Mini margarita cupcakes

Sunday, August 15, 2010

It's been a little over two months since my last post and the delay was due to a number of things including preparing to show my jewellery at the Salmon Festival Craft Fair in Steveston on July 1st. And after the fair, I had to inventorize and make some new pieces to replace the ones that sold.

But then my friend Tania announced a barbecue and I decided it was time to whip out my recipe for mini margarita cupcakes. They had always been crowd favourites and I knew they wouldn't let me down.

  • Mini margarita cupcakes
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  • 1 call-purpose flour
  • 1 tspbaking powder
  • 1/2 tspsalt
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  • 1/2 cunsalted butter
  • 3/4 cgranulated sugar
  • 3eggs, separated
  • 1 Tbspgrated lime zest (approximately one lime)
  • 2 Tbsptequila
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  • 2 Tbsplime juice
  • 1 cicing sugar
  • 1 Tbsptequila
  • Pinchsanding sugar
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  • Sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Set flour mixture aside.
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  • Cream butter with sugar. Add egg yolks one at a time and mix. Add lime zest and tequila and mix.
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  • Beat egg whites with a pinch of salt in a separate bowl until stiff but not dry. Fold flour mixture into batter. Gently fold egg whites into batter. Mix lightly.
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  • Spoon batter into 55 mini cupcake papers until about 2/3 full and bake at 350 degrees F for 9 minutes.
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  • For the glaze, mix lime juice, icing sugar, and tequila until smooth. Spoon onto cooled cupcakes and top with a little sanding sugar. Let glaze set.
The preparation was straight forward and this is what the batter looked like before adding the flour mixture and egg whites:


After the batter was fully prepared, it took on a much less yellow tone:


Here was my first tray filled with batter:


I prefer to use as little artificial colouring as possible so I chose not to add any green to the glaze. I also once added more grated lime zest for an extra zest, but these cupcakes didn't have any. In any case, the recipe above results in a lot of leftover glaze that can be used for other things and here was one of the finished cupcakes:

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TRIAL BY SUGAR is an attempt to document the recipe hacks of an occasional kitchen elf.

My name is Aileen and although I am useless in the kitchen most of the time, I enjoy baking immensely. There is something magical about throwing together a mishmash of ingredients, adding heat, and ending up in something that is much more than the sum of its parts.

Sometimes I pick recipes that fit the items in my cupboard, other times it is the ones that come with the prettiest pictures or the most intriguing combination of ingredients. However, most of the time, an idea pops in my head and I just have to find a way to recreate it in baked form. No matter how the recipes are chosen, I seem to always need to bring them to life in a different way because I don't have all the ingredients or because something else in my cupboard desperately wants to join in the fun.

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