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Ingredients
Syrup
- 100 g caster sugar
- 1 lime zest only, no white pith
- 120 g gin
- 10 juniper berries crushed
- 80 g tonic water
- 1 lime juice only
Four cake layers
- 445 g unsalted butter softened and cut into pieces, plus extra to grease
- 400 g caster sugar
- 8 eggs room temperature
- 4 tbsp milk
- 440 g self-raising flour
- natural green food colouring
Butter icing
- 500 g unsalted butter softened and cut into pieces
- 700 g icing sugar
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp natural vanilla extract
Assembly
- natural green food colouring
- Nutrition
- per 1 portion
- Calories
- 687.3 kcal / 2886.8 kJ
- Protein
- 4.1 g
- Fat
- 42.3 g
- Carbohydrates
- 76.9 g
- Fibre
- 0.6 g
- Saturated Fat
- 27 g
- Sodium
- 341 mg