Your Thanksgiving dinner must include fresh cranberry sauce. This simple cranberry sauce, which only requires three ingredients, goes great with turkey but can also be used as cheesecake, cheesecake topping, or the filling for cranberry and cream cheese tarts.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 40 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 24 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (15.25 ounce) package white cake mix (such as Pillsbury® Classic White)
- 1 cup water
- 3 eggs
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons lime zest
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 3 drops green food coloring (Optional)
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 2 tablespoons lime zest
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted
- 2 tablespoons pearlized sprinkles, or as needed (Optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners or spray with cooking spray.
- Mix cake mix, water, eggs, and vegetable oil together in a bowl using an electric mixer until batter is smooth, about 2 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons lime zest, lime juice, and food coloring; mix well. Pour batter into the prepared muffin cups.
- Bake in the preheated oven until golden and a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 18 minutes. Cool cupcakes on a wire rack.
- Beat butter and cream cheese together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add 2 tablespoons lime zest and vanilla extract to creamed butter mixture; mix well. Mix confectioners’ sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, into creamed butter mixture until frosting is smooth; chill in refrigerator until frosting is thickened, about 30 minutes.
- Spread frosting onto each cupcake and top with sprinkles.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 215 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 23 g |
| Cholesterol | 44 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 184 mg |
| Sugars | 18 g |
| Fat | 13 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I had high hopes for these cupcakes but they came off a little flat. I think with the amount of lime juice used you would need to add a little baking powder to offset the sourness of the limes. I would say 1 teaspoon and perhaps a little salt would bring out the lime flavor. The frosting is pretty much spot on and we loved it. I did add a little more lime juice to the frosting. Otherwise everything was done exactly as the recipe instructed.
Big hit with family and friends
I longed for just a little more lime flavor in the cake itself, so I think I’d add more lime zest or some lime juice, or perhaps both in the future. The frosting is absolutely divine, loaded with tons of fresh lime flavor. Very nice recipe Penelope, and you’re so right, very simple, too.