AMBRA GIN & TONIC DRIZZLE CAKE

Serves 8

INGREDIENTS:

     CAKE INGREDIENTS

• 250 gm Unsalted Butter at Room Temperature
• 250gm Castor Sugar
• 250 gm Self Raising Flour
• 5 Medium Eggs
• Zest of 1 Lime
  
  

     DRIZZLE

• 75 gm Castor Sugar
• 5 Tbspn Ambra Citrus Gin
• 5 Tbspn Tonic Water
  
  

       ICING

• 200gm Icing Sugar
• 3-4 Tbspn Ambra Citrus Gin

       DECORATION

• Zest of 1 Lime 
• 1 Lime for Slices

DIRECTIONS:

For the Cake

• Grease and Line a 2lb loaf tin, and preheat your oven to 180 Degrees C or 160 for Fan Forced
• Cream together butter and castor sugar
• Add in the eggs, flour and lime zest, and beat again until smooth and combined
• Pour your cake ingredients into your tin, and bake in the oven for 40-45 mins. When baked fully, a cake skewer should come out clean, and the cake shouldn’t be making a bubbling sound.
• Remove the cake from the oven and leave to cool slightly whilst making the Drizzle

For the Drizzle

• Add Castor Sugar, Ambra Citrus Gin and tonic water to a small pan.
• Heat on low-medium whilst stirring, and wait for the sugar to dissolve. Once dissolved, turn off the heat.
• Poke your cake lightly with a cake skewer/fork. And then drizzle over the cake. Leave the cake to cool fully in the tin.

To Decorate

• Once the cake has cooled, remove if rom the tin.
• In a small bowl, add your icing sugar, and gradually mix in the Gin until you get a thick pourable consistency. You don’t want it too thin, otherwise it will al run off.
• Pour the icing over the cake, and sprinkle over some lime zest and add some lime slices for more decoration.