3 Citrus Desserts to Please Your Summer Sweet Tooth

Key Lime Cupcakes
Serves 12
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Ingredients
  1. 3⁄4 cup unsalted butter, softened
  2. 3⁄4 cup sugar
  3. 1 tablespoon Key lime zest
  4. 3 large eggs
  5. 11⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
  6. 1⁄2 cup graham cracker crumbs
  7. 2 teaspoons baking powder
  8. 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
  9. 1⁄4 cup half-and-half
  10. 2 tablespoons fresh Key lime juice
  11. Key Lime Filling (recipe follows)
  12. Key Lime Buttercream (recipe follows)
  13. Garnish: fresh Key lime slices
Instructions
  1. 1. Preheat oven to 350°. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners; set aside.
  2. 2. In a large bowl, combine butter, sugar, and lime zest. Beat at high speed with a mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  3. 3. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cracker crumbs, baking powder, and salt.
  4. 4. In a small bowl, whisk together half-and-half and lime juice. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, alternately with half-and-half mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups until each cup is 2⁄3 full. Bake for 16 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 5 minutes. Remove from pan, and let cool completely on a wire rack.
  5. 5. Using a melon baller, carefully remove a small amount of cake from center of each cupcake. Spoon or pipe about 1 teaspoon Key Lime Filling into center of each cupcake. Frost tops of cupcakes with Key Lime Buttercream. Garnish with fresh Key lime slices, if desired.
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Key Lime Filling
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Ingredients
  1. 1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
  2. 1⁄4 cup confectioners’ sugar
  3. 1 (10-ounce) jar lime curd
Instructions
  1. In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese at medium speed with a mixer until creamy. Add sugar, beating until smooth. Add curd, beating until combined. Cover, and refrigerate for up to 3 days.
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Key Lime Buttercream
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Ingredients
  1. 11/2 cups sugar
  2. 4 egg whites
  3. 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  4. 2 cups unsalted butter, softened
  5. 2 teaspoons Key lime zest
Instructions
  1. In the top of a double boiler over simmering water, combine sugar, egg whites, and vanilla. Cook, whisking constantly, until mixture registers 140° on a candy thermometer.
  2. Remove from heat, and transfer to a large bowl. Beat at high speed with a mixer for 10 minutes. Reduce mixer speed to medium-low; add butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in Key lime zest. Use immediately.
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