A cocktail party is a fabulous time to bake some home-made cupcakes and enjoy some fresh home baking with some refreshing, tantalising drinks. This is key to making successful cupcakes for a cocktail party; vibrant, refreshing, taste bud tingling flavors. Think summery and chilling and relaxing, these are the things you want to be thinking about when planning and preparing some lovely cupcakes to go with a cocktail party.
A get-together of friends and family alike is a joyous occasion at any time, never mind when cocktails are included, and cupcakes would just be the icing on the cake, so to speak! There are plenty of ways you could integrate cupcakes into a cocktail party, such as using citrus flavors or summery colors – whatever takes your fancy. Generally, there isn't a theme for cocktail parties, but make sure to find out if there is before you start whipping up your cupcakes. If someone has been deemed 'party organiser', be sure to check with them what kind of theme or ideas they're going for with the party supplies.
A great, summery recipe for cupcakes for a cocktail party is the good old traditional lemon cupcake. Easy to make and a favorite with cake connoisseurs, these little treats will be very welcomed at any cocktail party. The recipe is simple, and there's even instructions to make a fabulous lemon icing.
First of all, all you need for your cocktail party cupcakes is a simple cupcake recipe. This usually includes butter, eggs, self-raising flour and sugar, except this time for your lemon lovelies you're going to need the finely grated zest of one lemon. Mix all the ingredients together as you usually would, then add half the lemon zest (you'll need to other half for the icing), pour into cupcake moulds, and pop in the oven.
For the icing for your cocktail cupcakes, it's very simple as well: Using an electric whisk, food processor or wooden spoon, beat the butter until very soft. Then, gradually add the icing sugar and the rest of the lemon zest and beat into the butter. Add some of the juice of the zested lemon until you have a smooth paste. When the cakes are cool, drizzle some lemon icing mixture over the top.
And there you have it, fabulous zesty lemon cupcakes for a fabulous cocktail party!
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