Feeling Really Pekkish Munchie Recipe

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Here is the recipe for the G & T Cake furbished to us by Steve Erlank of the Deep South Distillery when he was with us in the studio last Wednesday. He has also said he’s going to try to adapt a cheese cake recipe to make a G & T Cheese cake, looking forward to your attempt Steve. It is somewhat complicated even The Klutz in the Kitchen has some difficulty with baking, not being a pastry chef. Have a go and let us know the outcome of your baking efforts.

Gin & Tonic Cake

Recipe byElena Silcock with acknowledgements to BBC Good Food

Preparation time: 60 min

Cooking time: 45 min, plus chilling time

Serves: 12 to 15

 

Stuff to throw it together

250g Salted butter

325g Caster sugar

4 eggs

250g self-raising flour

75g full cream/double-cream Greek yoghurt

Juice of 2 lemons

100 ml Deep South Ruby Gin (the more aromatic the gin, the better)

For the Syrup

100ml tonic water

1 teaspoon of juniper berries (lightly crushed) (For a deeper G&T flavor)

20ml of tonic syrup, obtainable from most bottle stores

For the icing

200g softened butter

400g icing sugar

2 Tablespoons of milk

Zest of 2 lemons

For decoration

2 limes zested then cut into thin slices (or slices of glazed citrus)

¼ cucumber, peeled into ribbons

1 Tablespoon of granulated sugar

A few juniper berries

How to cook it up

Heat the oven to 180C. Grease and line 2 x 20cm cake tins.

Beat together the butter and 200g of the sugar until pale and fluffy, for around 5 mins

Add the eggs one by one, making sure they are fully incorporated before adding the next one. If the mixture looks like it might split, add a tablespoon of your flour, then fold in the rest of the flour

Mix the yoghurt with the juice of one of the lemons and half the Deep South Ruby Gin, and then add this to the cake mixture to make a thick and silky mixture

Split the mixture between the cake tins and bake for 35 mins until a skewer comes out clean

Make the syrup

This is where most of the G&T flavours are found!

While the cake is baking, dissolve the remaining sugar, tonic syrup (if you have), tonic water and juice of one lime over medium heat in a saucepan, with lightly crushed juniper berries added

Once the sugar has dissolved, bring to the boil and reduce for 5-7 mins until you have a thick syrup

Cool for 5 mins, strain then stir in the remaining Deep South Ruby Gin and set aside

Once cake is baked, allow it to cool for 5 minutes, then prick all over with a skewer and liberally spoon syrup over the cake

Make the icing

Allow cake to cool completely before icing.

Make the buttercream icing by beating butter until soft, then fold in icing sugar a bit at a time

Add milk and lemon zest and lend well

Cover one cake with a third of the icing, and place second cake on top.

Cover whole cake in thin layer of icing and place in fridge for 30 mins to make the final coating easier to do.

Coat top and sides of cake with remaining icing

Decorate with sprinkles of lemon zest, lime and cucumber twists

Happy Baking

The Klutz in the Kitchen

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