Baileys Frosted Cupcakes

February 27, 2010 in Recipes | 1 comment

Find yourself hard to resist cupcakes??

Always had a thing for Baileys Irish Coffee??

If the answer is yes to both, you gotta try this simple recipe, only takes 20 minutes to prepare and another 20 to bake, and variable time to decorate *wink*

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170g flour

140g sugar (actual recipe says 170g but I feel 140g is just nice when eaten with the icing)

80 g butter (actual recipe is 125g so my cupcake is abit dry *sniff*)

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

4 tbsp milk

60 g chocolate chips (maybe white choc chips might be better aesthetically as it doesn’t stand out so much)

Blend flour, sugar, and butter in a blender until smooth. You can also use an electric mixer. Add eggs, vanilla extract and milk. Fold in white chocolate and mix well. Fill up cups half to 3/4 full.
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Preheat oven to 150°C.

Divide batter between 12 cake cases and bake for about 15-20 minutes. Watch the cakes carefully so that they do not overbake and burn.

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Baileys icing:
50 g butter (i think 50g is abit too much icing cos it turned out watery and oily cos i took too long to decorate it)
2 tbsp Baileys
60 g icing sugar
Combine butter with Baileys, and slowly add the icing sugar, beating until smooth and creamy.

Spread the icing roughly over the warm cakes. For the dark colour icing, i added cocoa powder..

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ENJOY!

the verdict?

i suppose its quite yummy for the first attempt.. but several areas need improvement

1. the cupcake was delicious when fresh from the oven, but it got hard once it cooled.. anybody has any suggestions to make a light a fluffy cupcake?? baking soda or self raising flour perhaps??

2. the icing was too watery, maybe too much butter or Baileys with too little icing sugar??

*scratch head*

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  1. Cialis’s avatar

    Cialis on March 10, 2010 at 4:00 pm

    uzhpC0 Excellent article, I will take note. Many thanks for the story!