Recipe Box, Sweet Tea Lemonade Cupcakes & Sweet Tea Vodka Poke Cake
Drink your sweet tea and eat it too!
Put it in your cupcakes
and spike your loaf cake with Sweet Tea Vodka!
The batter starts with Lemon cake mix, and the liquid is sweet tea with a little almond extract
I like to make mini cupcakes, they’re easy to eat and don’t feel so sinful š
They look fresh and pretty garnished with a lemon
I used half the batter and to make an “adult” cake
It is baked in a 9 x 5 loaf pan, then saturated with Sweet Tea Vodka
I used Firefly Skinny Tea, and if you’ve never tried Sweet Tea Vodka, you would be surprised how delicious it is!
Poke the warm cake all over with a long toothpick or skewer and slowly pour vodka over all, letting it soak in. Let cake sit in the pan for several hours to completely cool and soak up all the liquid
Frost the cool cake with a thick layer of buttercream and garnish with thinly sliced lemons
Enjoy!
Sweet Tea Lemonade Cupcakes & Sweet Tea Vodka Poke Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 box lemon cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup sweet tea*
- 1/3 cup butter melted
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 1/2 cup Sweet Tea or Sweet Tea Vodka
Buttercream Icing
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 3-4 T sweet tea
- Garnish
- 1 Meyer lemon zested, and sliced thinly
Instructions
- Prepare cake mix by mixing dry mix in a bowl with 3 eggs, tea, butter and almond extract. Pour into prepared baking pan or pans. Bake at 350. Check mini cupcakes after 15 minutes. Check loaf pan and regular cupcakes at 20 minutes. Bake cakes until just done, do not over bake.
- Poke cake: Immediately poke holes all over cake after baking and saturate with as much sweet tea or sweet tea vodka as it will take. Let sit in pan several hours to cool and absorb liquid.
- Frost cooled cakes with buttercream and garnish with lemon zest and lemon slices
- Servings: 48 mini cupcakes, or 24 regular cupcakes, or 2 9 x 5 loaf cakes, or 24 mini cupcakes and 1 loaf cake
Notes
Today is my sweet sister’s birthday! Happy Birthday Sally! I we could eat this cake together~š
You might also want to check out this Firefly Cocktail, a perfect summer sipper!
It’s made with Sweet Tea Vodka and lemonade
Remember, you can have your tea and eat it too!
Coming up soon I will show you an easy way to paint your own lemons and citrus
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Yum! And I forgot about sweet tea vodka. Haven’t had it in a while. That is on my next wine and spirits shopping list though. It is so good in the summer. š¹
I already like run infused cakes so this must be amazing. I think I will sneak the recipe under my husband’s nose and bat my eyelashes to him so he makes it for me. š
Ha! I like how you think!
Sounds like fun:@)
Love your spiked sweet tea cake Jenna, I bet it didn’t last long! A Firefly with Sweet Tea Vodka is a favorite summer cocktail here š
Ooooooo, that looks sooooo good.
Your lemon cake looks lovely and seriously delicious! Need to find out if stores in our area (SW) carry ‘FireFly’! Thank you for sharing! Have a fabulous weekend!
Thanks Christine! There is also a brand called Jeremiah Weed that makes a good sweet tea vodka~ >