What's exciting though, is I had my largest order a couple weeks ago. It was for a wedding shower. 5 dozen cupcakes! Can ya believe it? I know, I've got nothin' on the 1000 you have to make on Food Network's "Cupcake Wars" but I'm getting there! This order was 2 dozen red velvet, 2 dozen raspberry lemon, and 1 dozen vanilla bean/blackberry. They looked very pretty, if I do say so myself!
My brother's birthday was this past weekend and for months he'd been saying that he wanted his birthday present to be key lime cupcakes. Well, I got him an actual present, and today I finally made him his choice dessert, in cupcake form!
I got the recipe from Cupcake Project. It's nontraditional in the sense that it's a key lime cake with a graham cracker cream cheese frosting, instead of the other way around. It was today that I discovered yet another favorite recipe! This frosting was so good. I'm definitely more of a cream cheese frosting kinda girl, cuts back the sweetness of the powdered sugar. And the cake was light and fluffy and perfectly tart. Check 'em out!
(They're not as pretty as usual because the graham cracker crumbs in the frosting weren't fine enough to allow me to use my usual 1M pastry tip.)
A fun fact about key limes is that they are filled with seeds that will produce two trees for every one seed.
Another fun fact is that they came over with good ol' Chris Columbus, because the citrus in the fruit prevented scurvy.
Upon biting into the very first one, my brother's first words were, "Wow, these ARE good." As if he should have doubted me?! Anyway, we agreed they are a fair representation of the ever popular pie.
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