Eclectic Home and Life: Gin and Tonic Cake

June 12th

Gin and Tonic cake

This has been a weekend that here in the UK many of us have celebrated all that is British ~~and are trying hard to ignore the embarrassment that is taking place in Marseille this weekend~~. And so out came the Gin & Tonic cake that has gone down a storm in our household. Think Lemon drizzle cake with a twist and you won't be far off.

Gin is having something of a revival here in the UK again with this summer I see several gin tasting evenings scheduled and the supermarkets starting to roll out a huge variety of different gin houses. This is all good news me thinks, but I still cannot get away from the bog standard and very British Gordon's.

The cake itself is incredibly moist, the end drizzle really makes a difference so don't skimp out and poke lots of fork holes in the top of the cake before you drizzle. As is mentioned in the recipe this cake will not win you any prizes in it's looks but boy does it make up for it in taste...

The recipe I used came form the very clever and talented baker Lucy Burton from the blog Pudding Lane (as I write, the latest offering are for lavender scones, ooh quite fancy having a go at those, the lavender is just starting in my garden but I digress...)

So having just discovered Lucy and knowing that I needed to a) find a new cake recipe for my crochet class and b) that the Queen's birthday celebrations were coming up wanted to bake something British and thought a G & T cake brought with it a certain modern twist.

It's almost a store cupboard make so if you have the following in your home you are ready to begin...

4 eggs, weighed in their shells

equal weight of:

butter

caster sugar

self-raising flour

2 lemons

8-10 shots of your favourite gin

dash tonic water (optional)

150g granulated sugar

For full instructions on how to make it see Gin and Tonic Cake

And ENJOY!