recipe of the week: lime cupcakes

UPDATE: these are really quite wonderful. make them.

cupcake

1C unsalted butter, room temp
2C sugar
4 large eggs, room temp
1C milk
2-3 fresh limes juiced and zested
2 3/4C all-purpose flour
1 t baking powder
1 t baking soda
pinch salt

preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cupcake tin with cupcake papers.
cream butter and sugar and then add eggs one at a time.
stir in the milk, lime juice and zest. don't worry if the batter takes on a curd like consistency.
combine all the dry ingredients in a seperate bowl and add to the wet in 3 additions.
spoon into the cupcake papers and almost fill to the top.
bake for 15-20 minutes.


frosting

1/2C unsalted butter, very soft
4C confectioners' (icing) sugar
1/4C milk
1 fresh lime juiced and zested

combine butter, milk, lime and 1 C icing sugar and beat until smooth.
add more and more icing sugar until you get the desired thickness.
smother your cupcakes in icing!

chivalry is still alive in my bedroom

how wonderful is my boy?

anyone who knows me is aware of my intense fear of spiders indoors. it's an irrational and overwhelming phobia. alex knows this and he overcame his own shock and horror when faced with an 8 legged monster in the middle of the night. he protected my sleep from the nightmarish reality that a gargantuan spider probably walked right beside my head while i dreamed. i woke up in the end to the whirr of my wind up torch but was truly unaware of his bravery until i saw the pictures last night. read all about it!

who has $200 to spare?

al gore is going to victoria! i've seen him speak (via tv) in london and i've heard him on the radio. i'm sad i'm missing out, although i couldn't afford the $200 ticket price even if i was in victoria.