Key Lime Cupcakes With White Chocolate Frosting
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Yields:
-
18 cupcakes
ingredients
- 177.44 ml unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 236.59 ml sugar
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 4.92 ml vanilla
- 4.92 ml grated lime zest
- 25.88 ml keylime juice
- 354.88 ml flour
- 2.46 ml baking powder
- 1.23 ml baking soda
- 1.23 ml salt
- 118.29 ml buttermilk
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FROSTING
- 70.87 g white chocolate, chopped
- 118.29 ml unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 354.88 ml confectioners' sugar
- 0.25 ml salt
- 1.23 ml vanilla
- 7.39 ml keylime juice
- 29.57 ml sour cream
- grated lime zest, for garnish
directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar on high speed, until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. On low speed, add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each one. Add vanilla, lime zest, and juice and mix well.
- In another bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and soda, and salt. In 5 parts total alternately add dry ingrediants and buttermilk to butter, beginning and ending with dry. Mix until just combined.
- Line muffin tins with paper and fill each liner about 3/4 full.
- Bake for 25 minutes until tops are slightly browned and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Remove and cool in pan for 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completly.
- In a small glass bowl, set over a pot of simmering water. Slowly melt white chocolate. Remove and let cool until slightly warm.
- In a mixing bowl, beat butter until light and fluffy. On low speed, gradually add confectioners sugar until mixed.
- Add salt, vanilla, lime juice, and sour cream and mix well.
- Add melted white chocolate and mix just until incorporated.
- Frost cupcakes and garnish with grated lime zest. Can refrigerate, but don't have to.
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