Recipe: St Patrick’s Day Guinness Cupcakes

Guinness Cupcakes for St Patrick’s Day

Chocolate and Guinness make these cupcakes moist and delicious. Ideal for a Father’s Day gift as well as to celebrate St Patrick’s Day.

Easy to make. These take around 15 mins prep as well as 25 mins to bake so a quick and simple present.

Recipe: St Patrick’s Day Guinness Cupcakes

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Ingredients

  

• 250 ml Guinness
• 250 g Butter
• 400 g Golden caster sugar
• 2 Eggs large
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract
• 140 ml Buttermilk
• 280 g Plain white flour
• 2 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
• ½ tsp Baking powder
• 3 tbsp Cocoa powder
• For the icing
• 50 g Butter
• 300 g Icing sugar
• 125 g Cream cheese full fat

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 170°C (150°C fan, gas mark 3)
• Line cupcake tine with 12 cases.
• Pour Guinness into a saucepan.
• Add butter, heat gently and stir until the butter has melted.
• Remove from the heat and add the cocoa powder and sugar.
• Mix well.
• In a separate bowl add vanilla extract and buttermilk.
• Add this mixture to saucepan.
• Mix.
• In a large bowl, sift together flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder.
• Add saucepan contents to large bowl.
• Mix well using an electric whisk. i
• Spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases
• Bake for approx 25 mins.
• Remove cakes from the oven.
• Leave the cakes on a cooling wire to cool completely.
• Mix together the butter and icing sugar .
• Add cream cheese.
• Mix well.
• Spoon onto top of cakes.
• EAT!