Boozy Baking With Craft56°

Like most people, during lockdown we’re finding as many ways as we can to use pantry ingredients in fun and tasty ways. Having (mostly) mastered scones, banana bread & cinnamon rolls, it was time for a new challenge!

Having a rummage in the baking cupboard, all set for pushing outside my comfort zone, I decided it was time to make a loaf - a spiced loaf with ginger and some Wester Rum. Starting mixing away before checking if I had a loaf tin (I did not), so it became a loaf-cake.

One of my favourite things about spiced loaves is how easy they are, the recipe can be amended for whatever you’re looking to use or what you have in the back of the cupboard. Providing you have some form of spice (cinnamon, nutmeg, all spice), flour, baking soda, butter and rum, you can make

Like most, during the lockdown; we’re finding ways to get creative with our baking. We levelled up some plain scones with the addition of gin and lemon – making an afternoon tea staple even more exciting!

Family recipes can be easily altered to include your favourite ingredients – for some this might be the addition of dried fruit, fresh fruit, nuts or chocolate but in true Craft56 fashion, we added gin. Biggar Gin uses citrus peel as a botanical so this was the gin of choice!

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An easy-peasy baked gin cheesecake recipe is what you’ve always been searching for, right? Same! Sadly, there’s none online so we decided to make our own. This is the full-dairy option, we also made a Vegan Cheesecake recipe!

A baked New York Cheesecake is a staple in any cake lovers’ diet. Pair it with raspberry ripple gin and you’re got a new classic!

We used a 8-inch springform pan for our cheesecake and it yielded about 12-16 portions (depending on your preferred portion size!)

For the tasty, sweetened jelly topping, we used the luxurious

An easy-peasy baked gin cheesecake recipe is what you’ve always been searching for, right? Same! Sadly, there’s none online so we decided to make our own. This is the easy vegan cheesecake recipe, we also made an non-vegan version!

A baked New York Cheesecake is a staple in any cake lovers’ diet. Pair it with raspberry ripple gin and you’re got a new classic!

We used a 8-inch springform pan for our cheesecake and it yielded about 12-16 portions (depending on your preferred portion size!)

For the tasty, sweetened jelly topping, we used the luxurious

We’re bringing our boozy bakes back with a bang! We think the only thing better than pancakes on Shrove Tuesday is gin-infused pancakes on Shrove Tuesday…!



We used the bold McLean’s Citrus Gin to give our pancakes a refreshing kick and incorporated the gin into a refreshing sugar syrup you can recreate yourself at home!

The recipe used makes savoury-esque pancakes so as not to be overpowered by the sweet sugar syrup – we also made easy vegan pancakes!

We’re bringing our boozy bakes back with a bang! We think the only thing better than pancakes on Shrove Tuesday is gin-infused pancakes on Shrove Tuesday…!



We used the bold McLean’s Citrus Gin to give our pancakes a refreshing kick and incorporated the gin into a refreshing sugar syrup you can recreate yourself at home!

The recipe used makes savoury-esque pancakes so as not to be overpowered by the sweet sugar syrup. This is our easy vegan pancake recipe. We also made a

With the hints of an Indian Summer we've been experiencing in Glasgow this week the next in our Boozy Baking series saw us attempt some refreshing Gin, Tonic & Orange cupcakes.

We used a combination of Ellis No.3 Butterfly Pea Gin and Cushiedoos quinine-free Scottish Tonic Water to make our cupcakes. We love the deep, earthy floral tones in the gin which complements orange well. As Cushiedoos tonic is quinine-free it's not as bitter as other botanicals so knew it would also work well in the recipe.

It’s been a long time but the return of the Great British Bake Off this week has inspired us to get back into the kitchen and get some boozy baking done!

It’s hardly a showstopper but we thought we’d ease ourselves back into it with some Spiced Rum & Raisin Cookies.

We decided to go with Wester Spiced Rum as we love the full-bodied flavour of the spices, citrus zests and vanilla in it.

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Our boozy bake this month is the perfect recipe to make you feel warm inside on a cold, dark winter night. What's more, our choice of gin was inspired by Halloween too!

We've baked a Spiced Plum and Rhubarb Gin cake using Solway Spirits' Rhubarb Crumble Gin. We love the Rhubarb Crumble Gin (we normally drink with ginger ale) as it's as refreshing as it is warming and perfect for a cosy night in front of the fire. In addition, with it also being Halloween, we couldn't see past using a Solway Spirits gin given the eerie, gothic label design on the bottle.

Can you believe it’s almost the end of September already? It feels like only a few days ago since we were all basking in Scotland’s summer heatwave! Now that the leaves are beginning to change colour and the nights are slowly but surely beginning to draw in, this month we’re bringing you two cake recipes which are simple to bake but sure to impress!

Our first recipe, a G&T Drizzle Cake, is an ideal way to wave goodbye to summer and those summer days spent in the garden with your favourite tipple. It’s a light cake that’s straightforward to make but still packed full of your favourite gin and citrus fruits!

If you fancy something more autumnal and warm