Lime cupcakes

Lime cupcakes. I’ve tried making numerous different cake recipes, but there was always something that just didn’t seem right: too many eggs, too many ingredients, too complicated, too…meh! So how do you make the perfect cake? Oh, well… I just called my mom and got her basic cake recipe. So here it is, modified into a cupcake recipe and accompanied by a yummy cream cheese frosting.

Ingredients

for the cakes

• 250gr. self-rising flour
• 125gr. butter, room temp.
• 120ml. milk
• 200gr. sugar
• 2 eggs
• juice of 1½ limes
• 30gr. poppy seeds

for the frosting

• 100gr. butter
• 200gr. cream cheese
• 300gr. icing sugar
• zest of 1 lime
• ¾tsp vanilla extract or 1/3 vanilla pod
• a pinch of green food colouring, optional

Directions

the cakes

1. Preheat the oven, air 170 °C.
2. In a large bowl mix the butter and sugar.
3. Add the eggs, one at a time.
4. Add the milk and poppy seeds.
5. Add the flour gradually.
6. Finally, add the lime juice.
7. Fill baking cups 2/3 full and bake for 18–20 minutes. Check by inserting a toothpick in the center of a cupcake. If it comes out clean, your cupcakes are ready.
8. Wait til they cool down before decorating with the frosting.

the frosting

1. Mix the butter and cream cheese in a large bowl
2. Add the vanilla (extract or seeds), lime zest and food colouring.
3. Add the icing sugar gradually.

Lime cupcakes