recipe: guinness stout cupcakes

was making chocolate cupcakes for a b-day party on st. paddy's day. only seemed right that they were injected with a lil bit of booze. i snagged this Irish Car Bomb cupcake recipe from Red Shallot Kitchen.

ingredients list: 
- 1 cup Guinness beer
- 1 cup butter
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 & 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 2 large eggs
- 2/3 cup sour cream


to make: preheat oven to 350 degrees. line 24 cupcake tins with liners (or 60 or so mini cupcake liners). bring 1 cup of Guinness and 1 cup butter to simmer in a large saucepan over medium heat. add cocoa powder and whisk until mixture is smooth. set aside to cool.


whisk flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in large bowl and blend. using a mixer, beat eggs and sour cream in a large bowl. add Guinness butter mixture to the egg mixture and beat until just combined. add flour mixture little by little and stir until completely combined. pour into cupcake liners, filling 3/4 of the way full.

bake about 15-17 minutes if doing full sized cupcakes, or about 11 minutes to mini cupcakes, until a toothpick comes out clean. cool on a wire rack.


i iced most cupcakes with a vanilla icing, then when i ran out used chocolate ganache on the rest. the Bailey's frosting on the site sounded great, but i didn't test it out this time. 
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these cake out OK... they were not very sweet, but had a good flavor overall. i think next time i would add some chocolate chips so they have a little more chocolatey-ness to em. 5*****.