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Old 04-25-2015, 12:50 PM
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a standard 'shot' 1.5 oz in America is 9 teaspoons of measured liquid.

A typical frosting recipe calls for 2 teaspoons of extract. For ease of math let's just say 8 teaspoons is a shot - err conservatively also.

Let's go with 40% alcohol in extract. A shot of 40% alcohol - 80 proof would provide 3.6 teaspoons of pure alcohol.

However, 2 teaspoons of extract at 40% is 25% of 40% of 9 or 8.

That comes out to .8 of a tsp of alcohol diluted and spread out over a whole cake. Let's assume you get 8 slices from a cake. That is 1/8 of .8 of a teaspoon of alcohol ingested. Or .125 of .8 of a teaspoon of alcohol. That is .1 of a teaspoon of alcohol per slice of cake.
I'm guessing one would have to eat a hundred pieces of cake to catch a buzz.

You can have your cake and eat it too.
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