I'm not keen on the name. Why Irish Car Bomb? I'm also not keen on the drink. Whiskey and Baileys in a shot glass, dropped into Guiness. It has be consumed really quickly or it will curdle. And when it curdles, it's really really gross.
But as a cupcake? Anything with Whiskey, Guiness and Baileys in the ingredients has to be good. Right? I was surpised that we had all the ingredients in the cupboard already. Well almost. We didn't have any Jameson, so I used Glenfiddich. Yes, I know one is Irish and the other is Scottish. Get over it!
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 (I used 6 Tbsps)
Jameson Irish Whiskey (I used 2 Tbsps)
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.
I finally got to use the new mixing attachment that Barb gave me for Christmas. It worked really well.
So what did we think? Nom, Nom, Nom. These are really good. Hubby wanted to know if he was going to get drunk from eating them. The Bailey's is really noticable. 4 Tbsps might have been enough, 6 was probably overkill. Also it makes the icing quite runny. I got 21 cupcakes out of the recipe. An odd number I know. I think I put too much mix in some of them.
One cupcake with icing is worth 9 points plus. Hubby will have to eat the rest of these. Good thing he thought it was tasty.
(the recipe I used came from here)