
So mix until just mixed and then stop mixing.īake immediately. If you mix too much, you’ll over-activate the gluten in the flour and the cupcakes will be dense. Don’t scoop it and don’t pack it into the cup.ĭon’t overmix your batter. Otherwise use the ‘spoon and level’ method: spoon the flour into your measuring cup and level off the top with a knife. For the best accuracy weigh your flour on a food scale.
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You will find full instructions and measurements in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. If your vegan butter is soft (in a tub) then you will likely use less lime juice, only add as much as you need to get your frosting to the right consistency. Vegan butter – firm or stick style vegan butter works best for frostings.White vinegar – distilled white vinegar reacts with the baking soda and makes these cupcakes rise beautifully.Canola oil – can be replaced with vegetable oil.Lime zest and lime juice – you can use regular limes or key limes, whatever is easiest to get hold of.

Soy milk – can be switched for any non-dairy milk.Ingredients You’ll Need For The Cupcakes: Ingredients You’ll Need For The Frosting: Ingredient Notes Basically, you’re going to love them!Īnd if you love these cupcakes then you’ll also love our vegan lemon cupcakes. The lime flavor offsets the sweetness in a wonderful way so that there’s a lovely flavor balance between the tartness of the lime and the sweetness of the cupcake and frosting. The lime flavor in the cupcakes is subtle, but the overall effect when you bite into the cupcake with the lime frosting and the zest and the subtle lime flavor of the cupcake itself, creates a perfect lime flavored taste experience. In the end I settled on a mix of a little lime juice with a little more lime zest, and let the color stay au naturale. They look gorgeous and they taste even better! And then I wasn’t sure if I wanted to dye these guys green or stick with their natural coloring. I took a while to figure these out though! I wasn’t sure how much lime juice/lime zest to use.

They are perfectly flavored gorgeous little packages of delicious. I’m in love with these vegan key lime cupcakes!

These vegan key lime cupcakes are moist and fluffy and topped with a gorgeous lime frosting.
