Coconut and Lime’s Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting (and Coconut Cupcakes)

First, a note about the photo. Clearly the cupcakes have yet to be baked. Sorry about that, but I made these for a friend’s birthday, and we ended up getting together earlier than I expected, so I had to take them to her house to bake them. I know! Tacky, right? But with good friends you can get away with stuff like this.

Okay, that’s out of the way, so here we go.

Last but certainly not least in April’s Project Food Blog Cook-off contest is Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting (and Coconut Cupcakes) from the Coconut and Lime website. Key lime pie is my all-time favorite dessert, so when I saw this recipe, my mind went wild. I don’t bake a lot, hence I don’t frost a lot, and the only way I eat cream cheese is in frosting or as a garlic and herb spread, so I would have never thought to make something like this. But thank goodness I did. Seriously, these two recipes could turn me into a baker yet. I love, love, love these cupcakes, and the key lime frosting is so good, I’d take a spoon to it and eat it alone. Both are very easy to make too, which I especially appreciate, being a non-baker. I did end up adding a splash more key lime juice to fit my tastes, but I couldn’t imagine messing with the cupcake recipe. It’s divine.

Click here for the Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting recipe.

Click here for the Coconut Cupcake recipe.

One final note: Almost every supermarket in the United States (I don’t know about abroad) carries Key Lime juice. You can find it next to the other lime and lemon juices, typically in the juice aisle.

And that’s a wrap, folks. Stay tuned for the winner announcement, and a list of May’s recipes.