Key Lime Cupcakes

These cupcakes are by far one of my favorite cupcakes I have ever made. This is for sure one of the easy recipes that will make every one who eats them think your a pro. We all love the simple for me fancy for you recipes right?

Preheat you oven to 350 degrees
What you need is a lemon cake mix, a small box of lime jello, key lime juice, vegetable oil, eggs, powdered sugar, cream cheese, butter or margarine, and vanilla.

Start by mixing the cupcake batter. Lemon cake mix, jello, key lime juice, vegetable oil, eggs. I like to add a drop or two of green food coloring also.

I saw something on pintrest that I wanted to try. If you don't have enough muffin pans place your cupcake liners in the rings of mason jars and bake. It really worked.

 While they are baking mix your glaze which is just the powdered sugar and like juice.. Some people get confused by this. We are going to have a glaze and frosting. The glaze is what makes this cupcake. It also keeps it nice and moist.

After you pull the cupcakes out of the oven let them cool about 10 minutes then using a tooth pick poke several holes in the cupcake. Try not to poke the bottom out though. Then spread the glaze over the top. The glaze will drizzled down in to the holes. Let the cupcakes cool completely.

Mix your frosting. Cream cheese, butter or margarine, vanilla and powdered sugar.

To frost I just used a pastry bag and a Wilton 1M tip to get my swirl but of course you can frost them any way you like. Top with a little lime zest and you get this decadent cupcake that tastes just as good as it looks.

Key Lime Cupcakes

Cupcake

1 box lemon cake mix

1 small box lime jello

1/3 cup key lime juice

1/3 cup vegetable oil

3 eggs

2-3 drops green food coloring

Glaze

1 cup powdered sugar

2 - 2 1/2 Tbl key lime juice

Frosting

1 8oz package of cream cheese (softened)

1/4 cup butter or margarine (softened)

1 tsp vanilla extract

3 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Grated lime zest for decoration.

Directions:

Preheat oven 350 degrees. Line muffin tins with cupcake liners.

Beat cupcakes on low speed for 30 seconds then medium speed for 2 minutes. Scrap bowl occasionally. Fill each muffin cup 2/3 full. Bake 19-24 minutes. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, move to cooling rack and pierce tops with a tooth pick several times. Mix glaze thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle and spread over each cupcake.

Cool completely, about 30 minutes or so.

For frosting, beat cream cheese and butter on medium speed until light and fluffy. On low speed add vanilla extract and powdered sugar until mixed and fluffy. Frost and garnish cupcakes.

Store covered in refrigerator. And enjoy!

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*If you can't find key limes just buy key lime juice, it works the same in this recipe. I couldn't find key lime juice so I just used regular lime juice and it still tasted great.*

Give this a shot and come back and let me know what you think! Thanks for reading h