Chocolate Guinness® Cupcakes with Irish Cream Frosting

If you're a lover of chocolate, stout beer and Irish cream, then these are the cupcakes for you! Made them for a co-worker's birthday and they were a huge hit...not a crumb left behind. I took previous advice and made them full size, not mini. They made approximately 18. I also added a bit less butter in the batter as was suggested and it had no negative impact. The icing was too sweet for my liking, but it didn't seem to faze anyone else! I'm making another batch today and am going to try peanut butter stout this time for a chocolate, peanut butter flavor. Stay tune!

What delicious mini cupcakes! Really fantastic! The cupcakes are some of the lightest and fluffiest I have ever had! Truly great with a strong chocolate-stout flavor and a perfectly soft texture. I think next time I make them I would use 1 cup sugar because they were just a touch sweet for my tastes. I also only used 3/4 cup softened butter in the cupcakes---1 1/4 cup just seemed like a lot to me (especially with only 1 1/4 cups flour in the recipe too). They turned out great, and I would definitely use 3/4 cup butter again in the future. The frosting was also pretty tasty! A bit sweet, but I added some salt to it, and that helped. I also didn't have quite enough to generously frost the 64 mini cupcakes I got out of this recipe, so I made another 1/4 batch and that covered them. My only minor ding to the recipe is that I wish that they were called "Chocolate Guinness Mini-Cupcakes" as I originally thought the recipe was for standard cupcakes. This really doesn't make much difference to how fantastic they are, but it would be a more helpful, in my opinion. I found they also needed 11-13 minutes to bake depending on how full you filled the mini muffin cups. Either way, great recipe! Thank you!

was very good

These came out amazing! I will be making these again.

I followed the recipe exactly but baked them in full sized cupcake tins in paper liners and they were very good. It made almost 2 dozen. The cake portion didn’t hold together as well as I had expected but they were still yummy. Way more frosting than needed to frost them tho.