Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes

Disclaimer: Better Cake Than Never in no way condones the actions of the IRA and I appologize if the name offends. However: This is the name of the cupcake and will remain so for association purposes towards the cocktail.

My husband asked if I could make some of these for his office for a potluck (and free advertising for me). I found this recipe at browneyedbaker.com. These cupcakes are not for children :) I started with the batter obviously, which has a cup of Guinness in it. It looked so smooth and beautiful.

 

Then I mixed up the other ingredients, added this to the egg-sour cream mixture and added they dry ingredients. I folded in the dry ingredients like the recipe said but it was extremely lumpy and gross looking. So I whisked for a few minutes which added some air bubbles, but eliminated the lumps.

 

The air bubbles went away after a few minutes in the cupcake pan. I wish she had said an actual amount to add into each cup, because I ended up having alot of batter left over after using an regular size ice cream scoop. So I used a smaller portion scoop for the rest and ended up with too little to fill all of them the same amount. When I baked them, the center of the cupcake never pouffed up like normal cupcakes. I had to check them over and over especially since they were all different amounts.

 

I used Jameson for the whiskey Ganache, because its pretty much the best Irish whiskey there is :). The ganache came out great. It tasted great and was really shiny. The recipe made way to much ganache for the amount of cupcakes (24) I made. I still have about a 1 1/2 cups left after filling all of them pretty generously.

I cored the cupcakes with a large star tip. It was a little difficult because the cupcake insides kept sticking inside the tip.  It didn't take too long and afterwords I was left with a bunch of cupcake centers to snack on :)

The icing turned out great. It looked great and tasted great.

I used the same tip as browneyebaker because I loved the way it looked. I also sprinkled them with a tiny bit of green sparkles just to add a little something extra. I snuck one out and tasted it, and boy! They were delicous. 

 

I'll definitely make these again. The only issue I have is they don't come out of the wrappers very easily, but I don't know how I could fix that. Any suggestions? 

Since I had so much extra ganache, I decided to make some more truffles. This ganache hardened up much better than the last one.

The didn't scoop perfectly, but they kept their shape enough and weren't so incredibly sticky so I could actually smooth them out after I scooped them.

Once again, I had to add shortening to the chocolate. This was before doing anything and it still wasn't smooth enough to coat anything. I don't know whats wrong with these Wilton candy melts but they're not being my friend lately. I still managed to get all my truffles coated and they look super cute this time.

I decided to add the little hearts because I didn't want to be all lame and do the same thing I did with the last batch :P

Success!!