Week 17: Gin and Tonic Cake

Sophie is very pleased with this weeks cake :) 

Now, I was very much opposed to this cake because of its associated with alcohol,  and therefore I took it off our list of recipes we would be baking for this cookbook (which would have been the only recipe we would not have baked), but that would have meant that we were telling a lie when we said that we were going to make all the recipes in the cookbook. And anyway, Jennifer was not opposed to it, so we collectively decided to make it.

It was going to hard to bake with something we had never tasted ;) [we takes gin after we baked the cake]

Nevertheless, we strive forward for a great cake!!

Jennifer whisking the wet ingredients into the dry 

Grating the lime

Mixing the grated lime into the batter

The batter (that had lime zest in it) tasted so good!! 

The lime juice with gin and tonic. There was only 25 ml of gin, so apparently you couldn't taste it, and definitely not get tipsy ;) 

In the oven. This time around, since it was a TWIST from the pink grapefruit loaf cake, it took much longer in the oven. We then came to the conclusion, after several attempts at baking, and the cooking time had been pushed past its time, that our new oven was not new anymore. I think, perhaps we over used it ;) hehe

Drizzling the lime, gin and tonic sugar concoction over the FINALLY BAKED loaf cake (It ended up taking 30 minutes longer in the oven). 

After much deliberation over what we should do with the rest of the gin, and my suggestion we should throw it down the toilet, I thought it would be a good idea in the end to taste a teeny bit of the drink. You know, just to say that we had. 

And so here is the video: 

Till next time,

The Baking Students xx