Lemon Lime Meringue Cupcake

Here at home my daughter and I love biriyani, but hubby is not that wild about it.
He likes it but he remarks what is the use in mixing the chicken and rice and then serving, instead isn't it better to serve them seperate.

Satuday I planned a biriyani evening, making biriyani just for three of use I think is a bit too much, so I asked my inlaws to come and enjoy the biriyani and also askes hubby's uncle and wife as anyway biriyani is made in bigger quantity.
So i serve them biriyani, cutlets, raita , papadom and then fried few curd chillies as that is something hubby is wild .

My in laws only started eating Indian food after me comming to the family.
So they are not that used to spicy food. So my MIL saw these fried chillies and she took one and took a huge bite ( almost half) you can imagine she was in fire and while she was hugffing and puffing she said ohh!!!!!!!!! I can't feel my lipp anymore and we all were laughingand laughing while she was suffering. Here face was like a fully ripe tomato. But after the whole commotion she told she loved the expirence of eating half a chillie.
This has nothing to do with the recipe I am posting, i just wanted to share the incident.

Now to the recipe.
From the time I saw this cupcake in Tartlette's I have been wanting to make this. As i fell in love with these cuties , I have to admit I always fell in love with the sweets she whipps up in her place.
You can find her recipe for the cup cake and the lemon curd here
After the disaster I had with my lemon curd , i used this time from a bottle.

1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1½ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons lime oil
½ cup buttermilk
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
zest of one lime

In the bowl of an electric mixer with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well in between each addition. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add flour mixture and milk alternatively to the butter/eggs mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Add the lime juice and zest. Fill cupcake tins 2/3 full. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes until a cake tester comes out clean.

Lime Meringue Frosting:
1 cup egg whites
2 cups sugar
1 tsp. lime juice

Combine egg whites and sugar into the mixing bowl of your stand mixer and set over a water bath. Whisk by hand for a few minutes until the sugar is dissolved or preferably until the mixture reaches 110F . Transfer bowl to electric mixer, beat on medium speed for 10 minutes. Add lime juice Beat on high speed until stiff glossy peaks form, about 2 to 5 minutes more.

To fill the cupcakes: with a sharp knife cut a small hole in the cupcake, not cutting all the through. Fill the cavity with the lemon curd, and put the top back on. Spread the meringue and brown with a blow torch.

I make cakes for sunday and take them in boxes like this to my inlaws home

Friday night chilly chicken and beer

I am sure this is not the first time I tell you all how much we all like here our friday evenings. As it is the start of the weekend all of us are relaxed ..........Especially hubby and daughter.
Hubby who has been busy with his work and daughter who has been really busy with her school work.

Friday is one day she don't learn at all, she comes home after 17 hrs and then she have a biscuit or two and juice, and I am the victim as she bables to me abut what has been happening in her class that day ( this is our daily routine when she comes home from school in the evening) and I will be listening to what she is telling me.

It will be about which teacher was grumby, which one was nice, what all arguments they had in class then don't forget the importnat stuff who is with who at the moment.
I am now itself starting to feel the knot in my stomach thinking aobut this is the last school year i will have her as from next september she will be gone to University and I will only see her in weekends.

Then she is off to her violin lessons by Six for a hour, she comeback home and then by eight she is gone again for her youth orchestra rehersals and then she is only back together with her dad by 21:30 hrs.
And the moment I open the door they both want to know what the snack is for the night.

Living here, I can always buy some ready made snacks from the shops, and heat them up in the MW, but for me the home made snacks are far far better, and I prepare something and keep before they come.
So this is something I made for them.

They are simple fried chicken , jazzed up with chilies, soy sauce etc...........
The recipe you can find here in one of my earlier post.