Gin and Tonic Loaf Cake
If gin's your thing, you're going to love this Gin and Tonic cake. Featuring the flavours you love, it's the perfect celebratory cake for any occasion.
How long will it take?
1 ½ hours
What’s the serving size?
Serves 8
What do I need?
- 200 g unsalted butter
- 200 g caster sugar
- 4 free range eggs
- 200 g self-raising flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- Zest of 1 lemon, finely grated
- 75 ml gin
For the icing
- 70 g caster sugar
- 70 ml tonic water
- 3 ½ tbsp gin
- 100 g icing sugar
- Zest of 1 lemon, finely grated
How do I make it?
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- Grease and line a loaf tin with baking paper.
- In a large bowl beat butter and caster sugar together with an electric blender until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift flour and baking powder and fold into egg and butter mixture. Add lemon zest and gin and fold through mixture.
- Pour batter into loaf tin. Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Make sugar syrup by heating caster sugar and tonic water in a small saucepan, stirring continuously while the sugar dissolves. When all sugar has dissolved increase heat and let boil for 1 minute.
- Add 2 tbsp of gin to a small bowl and combine with 2 tbsp of sugar syrup.
- When cake is removed from the oven, use a skewer to poke holes in it and drizzle over the gin and sugar syrup mixture. Leave cake in tin to cool completely.
- Mix icing sugar with 1 ½ tbsp gin to make the icing. Remove cooled cake from the loaf tin, pour over icing and top with grated lemon zest. Set aside to allow the icing to set before serving.
