A Literal Irish Car Bomb

Top o' the mornin' to ya!  Let me preface this entry by saying that my baking this past evening was not a success.  I tried to do something delightful and St. Patrick's Day related, and it kinda blew up in my face a bit.  Firstly, if you decide to follow this recipe you will almost certainly end up with some rock cupcakes that taste like beer.  On that note, at least they came out pretty, and the frosting was goodish.

Artistic

Blarney Stone Cupcakes (i.e. chocolate stout Guiness draught cupcakes)
adapted (loosely... very loosely) from Food Network

3/4 cup hot cocoa powder (poor choices)

2 cups sugar

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

Pinch fine salt

1 bottle tall can stout Guiness Draught beer (poorer choices)

1 stick butter, melted

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

3 large eggs

3/4 cup sour cream

Oh, hello poop

Such poor choices

Okay, I am not going to write the steps because, as my friend and I were making these cupcakes, we (or rather I) did a poor job of following the directions.  I used hot cocoa powder instead of unsweetened cocoa powder, and draught dark beer instead of stout.  Stout is the only kind that should be used for baking- the end.  In addition, I don't really recommend following this person's recipe from foodnetwork.com because his recipe makes the cupcakes very runny (and the frosting he makes is runny and terrible as well... BAD RECIPE).  During the prep process I decided to add more flour and hot cocoa powder because I wanted to thicken up the batter.  Although the batter did thicken, once the cupcakes came out of the oven, they turned into little muffiny weapons.  Epic fail texture-wise, but flavor-wise they were okay.  At least the frosting was okay. Live and learn, people.

Bailey's and Cream Cheese Frosting

3-4 tablespoons Bailey's Irish Liqueur

1 (8 oz.) package of cream cheese, softened

1 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar

 

So you just mix everything together in a mixer for a couple minutes... that's about it.  I screwed up.  I'm sorry.  So I made something pretty instead:

 Yay!  Well, maybe I should branch out from cooking and have a good long hard think Winnie the Pooh style.  Goodnight... er good morning.  Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!