These little beauties are made with a sponge flavoured with lime.
Trev's Tasty Tip
Add very finely grated lime zest at the creaming stage of the butter and sugar. The sugar is slightly abrasive and helps to break the zest down and extract more of the fragrant oils that live in the skins of citrus fruits.
The cakes have had the tops cut out and the wells left behind were spread with really good lemon curd, I piped in some lime and vanilla buttercream icing, made with freshly squeezed lime juice and vanilla extract, topped them with butterfly wings made by cutting the earlier decapitation into two pieces and finished with wafer daisies and a dusting of icing sugar.
Very pretty and very tasty too!
this is too cute! I recently made lemon ones by adding curd to buttercream but now I know a good way to get lime in there too i'm on it!!
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