From the archives - originally posted March 2009:
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I made Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes - Guinness chocolate cupcakes with a Bailey's Irish Cream buttercream. They turned out amazing. The Guinness has a very distinct taste in the cupcake itself, so if you are not a huge fan of Guinness then I would leave it out. The Bailey's buttercream would be just as amazing on a plain chocolate cupcake (or piped straight from bag to mouth), but I'm glad I went all out with the Guinness for this batch. They were very festive, and a huge hit at the office - the perfect afternoon 'cocktail' to hold you over until the weekend.
Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes
Cupcake Ingredients:
1 cup Guiness
1 stick, plus 1 tbs unsalted butter
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
2 cups dark brown sugar
3/4 cup sour cream
2 eggs
1 tbs vanilla extract
2 cups flour
2 1/2 tsp baking soda
Cupcake Preparation:
1. Preheat the oven to 350; line a muffin tin with cupcake liners.
2. Combine the Guiness and the butter, chopped into 1-inch chunks, in a large sauce pan, and heat to melt the butter.
3. Remove from heat, and whisk in the cocoa and sugar.
4. In a bowl, whisk the sour cream and the eggs and vanilla, then add to the beer mixture.
5. Sift together the flour and baking soda, and fold in the batter.
6. Pour into muffin molds and bake or 25 minutes, or until inserted cake tester comes out clean. Let stand 10 minutes, remove from muffin tin, and cool completely on a rack.
Frosting Ingredients:
1 stick of unsalted butter, room temperature
3 cups confectioners' sugar
Bailey's Irish Cream
Jameson Irish Whiskey
Frosting Preparation:
1. Put the stick of room-temperature butter in a large mixing bowl and beat at medium-to-high speed for a few minutes.
2. Add a few short glugs of Bailey's and a dash of Jameson, and mix at low speed.
3. Gradually spoon confectioners' sugar into the bowl, mixing on low speed.
4. Pipe onto cooled cupcakes.
11 comments:
I am making the Martha Stewart Stout cupcakes!
Yummy! I love seeing things that mix two guilty pleasures! I'm following you now, can't wait to see more sweet treats.
Cupcakes and my favorite beer? Sign me up!
I am loving the idea of these cupcakes! I'm not a huge beer fan, but mixed in to some chocolate cupcakes I think I could totally handle! YUM
saw a review of Martha's Stout Cupcakes recipe on http://cupcakelab.wordpress.com it was not favorable.
Good to know about Martha's recipe - the good news is that this one is nothing like the one reviewed. There is no molasses or unfavorable spices that Cupcake Lab was turned off by.
I'd imagine the sour cream in this recipe helps combat the dryness.
I love Saint Patrick's day because there are always some amazing cupcakes recipes for grown ups around the blogsphere. These ones look fantastic!
Ooooh- how festive and lovely! This sounds so nice, I am going to bookmark this for sure!
Have wonderful St. Patrick's Day!!
Awesome! I made similar ones a couple years back, too, and my fiance has been requesting them again ever since. Guess I should get on that for St. Patrick's Day!
Sues
yummy! looking forward to trying these out :) anyone know how many cupcakes this recipe makes?? thanks!!
Made these for St. Patty's. They're definitely good, but I have to say I slightly prefer the version I've used for the past two years - http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/01/car-bomb-cupcakes/ - that slightly differs in some ingredient amounts and uses white instead of dark brown sugar (I've made that one both with and without the ganache filling - works well either way). Regardless, both recipes are wonderful and well worth trying.
And oh how I wish we Americans would grow up and realize that there's a larger context to the world we live in. The drink these cupcakes are named after has such an unnecessarily repugnant name.
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