Margarita Cupcakes

These Margarita cupcakes are easy to make, refreshing, delicious, and a perfect summer dessert. This cupcake recipe includes all the ingredients that a classic margarita has. To create a real margarita flavor, I have incorporated, fresh lime juice, key lime zest, and Tequila.

About This Recipe

• This recipe uses freshly squeezed lime juice and lemon zest. Grated lime zest has a very fresh and distinct aroma and adds a lot of citrusy flavor to any drinks or baked goods. In this recipe, we are using a ton of lime zest in both the cupcakes and the frosting.
• We are using freshly squeezed lime juice. I recommend using freshly squeezed lemon juice instead of store-bought ones.
• As the margarita drink recipe calls, tequila is one of the main ingredients in this recipe. We use only a small amount of tequila in this recipe to add flavor. Any kind of tequila works fine.
• I have garnished the finished cupcakes with coarse salt flakes just like a real margarita drink!
• The other ingredients are just the basic ingredient that we would use to make cupcakes with a margarita twist.
• The frosting is the American style buttercream, and to make the buttercream more stabilized especially on a hot summer day, I am adding a teaspoon of Meringue Powder to the buttercream! Meringue powder is a dry powder that is mainly pasteurized dried egg whites that are ground into a fine powder. It helps to absorb the moisture in the buttercream to make it firmer. Give it a try and see what a difference it makes. Meringue Powder

How To Make These Margarita Cupcakes

Let's make The Cupcakes First;

• This recipe makes about 16-18 cupcakes. Prepare your muffin pan with cupcake liners.
• Sift all the dry and set aside. Start with beating the butter, oil, and sugar until light, pale and fluffy.
• Add in the eggs, one at a time, and beat between each one. At this stage, the more you beat the batter the better. The result will be a fluffy and light crumb.
• Add in the lime juice, zest, vanilla extract, tequila, and mix.
• When it comes to this buttercream, it is totally up to you how much tequila flavor you like to taste, and the same for the lime juice. It depends on how sour tasing you like the buttercream to be. Add or reduce these two ingredients accordingly (Tequila & Lime Juice)
• Add in the dry ingredients alternating with milk, start and finish with dry.
• Fill in cupcake liners to ⅔ of their capacity, and bake.

How To Make The Frosting;

• We start with beating the room temperature butter. For any kind of American buttercream, beating the butter well is a key! Beat the butter until it is light, fluffy, pale, almost white.
• In a small bowl mix the Meringue Powder with one cup of the powdered sugar. Add poonfull of this mixture to the butter and mix well. After the whole cup is added, add the rest of the mixture in spoonfull.
• Add the lime juice, vanilla extract, tequila, and the lemon zest and mix.
• If the buttercream is too runny add more powdered sugar, and if it is too dry add a couple tablepoon heavy cream.
• Frost the cool cupcakes and enjoy 🙂

See more cupcake ideas, Fluffy Vanilla Cupcakes, Raspberry Cupcakes, Lemon Poppyseed Cupcakes

Disclaimer: I highly recommend using the measurements in grams & ml (instead of cups & spoons) for more accuracy and better results.

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