Irish Whiskey, Guiness and Bailey's... car bombs? Nope, cupcakes. I found the recipe on smittenkitchen.com, yum! I tweeked it a little, by using a box chocolate cake and substituting the water with the guiness, using 1 egg and the amount of oil it called for. The frosting was made with the Bailey's, but, a word of warning, there was no way I could fit all of that powedered sugar into one stick of butter, I got maybe 2 cups of powedered sugar in before it crumbled, the frosting was extreemly stiff and it made way more than it was supposed to... maybe I read the recipe wrong :S. So there was guiness in the cake, the flavor mostly bakes out, the bailey's in the frosting, it was good, so where was the irish whiskey? In the chocolate truffle filling inside the cupcake! Need I say more? The whole thing was delicious.
For the truffle inside, smittenkitchen.com said to use a 1" round cookie cutter to cut a hole into the cupcake and then fill with a piping bag. I cut out the whole with a knife, being careful not to cut too far down. It worked well. I think a donut cutter would also work if you have one.
Anywas there was so much tastey frosting left over that I had to make sugar cookies to use it up. To make the frosting thinner I just zapped in in the microwave for about 10 seconds, then stirred in some milk. I let it cool and thicken a bit before throwing into the piping bag to decorate the cookes. But the cookies were very tastey as well. I added some coloring to the dough to make them a bit more spring like :D
Sugar cookie recipe:
Sugar cookie recipe:
This sugar cookie recipe is the one I grew up on. I remember growing up and my mom would make these cookies for christmas and we would decorate them every year. She got the recipe from Betty Crocker's Cooky Book. It just so happens that Nick's mom has it too, and uses the other sugar cookie recipe in the book. Anways Nick's mom found a reprint of the book and gave it to me for Christmas. I was very excited. So here is the recipe:
Mary's Sugar Cookes
1 1/2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1 cup butter or margarine
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. almond flavoring
2 1/2 cups Flour
1 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. cream of tarter
Mix sugar and butter. Add egg and flavorings; mix thoroughly. Measure flour by dipping method or by sifting. Stir dry ingredients together and blend in. Refrigerate 2 to 3 hours.
Heat oven to 375'. Divide dough in half and roll 3/16" thick on lightly floured pastry cloth. Cut with cooky cutter; sprinkle with sugar. Place on ligtly greased baking sheet. Bake 7 to 8 minutes., or until delicately golden. Makes 5 doz. 2 to 2 1/2" cookies.
Mary's Sugar Cookes
1 1/2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1 cup butter or margarine
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. almond flavoring
2 1/2 cups Flour
1 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. cream of tarter
Mix sugar and butter. Add egg and flavorings; mix thoroughly. Measure flour by dipping method or by sifting. Stir dry ingredients together and blend in. Refrigerate 2 to 3 hours.
Heat oven to 375'. Divide dough in half and roll 3/16" thick on lightly floured pastry cloth. Cut with cooky cutter; sprinkle with sugar. Place on ligtly greased baking sheet. Bake 7 to 8 minutes., or until delicately golden. Makes 5 doz. 2 to 2 1/2" cookies.
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