Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes and Irish Cream Frosting

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Happy St.Patricks Day !!!!!!


***recipe taken from here

Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes With Bailey's Frosting

Ingredients

    Cupcakes

    • 1 cup unsalted butter
    • 1 cup Guinness stout
    • 2⁄3; cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder, sifted
    • 1 cup light brown sugar
    • 1 teaspoon table salt
    • 2 cups all-purpose flour
    • 1 cup white sugar
    • 1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda
    • 2 eggs
    • ½ cup sour cream

    Frosting

    • ½ cup unsalted butter
    • 4 cups confectioners' sugar
    • 1 pinch table salt
    • 3 tablespoons irish cream ( Bailey's or Carolan's)
    • 1 tablespoon milk
    • green sprinkles

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F Grease 24-30 cupcake cups, or fill with paper liners.
  2. In a saucepan, heat the butter, Guinness, cocoa and brown sugar, whisking often, until the butter is melted and the mixture is smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
  3. Into the work bowl of a stand mixer (or into a large mixing bowl), sift together salt, flour, white sugar and baking soda. Add the cooled Guinness mixture and beat on medium for 1 minute. Add eggs and sour cream and beat on medium for 2 minutes or until smooth.
  4. Divide the batter evenly amongst the cupcake cups. Bake in preheated oven 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cake comes out clean. Cool in pan 20 minutes, then remove and transfer to a cooling rack until completely cooled.


notes~ 

* I used oil instead of butter for the batter, I did not have sour cream, so I used plain yogurt, and ended up using all white sugar, they were still fantastic :)
* for the frosting I used Carolans Irish Cream, and actually doubled the amounts for the frosting....thats only because I like to use my piping bag to frost them.

xo,Diana

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