Description
Chocolate Coffee Cupcakes with Irish Baileys Frosting to get you in the Holiday spirit. The chocolate and coffee cupcakes are so moist and pairs incredibly with Baileys.
Ingredients
Chocolate Coffee Cupcakes
- 1 1/3 cups flour, 170g*
- 1 1/8 cups granulated sugar, 235g
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 stick butter, 115g
- 4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder, 40g
- 1/2 cup strong coffee, 125ml
- 1/3 cup buttermilk, 80g. Room temperature. (Norwegian: kulturmelk)
- 1 egg + 1 extra yolk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Irish Baileys Frosting
- 2 cups powdered sugar, 270g
- 1/3 cups room temperature butter, 90g
- 2 tbsp Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur, or something similar
- 2 tbsp instant coffee granules, mixed with 1-2 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp milk, optional
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180C (350F).
- Dry ingredients: In a large bowl, mix together the dry ingredients; flour, baking soda, salt, and sugar.
- Cocoa-butter mixture: Melt butter in a saucepan at low, then combine with cocoa powder. When this is smooth, pour in the coffee.
- Beat until smooth: Pour in the cocoa-butter mixture and 1 egg and 1 egg yolk and combine at low speed. Add the buttermilk and vanilla extract, and beat until smooth.
- Bake: Pour mixture into cupcake liners (about 20 regular muffin-sized). Bake in the oven for around 17-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with just a few moist crumbs.
- Make the frosting*: Beat all the ingredients together, but make sure the liquid ingredients are room temperature. Combining the hot coffee, with the other cold ingredients will usually make it room temperature quickly. Spread on cupcakes as you wish.
Notes
* I always recommend using a kitchen scale when baking.
* * If you want more frosting, you could easily double the recipe. And if you have too much, cover and set in the fridge or even freeze for a later occasion.
This frosting technically has too much liquid and not enough butter, but I did not want to leave anything out because it is one of the BEST frostings ever and the flavor will not be right if reducing the liquid and increasing the butter. A more correct ratio would be about 2 tbsp liquid and 135g butter, but this frosting still holds its shape rather well - trust me!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Inactive Time: 0 hours
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 grams
- Calories: 219
- Sodium: 160
- Fat: 9.4
- Saturated Fat: 5.7
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 33.5
- Fiber: 0.9
- Protein: 2
- Cholesterol: 42