These Guinness Cupcakes with sweet cream chocolate frosting are to die for, and such an easy recipe to make! Not one for the kids as they are made with everyone's favorite Irish beer, but such a perfect dessert for that adult St. Patrick's Day Party!
I was so excited to be invited to explore Ireland a couple of months ago. It's such a beautiful country, and everything I had heard about the food was wrong! I truly had some of the best meals I've ever eaten while there. I brought back a few recipes I can't wait to try. If I can adequately recreate them, I'll share them with you!
Ireland is about comfort food - like shepherds pie, stews, and those potato pancakes I could eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But Ireland has come a long way from only serving those traditional foods. The seafood is so fresh, I wanted to order it every meal!
World-famous chefs are popping up in Ireland all the time. In fact, meeting celebrity chef Kevin Dundon really started me on this journey of cooking Irish food. I'll be sharing more about that soon. For now, enjoy these cupcakes!
Guinness Cupcakes
Begin by preheating the oven to 350º and lining cupcake pan with shamrock themed cupcake papers.
Heat the butter, Guinness, cocoa, and sugar in a small saucepan, whisking until the mixture is smooth. Set aside.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients, flour, sugar, soda, salt, and the cooled Guinness mixture.
Mix on medium speed for a minute or until well combined and creamy.
Add your eggs and mix until well blended.
Divide the batter evenly into the cupcake liners and bake for 21 minutes.
Directions for frosting:
In a standing mixer, combine all ingredients and mix on low. If the mixture starts to look like rocks, add a tablespoon of heavy whipping cream. Mix until stiff peaks form. If it's too runny, add 1/2 C powdered sugar.
Once you have the right consistency, frost your cupcakes.
Other Recipes with Guinness
I enjoy cooking with Guinness. It makes a wonderful addition to soups and stews, too. I made this Guinness Sauce after tasting it in a restaurant in Orlando years ago, and now I use it to make Guinness Irish Beer Ribs. The sauce is so good, you will want to keep a jar in your fridge at all times!
Looking for comfort food? There's nothing quite like these Guinness Beer Braised Short Ribs. They make the perfect Sunday supper!
Guinness Cupcakes with Sweet Cream Chocolate Frosting
Ingredients
Cupcake Ingredients
- 1 C butter
- 2/3 C Hershey cocoa
- 2 C sugar split
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 cups flour
- 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 C Guinness
- 2 eggs
Frosting Ingredients
- 1 C sweet cream butter unsalted, softened
- 1/4 C Hershey cocoa
- 2 C powder sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3-4 T heavy whipping cream.
Instructions
- Cupcake Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line cupcake liners with shamrock themed cupcake papers.
- Heat the butter, Guinness, cocoa and sugar in a small sauce pan and whisk until the mixture is smooth. Set aside.
- Medium mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients, flour, sugar, soda, salt, and the cooled Guinness mixer and mix on medium speed for a minute or until combined.
- Add eggs and mix more until incorporated
- Divide batter evenly into the liners and bake for 21 minutes.
- Chocolate frosting ingredients
- Frosting Directions
- In a standing mixer, combine all ingredients and mix on low.
- If mixture starts to look like rocks, add a tablespoon of heavy whipping cream.
- Mix until stiff peaks form.
- If too runny, add 1/2 C powder sugar.
- Frost cupcakes
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Looking for more St. Patrick's Day desserts? Check out this roundup of 26 St. Pat's Day Desserts!
Nancy Burgess
These cupcakes look delicious thanks for sharing this.
Kara Marks
These cupcakes sound wonderful--interesting recipe. Thanks!
Lisa Ellen Niver
YUM! I also love Guinness bread! I was there for St. Patricks Day in Dublin in 2014!
Kelly Stilwell
Girl, you are my hero! Trying hard to follow in your footsteps!!
Cathy Lawdanski
So cute and delicious looking! My husband would love them.
Kat (The Baking Explorer)
They look delicious!
Helen at the Lazy Gastronome
Oh my - how amazingly delicious they must be! Thanks for sharing at the What's for Dinner party!
Maria | passion fruit, paws and peonies
These look utterly irresistible! Happy St Patricks day! x
Sandra L Garth
I'm looking forward to these. Thanks for the recipe and great pictures.
Of Goats and Greens
Definitely looks like St. Pats here! They sound tasty; my brother would love!!!
Thanks for sharing at Fiesta Friday!
Miz Helen
Your Cupcakes will be a perfect treat for the season! Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with us at Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen
Antonia (Zoale)
Love the decorations! These look wonderful. Thank you for sharing over at Fiesta Friday!
Karren Haller
Your cupcake look amazing, how fun for St Patrick's!!
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Teresa
Mmmm! I want one...now! These look so good. Thank you for sharing with us on Party in Your PJ's.
Theresa
Oh yummy! I made a similar recipe years ago. Glad I spotted this. Thanks for sharing your post with us at the Inspiration Spotlight party @DearCreatives. Pinned & sharing.
Beverly
Thee cupcakes look so yummy and so perfect for St Patrick's day. That frosting looks amazing too.
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Kerryanne
Looks like the perfect St Patrick's Day sweet treat Kelly!!
Thank you for sharing this recipe at 'Create, Bake, Grow & Gather' on Shabby Art Boutique this week. I'm delighted to be featuring it at tonight's party and pinning too!
Nina
These cupcakes look pretty and give me a reason to try cooking with Guinness. Sadly i missed this for st. paddy's day but a good cupcake can be eaten anytime. Thanks for sharing.
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Kelly Stilwell
They are good anytime, Nina! Enjoy!
Cindy
May I ask what decorating tip that you used for the frosting? They look so perfect!
Nellie Stubbs
This is perfection! I know what I'm making for the next St Patrick's.
Kelly Stilwell
They are so good, Nellie! Enjoy!