Baking With Spirit: The Cocktails Roundup

This month I gave you a sneak peek at my alcohol shelf, and asked you all to take a look at yours and try to use what you had in the house to make a cocktail-themed bake.

Baking With Spirit has had its highest number of entries so far with this challenge (6), so translating cocktails into baked goods was obviously a popular theme. I'm impressed not only by the variety of ways that cocktails can be turned into cake, but also because everybody used a different cocktail. All of the entries look fantastic, and I'm more than tempted to try making them all.

First up, Caroline from Caroline Makes... made these delicious looking White Russian Cupcakes. She used Creme de Cacao instead of coffee liqueur as she is more partial to its flavour, which must have made the cakes taste great. I'll definitely have to try making these for the chocoholics in my life as soon as I track down the elusive Creme de Cacao.

I adapted Nigella's Roxanne's Millionaire Shortbread to make these Grasshopper Bars. The caramel was a little stickier than usual because of the added Creme de Menthe, but nobody seemed to mind and they went down very quickly. Definitely worth a try!

Craig at The Usual Saucepans celebrated World Gin Day this month by making Foghorn Mini Loaf Cakes. A foghorn is a cocktail I hadn't heard of, but uses gin, lime and ginger ale. It sounds like a brilliant flavour combination and I bet the 'loaflettes' were delicious.

This month I was very pleased to welcome Choclette, of Chocolate Log Blog, to the Baking With Spirit club. She  made a cake based on a cocktail of her own creation, the Chocadoodledoo. The Chocadoodledoo Cake is made with genoese sponge and fresh strawberries - I bet it didn't last long!

Ellen at Bake It With Booze made these gorgeous Ginger Rogers Cupcakes, based on the cocktail named after the famous actress from Hollywood's golden age. With gin, ginger syrup, lime and ginger ale, these cupcakes sound like they pack a delicious punch.

Newcomer Natalie at The Hungry Hinny wanted to bake something with courgette and lime, cumulating in the creation of this delicious sounding Courgette Mojito Cake. I doubt this lasted very long in Natalie's house!

Return to the blog on Monday to check out the challenge for July... it's a good'un!