Margarita Cake – a moist and super delicious way to use up your cake mix to make something really fabulous.
Oh well, Christmas is now over. As soon as it came, it’s now gone. We spent some time at Christmas with my sister and her family, who have been sick with a cold and flu for quite a bit now and sure enough I ended up getting sick from them too now. So here I am sitting in my PJs, with a super scratchy throat and so congested that I can’t breathe through my nose anymore, surrounded by cough syrups, lozenges, hot teas and napkins. What a way to end the year with.
But before I got really sick, I did manage to make this margarita cake, which I truly think is my grown up cake because of all the alcohol in it. And before you ask me if you can skip the alcohol in this cake, I would suggest to you to find another recipe, because this cake is really all about the booze. This cake truly is like eating a margarita, but in a cake form.
It really does have all the ingredients of a margarita, the triple sec and loads of tequila. So this cake, my friends, this is what I would make for an adult New Year’s Eve party. This is my adult cake. You also have triple sec and tequila in that amazing glaze as well, which I believe makes the cake.
I chose to make my cake in this adorable mini bundt pan, which ended up making 6 of the cutest pretty little cakes ever.
The recipe will make enough batter to fully fill 6 mini bundt cakes. If you spray plenty of oil on each bundt insert you will have no problems getting the cakes out. All I had to do basically is place a cutting board over the top of the bundt pan, flip it over and the cakes just easily fell out.
But these mini cakes are all about the glaze. I wish I had some limes for the lime zest, I think it would have given these mini cakes a gorgeous green color, but I was out. All I had left was Meyer lemons which I love and were perfect here in this cake. So dig in my adult friends, this cake’s for you.
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Margarita Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 package lemon cake mix
- 1 package instant lemon pudding mix
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup frozen lemonade concentrate
- 4 large eggs
- 2 tbsp triple sec
- 1/2 cup tequila
Tequila-lime glaze
- 1 1/2 tbsp tequila
- 1 tbsp triple sec
- 1/4 tsp zest of a lime
- 1 tbsp line juice
- 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F degrees and grease and flour a bundt pan.
- In the bowl of a mixer, combine the cake mix, pudding mix, vegetable oil, lemonade, water, eggs, triple sec and tequila and mix for 5 min at medium speed.
- Pour the batter in the bundt pan and bake for 45 min to an hour or until done, use a toothpick in the center, if it comes out clean, it's done. While the cake is baking, you can make the glaze, so basically add all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk them well, if it needs to be a bit thicker, just add more powdered sugar. Let the cake cool on a wire rack for a few minutes, about 10 minutes, and then remove it from the bundt pan and let it cool completely.
- Pour the glaze over the cake and you've got yourself a yummy yummy margarita cake.
Recipe Notes
Nutrition Information:
What you’ll need:
If I am planning on using yellow cake mix instead of lemon cake, how much lemon extract do you think I should add? Thanks!!
I’d use 2-3 tsp! Depends how lemony you’d like it to be.
Can I use a 9×13 pan instead of a bundt pan?
You can. 9×13 holds a bit more volume than a bundt cake so it may come out thin, 10×10 would work best.
I just made the margarita mini bundt cakes. For so long e reason its gooey!
Every oven is different, and cook times can even differ with altitude. You can bake the cakes longer if they need it.
I just found you so I wanted to make these little cakes. 45 min? I know where I think I can buy the pans at Michaels but in case I cant you didn’t (at least I think so) leave the pic of the pan so, I couldn’t find it?
The 45 min to an hour is for baking the cake in a regular bundt pan. If you want to make the little cakes it would take about 20 minutes to bake them. There’s a picture of the pan in the post, but here’s the link to amazon where you can get it. http://amzn.to/2rCuYjB
So a altered this a little and used a strawberry cake mix and coconut cream pudding, strawberry daiquiri mix and parrot bay coconut rum, currently in the oven! But they smell amazing!
These mini cakes look so cute, I decided to give it a go for a 21st birthday. Made the first mix and used frozen concentrated lime margarita mix. I also had a strawberry cake and pudding mixes and frozen strawberry lemonade concentrate so they got made too. Can’t wait to dig in.
I made a similar recipe back in the 80s from a magazine and it was a great hit at an office party. Unfortunately, I lost the recipe over the years. Thank you for posting. This sounds similar and the glaze does indeed make it over the top delicious!
How long do you bake these in the mini pans?
Mine took about 30 minutes to bake, Carlene, check them and when you insert a toothpick and it comes out clean, they are done. 🙂
I just finished making this for my ma. Were going to the beach tomorrow for her birthday and she absolutely loves margaritas. I put frozen margarita concentrate instead of lemonade. Can’t wait to try it! Thank you so much!
You’re welcome, hope you have a great day at the beach. 🙂
what size lemon pudding mix? Anxious to try these little guys~
Skip
I used the large 5 oz pudding mix.
Talk about changing up a box cake. You really did a number on it. No one would ever know it’s humble beginnings. It really helped too with the sweet cake pan you used. Crap I am sorry about your cold. There is a nasty one circulating in my part of the world. I hope by the time you are reading this that you feel better—-a bit anyway.
Thanks Carol, it actually turned into Bronchitis, but getting over it now. Happy New Year!
What an awesome idea to make a margarita flavoured cake! Can’t think of a better recipe to make for NYE… thanks for the idea!
You’re welcome! 🙂
These are so pretty and fresh sounding too. I’d love it if you shared these at What’d You Do This Weekend at Tumbleweed Contessa.
Happy New Year!
Linda
Where did you get that wonderful bundt pan? And thanks for this recipe, I know where and when I’m going to make it.
I got it on Amazon, I provided a link below the recipe, under what you’ll need. 🙂 I love it!
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