A friend in the UK sent me this recipe for Chocolate Guiness Cupcakes a while back, saying that they were really popular in London.
I first had my doubts. For I am not really a fan of the bitter tasting Guiness. The only time I ever had a bottle of Guiness (with mouthfuls of Kampai to cover the bitter taste, weird combo, I know) resulted in me getting a lil tipsy and my trusty girl friend grabbing onto my arm to guide me back to the car.
But, the recipe called for chocolate AND cream cheese frosting! Which makes it awfully tempting indeed. So, when I received an invite to a friend’s birthday get together, I knew this would be just the perfect chance to try out the recipe.
Rushed home Friday evening and baked away…
Took me about one a half hours to get everything together, including cooling the cupcakes and frosting them. Found my cream cheese frosting a little too runny though. Perhaps I need to cut down on the liquid portion a wee bit.
The verdict? Everyone loved them! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Rich chocolatey yummyness with just a hint of Guiness, topped with sweet cream cheese frosting… bliss!
And now…the recipe for these delicious morsels, taken from this site (the owner of UK’s first mobile chocolate bar):
Doesn’t a mobile chocolate bar sound really cool?! 🙂
Ingredients:
250ml Guiness (I bought a 320ml can, and didn’t want the remainder to go to waste, so I added in the whole can!)
250g slightly salted butter
80g cocoa
400g caster sugar
142ml pot of sour cream
2 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
270g plain flour
2 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
Cream Cheese Frosting:
300g cream cheese
150g icing sugar
150ml double cream
Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
2. Line 2 X 12 hole muffin tins
3. Pour the Guiness into a large saucepan. Add butter in small pieces and heat until it all melts together. Turn off heat.
4. Whisk in cocoa and sugar.
5. Beat sour cream, eggs and vanilla extract. Mix into the pan.
6. Finally, whisk in flour and bicarbonate of soda, little by little to avoid lumps of flour in the batter.
7. Divide the mixture between muffin tins using either a piping bag or a jug as the mixture is pretty wet.
8. Place muffin tins in oven and bake for 18-20mins or until they are nicely puffed up.
9. Cool and racks and remove muffins from the tins when they’re firm/cool.
10. To make cream cheese frosting, whisk together cream cheese, icing sugar and double cream with an electronic whisk. Whisk until you get a good, thick consistency.
11. Ice the cakes – nice big, billowing slathers to give the illusion of a small, sweet, edible Guiness.
look terribly sinful!
wow guiness cupcakes…wonder if there is Heineken cupcakes eh? hehehe
Hm…you’d just reminded me the fact that I havent been out drinking with friends for ages…haih…
You were not joking! There really is such a thing.
You have made urself desireable to all the guinness drinking men out there. 🙂
thats kinda cool! didnt knw that could work out..
Oooh… I wonder how alcoholic these are? 😉
zewt – it probably IS very sinful. very rich cake! 🙂
jian – hmmm heineken cupcakes ah… havent heard before. can be a worthy kitchen experiment! lol
adrian – lol. how come still no long line of men lining up outside my doorstep?! muahaha… siao oredi me! 😛
lotsofcraving – yeah i was very pleased with the results..should give it a try sometime 🙂
kenny – not very alcoholic. this recipe makes about 20 cupcakes…so one small can on guiness spread over 20 cupcakes…not very alcoholic at all 🙂
walio this is so good, must be delicious as I am a Guiness fan too!
Very creative!!! Wonder kids can eat or not??
BBO – this recipe should be easy peasy for you guys! hope you’ll like them. 🙂
new kid on the blog – hmmm…i think kids can eat. the guiness taste is not really that strong. one can of guiness spread over 20 cupcakes…so each cupcake should have very little alcohol content. 🙂
wow…this recipe is so creative!!
Very cute! :)and inventive with Guiness.
where did you buy the cream cheese/which brand is it? Can rarely find cream cheese…or I seem to look at the wrong places?
These look fantastic. My hubby and his family are big Guiness fans and I love chocolate and cream cheese 🙂 I can’t wait to give this a try! Guess I need to find a site that converts to standard. I wish I could find more metric measuring utensils here.