Eating Your Drinks is the New Drinking Your Dinner

Tonight I made Guinness Cupcakes with Bailey's Irish Cream Frosting. Okay I made the cupcakes and my Mom made the frosting. I hate making frosting. I feel the same way about wrapping gifts -- I love to wrap them in paper but I hate the ribbon/bow process. I think I'm a substance over decoration kind of person . . . and/or just horribly lazy. Also, no one wants to live in my world of un-ribboned presents and un-frosted cupcakes. Anyway the recipe was from Food Network and the Frosting Recipe was from a blog called Whisk-Kid.

It came out well but the cupcakes are VERY VERY Stout-y

Frosting, styling and photo courtesy of my Mom.

Chocolate Stout Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa, plus more for dusting finished cupcakes
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups all-purposeflour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch fine salt
• 1 bottle stout beer (recommended: Guinness -- I used about 11 oz. of a larger bottle.)
• 1 stick butter, melted
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 3 large eggs
• 3/4 cup sour cream

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the cocoa, sugar, flour, baking soda, and salt.
In another medium mixing bowl, combine the stout, melted butter, and vanilla. Beat in eggs, 1 at time. Mix in sour cream until thoroughly combined and smooth. Gradually mix the dry ingredients into the wet mixture.

Divide the batter equally between cupcake pans, filling each 3/4 full. Use cupcake papers or grease your pan depending on preference. Bake for about 12 minutes and then rotate the pans. Bake another 12 to 13 minutes until risen, nicely domed, and set in the middle but still soft and tender. Cool before turning out.

Recipe from the Food Network -- Click HERE

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Simple Bailey's Buttercream

• 1 c (227 g) unsalted butter, room temp
• 1/2 cup (95 g) shortening
• 1 Tbsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 lbs (6 cups or 678 g) confectioner’s sugar
• About 4 Tbsp Bailey's Irish Cream, mint or other flavor

Cream together the butter and shortening until lightened, about 3 minutes. Add the vanilla and beat to combine. Add the powdered sugar in about 1 cup additions and beat well before adding the next portion. After all the sugar has been incorporated, begin adding the Bailey's, on tablespoon at a time, until you reach your desired consistency.

Recipe from Whisk-Kid -- Click HERE (at the bottom of the page)