He has to present his senior design project to his professors, a project I may add that he's been working on for the better part of a semester. So to celebrate this momentous occasion, I made him (and his fellow seniors) Irish Car Bomb cupcakes! I chose to make these partly because we had a single bottle of Guinness in the fridge and also because after this semester these hardworking seniors need hard liquor.
Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes
1 C unsalted butter
1 C Guinness beer (I used the Extra Stout)
2/3 C cocoa powder, sifted
1 C brown sugar
1 tbsp salt
2 C cake flour
1 C sugar
1 1/4 tbsp baking soda
2 eggs
1/16 C water
1/16 C Bailey's Irish Cream
1/16 C heavy whipping cream
1/16 C milk
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a saucepan over medium-low heat, melt butter and combine with Guinness, cocoa powder and brown sugar whisking frequently. Remove from heat to cool to room temperature after combined.
In a separate bowl, sift flour, salt, sugar and baking powder and combine. After the Guinness mixture is cooled, add in and beat with electric beater for 1 minute. Add in 2 eggs, water, Bailey's, heavy whipping cream and water. Beat additional 2 minutes.
Divide batter into lined cupcake pans, fill liners about 2/3 of the way full. Bake for 20 minutes adding more time as needed until a toothpick can be removed cleanly.
Let cool on wire rack completely before icing.
I was going to make Bailey's Irish Cream buttercream to compliment these boozy concoctions, but I thought that might be frowned upon on a closed alcohol campus, so instead I'm making my tried and true vanilla buttercream (see my "Baking (Again)" blog for recipe).
I bought myself some reusable pastry bags and tips to be fancy so I'm having fun trying them out.
Hope you missed me during my hiatus, readers and I hope you are enjoying your end of school/start of summer, or if you're a working stiff like me, just being hot and sweaty.
Yummers!
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