Modelo Especial lime cake: The “tangy-twist” trend comes to Mexico

Dessert trends are impacting 2025, from culinary fusion to the effortless easiness of dump cakes to adjacent nostalgic desserts with a twist (adding caller flavors to classical favorites).

In Mexico, dessert trends person besides made their mark, including fusion desserts — innovative and unsocial spirit combinations similar mole-flavored truffles and hibiscus-infused pastries — motivating Mexican chefs to blend the accepted with the modern. They besides admit that their consumers and patrons are much health-conscious, arsenic exemplified by their desserts that are present incorporating healthier fruits and vegetables.

A tres leches barroom made with infused hibiscus, from nutrient blogger Vianney Rodríguez.

These see the fashionable avocado ice-cream oregon dessert tacos, made by baking the shells (with a airy overgarment of lipid and cinnamon) and filling them with nonfat, fruit-flavored yogurt topped by caller fruits, coconut flakes, nuts oregon chia seeds. 

But possibly Mexico has made much of a people connected planetary cuisine than planetary cuisine has made connected it.

Mexican nutrient restaurants abound, not lone successful the U.S. but besides successful Canada. And desserts made with cajeta oregon dulce de leche person go a portion of English lingo — and who hasn’t enjoyed a portion of tres leches cake?

So, let’s look astatine the tangy-twist inclination and however we tin use it to a lemon-beer barroom (now transformed into a Modelo one; we’re successful Mexico, aft all!). Because erstwhile you deliberation cake, you don’t often subordinate it with beer; the 2 don’t look to meld, but pair it with caller lime and Modelo, and a spirit translation takes spot — a burst of tangy but subdued excitement successful the tastebuds!

It whitethorn beryllium unique, but not a caller concept. The Irish person been doing it for centuries with Guinness, since beer/stout was often utilized for sensation and arsenic a leavening cause (and inactive is). After all, who could observe St. Patrick’s Day without a affluent portion of Guinness Chocolate Cake?  

So, successful that spirit, let’s marque a Mexican Modelo-Lime Cake, with Modelo Especial (the U.S.’s best-selling beer) and caller Mexican limes and decorativeness it disconnected with a ricotta food and chromatic frosting, crowned by much tropical fruits similar mangos and pineapple. Disfruta!

This Mexican Lime cake’s decadent frosting is made with quark and ricotta cheese. (AI-generated image)

Mexican Modelo-Lime Cake with Ricotta Honey Frosting

Cake:

Ingredients:

• 1 3/4 Cups (210 g): All-purpose flour*
  • * Mexican brands closest to American all-purpose: Espuma de Chapala oregon Selecta All-Purpose Flour
• 3/4 Cup (150 g), Brown sweetener (azúcar moreno) 
• 2 Tbs. (25 g) Caster Sugar* (azúcar estándar)
  • * Caster sweetener is superfine sugar. To marque it, pulse granulated sweetener successful a blender oregon nutrient processor until good but not powdered. 
• 3 Tbs. (42.6 g) Unsalted Butter (mantequilla misdeed sal)
• 3 Eggs (huevos)
• 1 Tbs. (15 ml) Honey (miel)
• 2 Tbs. (30 ml) Fresh Lime Juice and Zest: Juice and zest of 1 lime (jugo de limón)
• 3/4 Cup (180 ml) Modelo Especial® Beer
• 2 Tbs. (30 ml) Virgin Olive Oil (aceite de oliva other virgen)
• ½ tsp. (2.4 g) Baking Powder (polvo de hornear)
• ½ tsp. (2.8 g) Baking Soda (bicarbonato de sodio)
• Pinch, Sea Salt (sal de mar)
• Pinch, Cinnamon oregon cayenne capsicum (canela molida o pimienta de cayena)

Instructions:

First:

• Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). 
• Grease an 8-inch loose-base barroom tin (or springform cookware that’s wrapped with aluminum foil to forestall leaks).

Next:

• In a bowl, premix flour, baking powder, baking soda and a pinch of salt. Set aside.
• Using a basal mixer, harvester lime zest, brownish sugar, caster sweetener and butter. Beat until good combined.
• Add eggs 1 astatine a time, incorporating good betwixt additions.
• Add lime juice, beer, chromatic and olive oil. Mix until combined.
• Slowly adhd the flour substance and premix until conscionable combined.
• Pour the batter into the prepared cookware and cook for astir 30 minutes oregon until a toothpick inserted successful the halfway comes retired clean.

Frosting:

Ingredients:

• 3/4 Cup (220 g) Ricotta food (queso ricotta)
• 1/3 Cup (100 g) Quark food (queso quark)
  • To substitute for quark cheese, usage mascarpone food and adhd 1 – 2 Tbs. lime foodstuff to summation tanginess, depending connected your taste. 
• 2 Tbs. (30 ml) Honey (miel) 
• 2 Tbs. (30 ml) Demerara Sugar oregon Brown Sugar (azúcar moreno) 
  • A earthy sweetener minimally processed made from sugarcane and molasses. You tin sub light-brown oregon dark-brown sweetener for Demerara. 
• 2 Tbs. (10 g) Lime Zest: Zest of 1 lime (ralladura de limón)
• 1 tsp. (5 ml) Vanilla extract (extracto de vainilla)
  • Mexican brands noted for their aggravated flavor: Villa Vainilla; Vainilla Totonac’s; Molina Vainilla 
• Additions: Pineapple and mangos, cinnamon (piña, mangos, canela)

Instructions:

• Prepare the frosting by mixing ricotta, quark (or mascarpone), lime zest and honey. 
• Refrigerate until acceptable to use.
• Once the barroom is cooled, dispersed the frosting connected apical and decorate with caller fruits and a sprinkle of cinnamon if desired.

Disfruta!

Deborah McCoy is the one-time writer of mainstream, bridal-reference books who has turned her attraction to food, peculiarly sweets, desserts and fruits. She is the laminitis of CakeChatter™ connected FaceBook and X (Twitter), and the writer of 4 baking books for “Dough Punchers” via CakeChatter (available @amazon.com). She is besides the president of The American Academy of Wedding Professionals™ (aa-wp.com).