KEY LIME PIE CUPCAKE CRACKER

So, despite the heatwave, the weekend was a summer smashing success between the all the city sights, sounds and adventures. Bonus, you can use the key lime simple syrup for lime margaritas! I always seem to go back to booze… 😉

KEY LIME PIE CUPCAKE CRACKER

Graham cracker crust is the perfect base for the tender, light and super limey cake!Ĭandied key limes make a sweet little cupcake topper! Plus you will use the simple syrup from candying to brush the top of these cupcakes to impart even more key lime flavor. Toasted coconut flakes to amp up that coconut buttercream! The perfect key lime pie flavor in the perfect bite of a cupcake. You get the zingy flavor of the key limes in the soft and moist crumb of the cake along with the quintessential graham cracker crust bottom! All topped off with my all time favorite, light as air Coconut Swiss Meringue Butter Cream. I do like a good pie, but I love a good cake and cupcake. She loves lemon and other citrus so I thought these would be a perfect treat on the hot summer day. Of course I make them a special birthday treat too while they visit. Then, of course, we did all the other typical things, took her out to a yummy Italian dinner, SoulCycle in the morning, I made my cinnamon cassava pancakes for breakfast, went shopping, got our nails done, you name it! It’s always a good sign when she passes out on the couch after a long day while I was making dinner! We did our job! I thought it was overrated and not scary, but hey, it wasn’t my birthday weekend, so I guess what I think doesn’t matter 😊. Well, we decided to be tourists in our own town and took her up to the top of the Hancock building for the 360-degree view of the beautiful city! Plus, you can do the tilt, where you are up against the glass at the top of the building and the wall tilts out, so you are looking down all those floors. We had my 14-year-old niece this past weekend during the heat wave, so that made things even a little more difficult! Last year we took her to indoor skydiving, which she loved! Although she threw up later that night and I think the skydiving may have contributed to the twisted tummy! Any who, what to do this year that was not an outdoor activity. It’s getting a bit harder as they get older in that in-between stage, not little kids anymore, but little teenagers, so we have to get creative. It’s such a fun tradition and they get to get away for a special weekend with their aunties and grandma, out of the confines of the burbs where they get to experience new things they just can’t get every day. We have a tradition with my nieces and nephew, that each year around their birthdays we take the birthday girl or boy for the weekend in the big city. Mmm, you put the lime in the coconut… and eat it all up 🙂 Any who, no bitter cold yet and we will summer on with my Key Lime Pie Cupcakes! Limey cake with a graham cracker bottom topped off with light as air coconut swiss meringue buttercream. Don’t worry, people will soon be complaining about the bitter cold and wishing for that heatwave.

We made it through the heatwave, and we didn’t melt! It did drop like 20 degrees in a matter of an hour! Gotta love Chicago.

Key lime pie cupcake