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Add the gin to a large champagne flute and top up with equal measures of rose lemonade and prosecco. I personally prefer using all three ingredients, but a friend of mine preferred hers with more gin and topped up with rose lemonade only. I made vodka- and gin-based drinks, together with some fresh fruit. But you don’t have to limit yourself to white spirits, as tequila, for example, will go well with Fentimans Pink Grapefruit, and rum makes a perfect pairing with Fentimans Ginger Beer (although be warned their Ginger Beer & Muddled Lime is a bit on the sweet side). Press the biscuits into the base of a 20cm deep spring form tinand make sure it’s firmly pressed down and level. Add the butter and caster sugar to a bowl and beat until pale and creamy – this can take around 3-4 minutes. Add your eggs one at time mixing each one until smooth. Add in the milk and Rose Lemonade and stir in slowly until combined. While cupcakes are cooking, add syrup ingredients to pan and simmer on a low heat for 5-7 minutes until slightly reduced and syrup-like in texture.
A sweet shortcrust pastry base filled with delicious dark chocolate ganache and flavoured with Fentimans Valencian Orange Tonic Water.
Fill each tin and bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes – test the cake after 30 minutes, a skewer should come out clean, remember everyone’s ovens vary slightly. Recreate the classics with a twist such as the Gently Sparkling Elderflower cupcakes, Pink Grapefruit Tonic Cheesecake, Valencian Orange Tonic Chocolate Tart, Rose Lemonade Drizzle Cake and many more. In a bowl, mix together the icing sugar and butter until pale and smooth. Add the Rose Lemonade and pipe between each layer and smooth around the top and outside. Add the butter and caster sugar to a bowl and beat until pale and creamy – this can take around 3-4 minutes. Add your eggs one at time mixing each one until smooth.
Mix together all ingredients for drizzle. When cooked poke holes in cake and pour over drizzle, allow to soak into the cake, sprinkle with sugar and cool completely. Take a saucepan and add the juice and pulp of the grapefruit, Pink Grapefruit Tonic Water and caster sugar and both sachets of veg-gel mixing slowly until combined and it starts bubble creating a syrup.
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Spoon mixture into loaf tin and smooth. Bake for 1 hour, covering with baking paper halfway through to prevent from burning, until skewer inserted comes out clean. Bake in the oven for 50-60 minutes – test the cake after 50 minutes, but a skewer should come out clean, remember everyone’s ovens vary slightly. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat until mixed fully. Add lime zest and milk. To finish the cake, make the glaze by combining the icing sugar, Botanical Tonic Water and lime zest. Add more icing sugar if too thin, pour over top of cake and decorate as desired.
Sprinkle sea salt flakes and orange rind lightly all over. Chill for 30 minutes before serving with a scoop of ice-cream or fresh cream. Add in the milk and Oriental Yuzu Tonic and stir in slowly until combined. Sieve your flour and add in two parts mixing until smooth. Decorate each cupcake with icing and top with lime slices and mini straws. Rose Lemonade Drizzle Cake While the cake is cooking, add all the syrup ingredients into pan and simmer on a low heat for 5-7 minutes until slightly reduced. Sieve your flour and add in two parts mixing until smooth. Add some pink food gel, split the mixture equally into three bowls and add a little more to each one to create three different shades of pink.Cover with parchment paper, fill with dried beans and blind bake for 12 to 15 minutes, remove beans carefully and bake again for around 15 minutes, or until golden brown. Melt the butter in a saucepan and set aside to cool whilst you smash your biscuits until they are crushed and fine. You can do this in a food processor or in a bowl with the end of a rolling-pin. I enjoy mixing drinks at home, but sometimes I feel like I end up spending the whole night just shaking and stirring and filling up other people’s glasses. So when Fentimans asked me to play around with their mixers to come up with some yummy alcoholic drinks for the festive period, I realised this was how I could get rid of my serving problem this Christmas (and New Year’s Eve)! Grease & line 3 x 6” round cake tins with parchment paper. Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Grease & Line a 2lb (900g) loaf tin with parchment paper. Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4.
Spoon the mixture into tin, and spread evenly. Bake for approx. 45 minutes, until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Preheat oven to 180C. Grease bundt tin (approx. 2 litre capacity) with butter and a sprinkling of plain flour. Slightly muddle the strawberries together with the sugar syrup. Add mint and vodka, give it a stir and add ice. Top up with Fentimans Lemonade. Garnish with mint.
For caramelised lemons, slice one lemon, sprinkle with sugar and bake at 180C for 15 minutes until slightly caramelised, allow to cool) In your stand mixer, with a whisk attachment (or bowl if using a hand-whisk), add your cream cheese, crème fraiche and icing sugar. Whisk together till smooth.
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