Lime Cupcakes with Lime Cream Cheese Frosting

We actually used a recipe for Lemon Butterfly Cupcakes from the Simple & Delicious Cupcakes book (no author noted) and amended it to make lime cupcakes. We had a block of cream cheese in the fridge that we wanted to use up, and Caitie's dad suggested lime cream cheese frosting.

Caitie mixed ¾ cup flour, 1½ teaspoons baking powder, 8 tablespoons of soft butter, ½ cup sugar, 2 eggs, finely grated rind of 1 lime and 2 tablespoons of milk together to create the batter. She baked these for about 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.

Then to make the cream cheese frosting, she just mixed the cream cheese with icing sugar and lime zest as per the instructions on the inside of the packet. Yep, there was a recipe for lime cream cheese frosting on the inside of the Philadelphia cream cheese packet!

Caitie iced the cupcakes and then we taste tested them.





We decided that while they were okay, the lime and coconut ones were much better...