Recipe: St Patrick’s Day Guinness Cupcakes

Recipe: St Patrick’s Day Guinness Cupcakes

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Ingredients

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

Instructions

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