Drunken Cupcakes

There are few combinations better in life than liquor and baked goods.  Knowing I feel this way, Greg and Amy bought me the ultimate cookbook for Christmas - The Boozy Baker by Lucy Baker.    It's awesome - recipes for baked goods using all different kinds of liquor and recipes for drinks to go with them!

For a Saturday night gathering, I decided to try out 2: Lemon cupcakes with Campari frosting, and lavender almond cupcakes with honey frosting.

Here's how it started:


The recipes are well written and easy to follow, but I think on the next round, I would fill the cups a little less.  They were only about 2/3 full, but still baked up way over the liners, which caused the edges to get a little overdone.


I like to pipe on my frosting.  It's easier, faster, and pretty frosting can hide a multitude of issues.  It went well for the lavender almond honey ones:



But I over sugared the campari frosting so ended up having to use a spatula to do them, but they still turned out pretty well.




Both flavors were well-received.