Lime Cupcakes

Cupcakes are so cute! Perfect portion size, different colours, flavors and pretty decoration. I really like cupcakes!
My tropical cake was not enough. Still want to try something… exotic.
Nowadays we can find limes everywhere any time of the year. But when I was a child I didn’t even knew they exist. The only citrus fruits that we had were bananas and oranges for Christmas.
Today I will bake some Lime cupcakes filled with lime slime, green butter cream and chocolate spider web… Well it’s Halloween so… 😊
Now let’s first make the cupcake batter. You will need:
125g self-raising flour
125g powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
130g unsalted butter at room t°
2 eggs
zest of 2 limes
1 tablespoon juice of lime
1/2 tablespoon milk
Preheat the oven at 180°C. Prepare your cupcake pan with the cupcake paper liners.
Sift together flour, baking soda and sugar in a big bowl. Zest the 2 limes in there. Add the butter and the lime juice. And the eggs goes there too. Mix it well. With the hand mixer around 2-3 minutes. Now and the milk and give it another mix till incorporated.
Now just take a spoon and separate the batter in the cupcake pan. Fill around 2/3 of each paper liner.
Bake 20 to 25 minutes. Then leave it cool completely on a kitchen rack.

While cupcakes are cooling you have enough time to prepare all the rest.
I melted 100g of dark chocolate. Covered a baking sheet with wax paper and piped some chocolate spider webs there. You can do spiders or anything you like.
I always leave my chocolate to set at room temperature. It takes much longer but the chocolate keeps its shine I think. But you could always put it in the freezer. It will be ready in not even 5 minutes.
Let’s prepare that lime slime. We are going to fill the cupcakes with it. And it’s sooo delicious.
Now you will need:
110g of powdered sugar
110ml lime juice
zest of 1 lime
2 eggs
5 egg yolks
a bit of green gel colour
Prepare a bain marie. The sugar goes in a glass bowl. Zest the lime. Juice 110ml of lime juice. I used 3 limes.

Juice also goes in the bowl.
Now add the eggs and the egg yolks.

That goes on the bain marie. Mix it quickly with a whisk till it thickens. It will take around 5-7 minutes. So whisk hard and think about all the calories you’re burning 😀
When the lime slime is thick enough we’ll get rid of the lime zest.

Put it in your sifter and it goes back it the bowl. As you see it’s pretty yellow. And we want it green. So add some green gel colour. Mix well.

Now that is lime slime! Cover and leave it aside to cool.
Butter cream time! I will mix simple vanilla butter cream and colour it in green to make it more like Helloween 😀
For the butter cream you will need:
400g powdered sugar
250g unsalted butter at room t°
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons whipping cream
Well that’s easy! Mix the butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Add the vanilla extract and give it a mix. Finally add the whipping cream and mix again till homogenous.
As I said in one of my latest posts using whipping cream or heavy cream doesn’t make a big difference. Actually I always use whipping cream and never had a problem.
Now go back to your cupcakes. We need a small well in each cupcake.

There you will pipe the lime slime. And after it will be the small limy surprise when you start eating your dessert.

And of course finally the frosting and decoration.
And here we go! Dessert time is always best!
Hope you like them!

See you soon!

Bon Appétit!
Christina