These little beauties are made with a sponge that has very finely grated lime zest added at the creaming of the butter and sugar stage, the sugar, being slightly abrasive, helps to break the zest down and extract more of the fragrant oils that live in the skins of citrus fruits. They have had the tops cut out and the wells left behind were spread with really good lemon curd, I piped in some lime and vanilla buttercream icing, made with freshly squeezed lime juice and vanilla extract, topped them with butterfly wings made by cutting the earlier decapitation into two pieces and finished with wafer daisies and a dusting of icing sugar.
Very pretty and very delicious too!
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