baking day for me and the girls. I have a shower I’m co-hosting this coming weekend, and I wanted to get some things done ahead of time. I’m doing a couple different kind of cup cakes, and I found these cupcakes at Bon Appetite a couple years ago. They’ve become one of my favorites. Are some of you doing the math…this coming weekend…do cupcakes last that long? Did you know you can freeze cupcakes? I bake them early, seal them in a Zip Lock bag and wrap the bag in foil (might be overkill with the foil), put them in the freezer, pull them out a day ahead of time and let them defrost, and I frost them the day of. Makes party prep a bit less intense at the end. Since I’m not frosting them until this weekend, I’m providing a picture of these cupcakes when I’ve done them in the past. I will replace this picture with the actual picture of these once I’ve frosted them this weekend.
Ingredients
CUPCAKES
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 3/4 cup self-rising flour
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 1/2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon finely grated lime peel
- 1/4 teaspoon neon-green food coloring
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
FROSTING
- 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 tablespoon finely grated lime peel
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preparation
CUPCAKES
* Note: I like putting the food coloring (to color desire) in the frosting rather than the batter.
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Preheat oven to 350°F. Line standard muffin pan with 12 paper liners. Whisk both flours in medium bowl. Beat butter in large bowl until smooth. Add sugar; beat to blend. Beat in eggs 1 at a time, then next 3 ingredients (batter may look curdled). Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with buttermilk in 2 additions. Spoon scant 1/3 cup batter into each liner.
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Bake cupcakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool 10 minutes. Remove from pan; cool.
FROSTING
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Beat all ingredients in medium bowl until smooth. Spread over cupcakes.
Read More http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2008/09/key_lime_cupcakes#ixzz1jf7ZF0lv
looks good!
Sounds delicious!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
Thank you so much for hosting, Carrie.
Yum I love key lime pie….I must try this! I hope you will link up with me here:
http://www.thegingerbreadblog.com/2012/01/sweet-saturday-link-party-v23.html
Thanks for the invite. I linked up and linked back. Really cute blog you’ve got going on. I can’t wait to poke around some more.
Cant wait to try these!! Stopping by from Tickeled Pink!