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st. patrick's day cupcakes, v.3

i’ve made at least three versions of guinness cupcake (two in 2007 alone) since 2006 but i cannot for the life of me find any photographic evidence beyond the first posts in this tumble blog of said cupcakes.

this year’s iteration is probably the best - it was a genius move by the fine folks at nook & pantry to make the frosting a cream cheese one. extra hat tip to alicia for sending the recipe my way.

recipes for both the guinness cupcakes and bailey’s frosting can be found on the nook & pantry blog (here).

notes:

- i ended up making 24 cupcakes and about 12 mini cupcakes with the cupcake recipe. i used less than 1/4c of batter per regular cupcake but didn’t end up with paltry cupcakes.

- i’ve reposted the bailey’s frosting recipe below as i altered it - the recipe says there wasn’t enough frosting to frost 20-24 cupcakes. my alterations make the frosting less stiff (but not runny) and enough to frost the cupcakes i made with about 2/3c leftover. feel free to eyeball it - adding more sugar or bailey’s to taste. (one time i’m pretty sure i put almost a cup of bailey’s into the frosting. i was going for a REALLY booze-addled frosting. this one is more subtle, in large part due to the cream cheese).

Bailey’s Cream Cheese Frosting
adapted from nook & pantry

8oz. (1pkg) cream cheese, softened
4oz (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
3-4c confectioner’s sugar4 Tablespoons of Bailey’s Irish Cream (i used a minibar-sized bottle, which yielded just over 4Tbs)

cream butter and cream cheese until well combined. add confectioner’s sugar 1-2c at a time, allowing time to incorporate before adding more. when all the sugar has been added, pour in the bailey’s

update: burton cupcake print pants

for those (read: me) still wistfully thinking about picking up a pair of these “first layers”, don’t bother. i stopped into the burton store in NYC this weekend to check them out in person. they only carry the truly-hideous blue-green colored version and the cupcakes are rather ugly (no wonder there’s no “close-up” photo on the website!). i was disappointed but thankful i saved myself $30 (part of me secretly wanted to have the opportunity to hike up a skirt/pantleg and alert people to awesome cupcake-patterned long undies, though).

i did have to talk myself out of a brightly printed snowboarding jacket as (a) the last/first time i went snowboarding was about 5 years ago and (b) i’m trying to dress more like an adult and less like a teenager.

original post here.