Friday, March 25, 2011

trying not to title this with a jimmy buffett song lyric

well, i made the margarita cupcakes i mentioned in my last post! i ended up just doing a classic buttercream with lime and orange because i'm way too tired to fight with meringue tonight. that shit calls for 8 egg whites! you can find the cupcake recipe here and i used wilton's buttercream icing recipe and added 1 teaspoon of orange juice and probably 5 tablespoons of lime juice instead of the 2 tablespoons of milk the recipe called for. oh and a pinch of salt. my cupcakes don't look anything like that picture with the recipe because a) i used a tiny bit of green food coloring in both my cupcake batter and icing b) i used a different icing technique and c) i topped mine with sugar (some with salt) rather than lime zest because, guess what, people don't actually want to eat lime zest. at least i don't. it's fine baked into something but not as a topping. also, i brushed some of the cupcakes with tequila before icing them.

i should also add that this was enough for more than 24 cupcakes. after i filled both cupcake pans i had enough batter to fill a small bread pan so i baked a little cake as well. and the after i iced the cupcakes there was also enough icing left to ice said little cake.

anyway, here are a bunch of pictures that i took of the whole process.



step one: creaming 2 sticks of butter with 2 cups of sugar

lime zest/juice!

dry ingredients

green and white gingham cupcake liners

adding eggs to the butter and sugar 

green food coloring

i cheated...i bought this just in case my 6 limes weren't juicy enough and, sure enough, they were super dry

batter just before being scooped in to the pans

fresh out of the oven


brushing tequila 

butter, shortening, and vanilla for the icing

finished icing

tada!

the ones that are brushed with tequila are also topped with salt


the rest are topped with green sugar

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