Peach Margarita Cupcakes

Cinco de Mayo is this weekend! Who’s ready for all the nachos, tacos, and margaritas?? Well, how about a twist on the classic cocktail – a peach margarita cupcake. Dessert and tequila all in one? Sign me up! You’ll love this fun, festive and easy Cinco de Mayo dessert!

This peach margarita cupcake recipe calls for peach extract, which can sometimes be tricky to find. I order mine online here! If you want to make these this weekend, you can always omit the extract, and just use some extra vanilla extract instead for a classic margarita taste. Then serve with fresh peach slices on top. Perfect solution!

Makes 12 standard cupcakes

Cupcake Ingredients: 

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg plus 1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon peach extract
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup full-fat vanilla yogurt (greek or regular is fine)
1/4 cup buttermilk
2 tablespoons tequila
Juice of 1 lime
Zest of 2 limes

Tequila Lime Buttercream Ingredients: 

1 cups butter, softened
3 cups powdered sugar
Juice and zest of one lime
1 tablespoon tequila
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
 
Cupcake Directions: 

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and line a muffin tin with cupcake liners. Whisk together the dry ingredients, flour through salt.

In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter until light and fluffy. Mix in the sugar until combined. Add in the eggs, vanilla, yogurt, buttermilk and tequila and mix on low until all ingredients are incorporated. Then add the flour mixture, mixing on low until just combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary. Mix in the lime zest and juice.

Spoon the batter into the lined muffin tin, filling the liners evenly to about 1/2-2/3 full. Bake 13-16 minutes or until a toothpick comes out with moist crumbs. Allow to cool before removing from liners.

Just before frosting, brush each cupcake with tequila!  

Tequila Lime Buttercream Directions:

In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter on high speed until light and fluffy. Add powdered sugar one cup at a time, starting your mixer on low and increasing to high with each addition. Add the lime zest, juice, tequila and vanilla extract, mixing on high speed for about 3-4 minutes. Add additional cup of powdered sugar if necessary. Taste! If you’d like the frosting to taste even more like lime, add additional zest!

Sprinkle sea salt on the top of each frosted cupcake, and garnish with sprinkles and a lime wedge. I used these sprinkles from Sweets and Treats!