Recipes Cupcakes & Muffin Recipes Cupcakes Gin & Tonic Cupcakes Back to Cupcakes Gin & Tonic Cupcakes Total Time 45m Prep Time 20m Bake Time 25m Serves 5 Skill Level Easy 1 Review 3 star rating Save Save this recipe Share Turn your favourite summer tipple in to a delicious cupcake! Method Preheat your oven to 180ºc/160ºc fan and line a 12-hole muffin tin with lining cases. Cream together the butter and caster sugar until light and fluffy. Grate in the lime zest. Top Tip: How to Cream Butter & Sugar How to Cream Butter & Sugar Find out more 1 Lime 175g Unsalted Butter 175g Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar (We like Billington's) Add the eggs on at a time with a tablespoon of flour each time to prevent curdling. Beat well until combined. Fold in the remaining flour and then gently mix in the tonic water to make a mixture with a smooth dropping consistency. 2 Free Range Large Egg(s) 175g Self Raising Flour 2 tbsp Tonic Water Fill each cake case about 2/3 full. Top Tip: precision measurements precision measurements If you want to be really precise, each case will have about 50g in it. Bake in your preheated oven for about 25 minutes until well risen and springy. As soon as the cakes are out of the oven, remove the cakes from the tin and leave them to cool on a rack in their cases. Make the icing by whisking the butter, icing sugar, gin and milk until they are smooth and combined. If you can, use a stand mixer for this and whisk for 5 whole minutes. The longer you whisk the softer and lighter the icing will become. 375g Icing sugar (We like Silver Spoon) 150g Unsalted Butter (Softened) 2 tbsp Gin 2 tbsp Milk Once the cakes are cool, you can pipe or spread your icing onto your cakes and decorate with a slice of Lime. sliced Lime (Zest) Let's Bake The easiest way to follow a recipe Boozy Bakes Father's Day Mother's Day Reviews Nathalie Carruthers 27 June 2017 3 star rating I haven't made these yet. The method doesn't mention the gin glaze which is mentioned in the ingredients. Is this just painted on the cupcakes before adding the icing?-----Hi Nathalie,We are sorry the recipe wasn't clear, we have now updated it so that it is clearer to follow. We hope this helps.Happy BakingThe Baking Mad Team Leave Your Thoughts Unfortunately reviews are not permitted to non-registered users. Please Log in to leave your review or ask us a question. MAKE A SHOPPING LIST Products Used in This Recipe Available to Buy Cupcake & Muffin Cases Culpitt Green Foil Cupcake Cases - Pack of 45 £1.99 Qty 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Select Cake Piping Bags & Nozzles PME Premium Reusable Piping Bag - 10" £3.99 Qty 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Select JEM Open Star Piping Nozzle - 1M £1.50 Qty 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Select Baking Tins & Trays PME 12 Hole Muffin & Cupcake Pan £7.99 Qty 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Select Baking Cooling Racks KitchenCraft Non-Stick Three Tier Cooling Rack £13.99 Qty 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Select Sugar Silver Spoon Icing Sugar 1kg £1.80 Qty 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Select Billington's Golden Caster Sugar 1kg £2.30 Qty 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Select Flours & Yeast Allinson's Self Raising White Baking Flour 1.5kg £1.55 Qty 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Select Ingredients Metric For the Cakes 175g Unsalted Butter 175g Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar (We like Billington's) This is the highest quality caster sugar available and is a great natural alternative to refined caster sugar. It has a warm golden colour from its unrefined nature and is fine grained with a subtle buttery taste, making it perfect for deliciously light sponges, shortbread and macaroons. 175g Self Raising Flour 2 Free Range Large Egg(s) 1 Lime (Zest) 2 tbsp Tonic Water For the Icing 375g Icing sugar (We like Silver Spoon) 150g Unsalted Butter (Softened) 2 tbsp Milk 10ml Gin To Decorate 1 Lime Utensils Whisk Cupcake Cases Recipe Alternatives Tennis Lemon Curd Cupcakes Tennis Lemon Curd Cupcakes Total 35m Serves 12 Skill Easy Diet Rating 5 star rating Pina colada cocktail cupcakes Pina colada cocktail cupcakes Total 40m Serves 12 Skill Easy Diet Rating No ratings yet Chocolate Pretzel Cupcake Chocolate Pretzel Cupcake Total 1h 5m Serves 10 Skill Easy Diet Rating No ratings yet
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