Margarita Cupcakes

I am a huge fan of Stef over at Cupcake Project. Her crazy creations have inspired me to start baking cupcakes more often. I used to only make muffins from a pouch where you just had to add water...those days are now long behind me! I make all my cupcakes from scratch and am baking my way through Stef's recipes.

This week I tried making Stef's Margarita Cupcakes. These are my first "dangerous" cupcakes to make. They do contain tequila, but never fear people because the alcohol gets baked out of course. No, you cannot get drunk off the cupcakes, but after tasting the batter...you might be able to get drunk off of that. The frosting has kick too, with pretty "rims" lined with salt and sugar :P

N00bie Status Tips: This recipe calls for the zest of a lime. I had no idea what part of the lime the zest was.... The zest is the thin top layer of the peel. You can get the "zest" by being fancy and zesty and using a pairing knife to thinly slice it. OR you can just use the smallest holes on a grater and grate the zest off the lime. I opted for the grater which worked great. My cupcakes also didn't rise a whole lot so fill the liners pretty full.

For my serial readers: Wizard and Glass is really sad so far. But I'm loving it as well! I'm also losing in that reading race against my friend....looks like a few hours spent at Borders are necessary this weekend!!!
I don't like soy milk....but I now have a bunch leftover... Any ideas as to what I should do with it?