Posted on 10/11/2009 6:32:14 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Beer? Chocolate? Cupcakes?
Yes, yes, and yes: say hello to Trophy Cupcakes' limited-edition flavor of the month for October: the Chocolate Stout Cupcake with Caramel Stout Buttercream! Here's the 411, per the owner Jennifer Shea:
Made this season with Hale's Cream Stout, our Chocolate Stout cupcake is topped with Caramel Stout Buttercream and a stout caramel drizzle. A cupcake made with beer? Absolutely! The flavors from the roasted and chocolate malts in this stout match so well with our Valrhona Chocolate cupcake…and the caramel made from this beer makes an unbelievably delicious buttercream. Even burly guys (who would usually not be caught dead eating a cupcake) have become die-hard fans of Trophy Cupcakes over this flavor! It was such a huge hit this past Fathers Day that we just couldn't wait another year!
Every Wednesday and Saturday in the month of October, we will feature our Chocolate Stout Cupcake at all three locations!
Beer not your thing? Well, happily there are some other seasonal flavors on the horizon as well:
Candied Yam returns in November--a sweet yam and roasted pecan cupcake topped with our hand torched marshmallow meringue. December is a cupcake wonderland with Gingerbread, a blackstrap molasses and fresh ginger cupcake topped with the lightest, tangiest orange cream cheese buttercream; Chocolate Candy Cane, our Valrhona chocolate cupcake and pure peppermint buttercream rolled in crushed candy cane; Bourbon Eggnog, a nutmeg spice cupcake topped with bourbon buttercream.
Chocolate Stout Cupcakes
Recipe courtesy Dave Lieberman
Prep Time: 15 min
Inactive Prep Time:—Cook Time: 25 min
Makes 24 cupcakes
Ingredients
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa, plus more for dusting finished cupcakes
2 cups sugar
2 cups all-purposeflour
1 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch fine salt
1 bottle stout beer (recommended: Guinness)
1 stick butter, melted
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 large eggs
3/4 cup sour cream
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened at room temperature
3/4 to 1 cup heavy cream
1 (1-pound) box confectioners’ sugar
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the cocoa, sugar, flour, baking soda, and salt.
In another medium mixing bowl, combine the stout, melted butter, and vanilla. Beat in eggs, 1 at time. Mix in sour cream until thoroughly combined and smooth. Gradually mix the dry ingredients into the wet mixture.
Lightly grease 24 muffin tins. Divide the batter equally between muffin tins, filling each 3/4 full. Bake for about 12 minutes and then rotate the pans. Bake another 12 to 13 minutes until risen, nicely domed, and set in the middle but still soft and tender. Cool before turning out.
To make the icing:
In a medium bowl with a hand mixer, beat the cream cheese on medium speed until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the heavy cream. On low speed, slowly mix in the confectioners’ sugar until incorporated and smooth. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to use. Icing can be made several hours ahead and kept covered and chilled.
Top each cupcake with a heap of frosting and dust with cocoa.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/dave-lieberman/chocolate-stout-cupcakes-recipe/index.html
Cookies....sh*t.....
Gotta learn how to work that thingie above the stove - she calls it a "micronometerwavie", or sumpin like dat.
SWOON is right!!!!!!!!!
I’m going into sugar overload just reading :)
I’ve already done my chocolate overload for today. I don’t know which one of the umpteen flavors of ice cream were in the dish hubby fixed me. All I know it was chocolate, with lots of chocolaty chunks in it, then covered in chocolate syrup and topped with a strawberry that he had coated in chocolate. Does that man know I love chocolate or what? LOL!
Hello Diana . . . thank you for the ping . . . that looks scrumptious!!!
The heck with strawberry nut bread..............now I know exactly what I’m making for the church bake sale next week!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!!
Sounds tasty!
Wish I needed a new husband...this recipe would be JUST the trick, LOL!
Listen up single Freeper Gals! This is your ticket to matrimony...if you’re sure you’re ready for a one-way ticket, LOL!
Trapped the last one with my ‘Tater Tot Casserole’ but in all honestly, I let him chase me until I caught him. :)
Okay, DIW, or anyone else who has made these. I am a non drinker..so do these taste like stout? or is the beer taste “cooked out”??? :-)
The beer taste will be there, but the alcohol will be cooked out.
Oh yummy!
My husband is a home brewer and he has made ‘chocolate’ beer. It’s not made with chocolate, but with a roasted grain that gives the beer a chocolate flavor. I don’t like beer but I enjoyed that one. These cupcakes sound great!
Cooking with adult beverages ping!
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