Thursday, February 21, 2013

Key Lime Cupcakes


For a party, I was asked if I would make Trishia Yearwood's Key Lime Cake into cupcakes.  I made some alterations to her recipe and thought they were a hit!  The alterations are listed below in the recipe (mainly the glaze and slightly with the icing), but you are able to search the net for the original recipe for her Key Lime Cake that was featured in her "Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood."

Cupcakes (makes 36)
     Ingredients
  • 3 ounce box of lime gelatin
  • 1 1/3 cup sugar
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 1/2 cup oil (IMHO I think that is too much though I still use it--I might try only 3/4 cup next time)
  • 3/4 cup orange juice
  • 1 Tbsp lemon juice (best way to obtain this is to squeeze over a mini-strainer to avoid seeds)
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 5 large eggs
  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Either grease and flour muffin tins or line with cupcake liners.
  3. Mix dry ingredients.
  4. Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
  5. Bake 15 minutes.  (For sheet cake, 35-40 min.; For 3 round 9inch pans, 20-30 min.)
  6. Pour glaze over cupcakes immediately after removing from oven.  Glaze recipe is below.
Glaze
     Ingredients (This is where Trisha and I definitely differ)
  • 1/2 cup lime juice (zest first and then put through a good juicer)
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  1. I zested each of the limes (3) and saved the zest for sprinkling over the iced cupcakes.
  2. Put the 3 limes into a good quality juicer to get as much juice from it as possible.  It should equal 1/2 cup.
  3. Mix the lime juice with 2 cups of powdered sugar to make a glaze.
  4. WHILE THE CUPCAKES ARE STILL HOT, pour a little bit of glaze on top to allow it to soak down into the cake.
  5. Be careful to reserve between 1/4-1/2 cups of glaze to add to icing.
Icing 
     Ingredients  (here I add some lime glaze for a slight bite to mellow the sweetness)
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) of butter at room temp
  • 8 oz box of cream cheese at room temp
  • 1 pound (16 ounces) of powdered sugar
  • 1/4-1/2 cup of the reserved lime glaze
  1. Cream butter and cream cheese until well blended.
  2. Slowly add powdered sugar and lime glaze until well mixed.
  3. Pipe the icing on top of cupcake and sprinkle lime zest on top for added decoration.

2 comments:

  1. I made these for a party, just as you wrote the recipe and they came out great. The only tiny glitch was my frosting was just a little soft. I'm sure if I had realized I could've adjusted something, perhaps I added too much glaze. It was still able to be piped on and I refrigerated them to keep it pretty. The flavor of the frosting was just like key lime pie. My son who doesn't like anything much, loved them.

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    1. Lacey, I'm so glad to hear you and your son enjoyed the cupcakes! :-) As for the icing, I too found that the icing can be a bit "soft" with too much of the glaze added. I try to stay around 1/4 of a cup in order to keep the shape of piped design and yet still keep the sweet/tart flavor. I didn't do this for the picture up above, but I should have... I made them again recently and this time I refrigerated the icing first before piping them on the cupcakes. That helped hold the design before serving them. Even perhaps adding a tsp or two of meringue powder should help. Come to think of it, I may try that!

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