Today I am Rotten but Last Night I was Glorious.

So Glorious, in fact, that when I went to my friend's 40th birthday cocktail party last night, I took a pan of mucho margarita cupcakes from VCTOW.

I tweaked the recipe a little to excuse me from the hassle of spending £12 on a bottle of tequila that I only need 2 tablespoons from and will then never drink cos, y'know, it tastes like ass. After much standing in the liquor aisle staring at the alcopops thoughtfully I bought a bottle of pre-mixed Jose Cuervo margarita for about £4. This also eliminated the need for fresh lime juice in the recipe and I was never going to put lime peel in anyway because, much like my future sister-in-law, I don't really like peel in things. I worked out that with the percentage of tequila in the drink being 21% I was good for the quantities specified in the book so I got on with sloshing just over 1/4 cup of the citrussy drink straight in the bowl. I know, I know, I'm a complete philistine but you know what? It worked out beautifully! The cupcakes were delicious, light, tangy and moist and garnered me plenty of compliments. The icing was salty and sweet and green and delicious.

And you know what else? I didn't take a picture because being a typical multi-tasking mum, while icing said cuppies I was applying lipstick, writing out the birthday card for my friend and barking instructions to Skint Vegan Dad on how not to burn himself and the kids to the ground while I was out living la vida loca and limbo dancing my blue lagoon-drinking self around someones kitchen.
So, to add insult to injury I'm going to CSI reconstruct my cupcake with an un-iced cupcake, some vegan buttercream I had knocking about in the fridge and rainbow sugar crystals. That's right, heres a photo of a cupcake that looks like the cupcakes I took to a friend's party last night that weren't the mucho margarita cupcakes from VCTOW.
This is almost what it looked like. Almost.


Over and out...