My friend Carly and I had been eyeing this recipe for months, without a good occasion to make it. My birthday celebration at a beer garden turned out to be the perfect excuse.
Carly baked the cupcakes (which have Guinness baked into the cake) the night before my birthday, and in the afternoon on my birthday we, together with Lael, filled and frosted the cupcakes. Together with the filling (dark chocolate whiskey ganache) and the frosting (made with Bailey's Irish cream), the cupcakes are really out of this world.
As a former professional cupcake decorator, I swirled the frosting on each cupcake, and then we sprinkled cocoa powder on top. We still had a lot of ganache left over, so we squeezed a dollop of ganache in the center of the swirled frosting from a piping bag with a ridged tip, and it looked like a little chocolate flower.
Not only were they beautiful, they were DELICIOUS. A lot of work to make by yourself, but since we made it into a group activity it didn't feel like work at all. And they were the perfect dessert to bring to a beer garden (although when eaten with beer, they tasted a lot less alcoholic than they did when we were assembling them earlier - the taste of actual beer definitely overpowered the subtleties. But no less delicious - they got rave reviews from my birthday guests!)
Here is the recipe for car bomb cupcakes if you want to try them out yourself.
Cheers!
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