Key Lime Cupcakes
Key lime cupcakes with key lime juice folded into the batter, topped with buttery cookie crumbs.
Ingredients
Unsalted butter (softened)
125g
Caster sugar/superfine sugar
125g
Eggs
2
Self-raising flour/cake flour
125g
Vanilla extract
1/2 tsp
Lime juice
2.5 tsp
Butter (melted)
30g
Digestive biscuits/wholemeal crackers (crushed)
150g
Instructions
1
Preheat the oven
Preheat the oven to 180˚C (350˚F, gas mark 4)
2
Mix the batter
Cream together the butter, sugar, eggs, lemon zest, flour, vanilla extract and lime juice for 3-4 minutes, until light and fluffy
3
Baking
Divide the mixture evenly into cupcake cases and bake for 25 minutes
4
Make the topping
Crush the biscuits/crackers into crumbs, then mix with the melted butter. Use to decorate the tops of the cupcakes as they come out of the oven.
