What’s better than a nice, tall, cold, drink of Hard Lemonade in the warmer months? Not much..UNLESS, that tall, cold, drink is morphed into a sweet, lemony, booze drenched cake! 🙂
Now you can snack your way into boozy summertime refreshment, with enough cake to put smiles on the faces of a small army! And by “small Army” I mean, 4 or 5 of your closest booze/snack loving friends and family, …or just YOU?! ..lol!
This cake doesn’t go far~ Oh, there’s LOTS of cake, just not lots of self control, so it goes fast! Turn on the sprinkler, and send the kids out to play~ this dessert is for big kids grown ups only!
Moist and intense with each beautiful, boozy, buzz-induced bite, you’ll definitely taste and feel that Hard Lemonade experience..slice after delicious slice!
What you’ll need:
13×9 cake pan
1 box of Lemon Cake Mix
1 bottle of Hard Lemonade DIVIDED (..for a non alcoholic version, simply use regular Lemonade)
the zest of 1 lemon
1 small jar of lemon curd for topping~ I show 2 jars, but only used one!
1/2 cup or so of powdered sugar for dusting
Directions:
The Cake:
In a medium bowl, mix up the cake mix .. according to your box instructions, ,,,BUT replace the water amount..with the
Hard Lemonade… then stir in that lemon zest!
Pour the batter into a sprayed 13×9 cake pan, and bake at 350 for approx. 15 minutes, or until it’s cooked through.
Let it cool.
When it’s cool, spread the Lemon Curd all over the top of the cake..If the curd is too thick, warm it in the microwave with a few small splashes of the hard lemonade for a few seconds to loosen it up…
Let it snow some sugar all up in there, don’t be shy…
And get to serving that boozy beauty UP…
Get your snack buzz on..one boozy bite at a time! CHEERS!~Enjoy! 🙂
Doesn’t the alcohol cook out? Looks yummy! Can’t wait to try it.
That theory is up for debate. I think alcohol cooks out of dishes where the alcohol can evaporate, sauces,,etc. Suspended inside a cake batter, Im not sure where it would go..but that’s just my unscientific theory..lol! For this cake, the alcohol, divided throughout the cake even if it stays.. is minimal. 🙂
A really dense fruit cake, such as Christmas cake often contains alcohol or the fruit is macerated in alcohol of some kind and remains to give flavour to the finished product.. Also sweet mince pies often include a dash of sherry or brandy, which impart a taste to the finished product
When it says divided after the words bottle of hard lemonade what does that mean is that a type of measurement
Usually it means that the ingredient will be used somewhere else in the recipe..in this case..a few splashes in the topping if needed. 🙂