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Key Lime Ginger Mini Cupcakes Recipe

Key Lime Ginger Mini Cupcakes Recipe

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Ingredients:

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3 cups cake flour
2 tbsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1 dash ground cloves
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 3/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup butter
4 large eggs
5 tbsp lime juice
1 tsp lime peel
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups buttermilk (or 1 1/4 cups milk plus 1 tsp lime juice)
8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
2 tbsp lime juice
2 tsp lime peel
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 drops green food coloring
crystallized ginger

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a 24 cup minimuffin pan with spray or butter lightly. Open the bag of crystallized ginger and pop a few in your mouth for cooking inspiration .
Combine the first seven ingredients in a large bowl. Next cream the butter and sugar, next adding eggs one at a time. Eat some more crystallized ginger (mmnnnn). Add the lime juice, peel and vanilla extract and blend. The mix will appear curdled. Better eat just a few more pieces of the ginger to fuel your energy stores for the last steps. Then add the dry ingredients and the buttermilk in alternating batches, starting with the flour mix.
Spoon batter to the top of the cups of the pan and bake 16-18 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Restrain yourself from taste testing half the batch (try to limit to just 4 or 5:), and place them to cool on a rack.
In the meantime, cream the cream cheese, butter, lime juice and peel, and vanilla until smooth and whisk in the powdered sugar, beating until the frosting is smooth. Lick the whisk clean and use a clean spatula to spread frosting across the tops of the remaining cooled cupcakes. Take the time to dip a clean finger in the frosting every once in awhile, just to make sure it hasn't changed for some unlikely reason. When done frosting, sprinkle what's left of the crystallized ginger on what's left of the cupcakes that actually have frosting and hide until time to serve.
Makes 72, unless recipe is followed exactly including tasting notes.

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Nutrition Facts

Per Serving Per 100 g

Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories	4160.72 Kcal (17420 kJ)
Calories from fat	1999.34 Kcal
		% Daily Value*
Total Fat	222.15g	342%
Cholesterol	439.81mg	147%
Sodium	3994.28mg	166%
Potassium	7023.5mg	149%
Total Carbs	504.03g	168%
Sugars	287.22g	1149%
Dietary Fiber	2.6g	10%
Protein	48.69g	97%
Vitamin C	9.3mg	16%
Vitamin A	0.9mg	28%
Iron	8.4mg	47%
Calcium	470mg	47%

Amount Per 100 g
Calories	412.32 Kcal (1726 kJ)
Calories from fat	198.13 Kcal
		% Daily Value*
Total Fat	22.01g	342%
Cholesterol	43.58mg	147%
Sodium	395.83mg	166%
Potassium	696.02mg	149%
Total Carbs	49.95g	168%
Sugars	28.46g	1149%
Dietary Fiber	0.26g	10%
Protein	4.82g	97%
Vitamin C	0.9mg	16%
Vitamin A	0.1mg	28%
Iron	0.8mg	47%
Calcium	46.6mg	47%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

101.2

Points
116

PointsPlus

Good Points

saturated fat free

Bad Points

High in Sodium,
High in Sugar,
High in Total Fat

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