Page 103 - Cupcakes

KEY LIME PIE CUPCAKES

WITH COCONUT MERINGUE

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Part pie, part cake, these elegant gant cupcakes with tropical flavors have the
best of both worlds. Once baked, they are filled with a traditional Key lime pie
filling of sweetened condensed milk and real Key lime juice. Then the cupcakes
are topped with a quick coconut-flavored meringue and placed in a hot oven to
brown. Variations abound on this elegant dessert. If you are in a hurry, frost
them, unfilled, with a little whipped cream, or lighten up the filling mixture with
a little whipped cream and use it as a frosting instead. Or just fill the cupcakes

and dust them with confectioners’ sugar instead of adding the meringue. But if
you go all the way, serve them when they are still a little warm, and you will
have one stupendous cupcake with a surprise inside.