Lime cupcakes

How else could I start a food blog named lime & chocolate other than with a lime recipe. If you are making it to adults; Cointreau, Limoncello or other citrus liquor makes it even more intense. These are very moist, even better the day after.

This recipe makes about 14 cupcakes.

2 eggs
2 dl sugar
4,5 dl flour
1,5 tsp baking powder
1 dl of melted butter or margarine
2,5 dl quark
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 dl orange juice
1 tbs lime juice
(1 tbs Cointreau or other citrus liquor) optional

Beat the eggs and sugar, add the dry ingredients and then the rest. Check the taste. Divide into forms and bake in 175 degrees about 20 - 25 minutes. Let the cupcakes cool.

Frosting
200g cream cheese
1 tbs butter or margarine
3 tbs icing sugar
1 tsp orange/lime juice
(a drop of Cointreau) optional

Grated zest of lime/lemon/orange

Mix the ingredients, check the taste and spread to cooled cupcakes. Garnish with grated zest.

Lime and Chocolate

Lime

With chicken, fish, chocolate, cake frosting, Caipiroska, Caipirinha... Sweet, sharp, bitter.

Once I travelled to Key West in search for a perfect Key Lime Pie – and found many. Other citrus fruits, too. Lemon Soda in Asia with few drops of liquid palm sugar to make it sweet enough. Earl Grey tea – my all time favourite is Harrod´s Earl Grey with such an intense smell and flavour. Freshly squeezed Sicilian Tarocco blood oranges for breakfast when they were in season.

Chocolate

Dark, dark, dark. Venchi, Valrhona.

Sunday evenings with my roommates in Italy, a block of dark chocolate, sharp knife and a bottle of chilled dessert wine. This is when I discovered the wonderful world of dark chocolates – and delicious dessert wines. My chocolate cake with a twist of chili or lime – or both. French chocolate tryffels for Christmas. Rich and thick Italian hot chocolates that require a spoon. Maybe a small bite of white chocolate. My white chocolate cheesecake.

These two ingredients could be my most important ones in the kitchen. But there are many more. And I am always willing to try some new ones! In this food blog I try new recipies, revisit forgotten ideas, comment what I pick up from food programmes, magazines, cookbooks, from others.

My fellow gastronauts, please join me to this intriguing journey to the world of food!

Yours,

M