Recipe Box, Sweet Tea Lemonade Cupcakes & Sweet Tea Vodka Poke Cake

the Painted Apron

11 years ago

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 🙂

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

You can make 2 loaf cakes or a combination of loaf and cupcakes

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

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

*make your own sweet tea with tea bags, water and sugar to taste

NOTE: the tea flavor is very subtle, and quite delightful for anyone to enjoy. If you want a stronger tea flavor, steep your own very strong tea. You can also add lemon extract, or juice for more lemon flavor