Mojito Cup Cakes
From mystic_river1 16 years ago
- 12 minutes to make
- Serves 12
YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO TASTE IF THERE IS ENOUGH RUM TWICE!You get all the flavors of a Mojito (by far my favorite mixed drink!) but in a handy, socially-acceptable cupcake form! What could be better??
Ingredients
- Mojito Cake: shopping list
- - 1/2 cup sugar shopping list
- - 1 1/2 cups flour shopping list
- - 1/4 tsp salt shopping list
- - 2 tsp baking powder shopping list
- - zest and juice of 1/2 a lime shopping list
- - handful of fresh mint. shopping list
- - 1 shot spiced or dark rum (if you've only got white rum, use brown or muscavado sugar above) shopping list
- - 1/4 cup melted butter shopping list
- - 1 beaten egg shopping list
- - 1 cup milk (milk past its date preferred) shopping list
- Mojito Icing: shopping list
- - 1 1/2 cups powdered (icing) sugar (or more, depending on rum amount)- 3 T butter, softened shopping list
- - zest and juice of half a lime shopping list
- - half shot of spiced or dark rum (or more or less to taste) shopping list
- - 12 sprigs of mint garnish (optional) shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat your oven to 350F
- Mix all the dry ingredirnts together in a big bowl.
- Melt the butter in the microwave and add the beaten egg to it.
- Add that to the dry ingredients, stirring in the milk and rum until smooth.
- Zest an entire lime, add half the zest to the bowl.
- Squeeze in half of the lime as well (keep the other half and its zest for the icing!).
- Finely chop your fresh mint, and add that to the batter, mixing well.
- Split the batter between 12 lined cupcake wrappers.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the sides pull away and are golden brown (the tops should be spongy to the touch).
- When done, remove to a wire rack and wait until they're completely cool before you attempt to ice them!
- Mojito Icing:
- Mix the butter and sugar together in a bowl until smooth.
- Add the rum and lime, mix further until stiff peaks form (add more powdered sugar if necessary).
- Taste to see if it needs more rum, and add as appropriate.
- I use a flat knife to spread the icing onto the tops of the mojito cupcakes because a spatula is just too big.
- Then add a sprig of mint on each to garnish.
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Reviewed by 4 people-
Come on... 5 from me....
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