So many consider the Irish car bomb cocktail to be, at least, a little racist but that hasn’t stopped it being one of the consistently popular shots around and now for those who would prefer their booze in chocolate form we’ve tracked down an Irish car bomb cupcake recipe.
The SmittenKitchen has put together the most delicious recipe combing all the ingredients found in the offending cocktail.
To make the cocktail in question you fill a shot glass with Baileys Irish Cream and Jameson’s Irish whiskey and drop it into a three-quarters-full pint of Guinness. Believe it or believe it not this concoction tastes like Irish cream and chocolate. Delicious!
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Here’s the recipe for the equally indulgent cupcakes:
Makes 20 to 24 cupcakes
Cupcakes - ingredients
1 cup stout (such as Guinness)
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (preferably Dutch-process)
2 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
2/3 cup sour cream
Ganache Filling - ingredients
8 ounces bittersweet chocolate
2/3 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons butter, room temperature
1 to 2 teaspoons Irish whiskey (optional)
Baileys Frosting - ingredients
3 to 4 cups confections sugar
1 stick (1/2 cup or 4 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperatue
3 to 4 tablespoons Baileys (or milk, or heavy cream, or a combination thereof)
Method:
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Line 24 cupcake cups with liners.
Bring 1 cup stout and 1 cup butter to simmer in heavy large saucepan over medium heat.
Add cocoa powder and whisk until mixture is smooth. Cool slightly.
Whisk flour, sugar, baking soda, and 3/4 teaspoon salt in large bowl to blend.
Using electric mixer, beat eggs and sour cream in another large bowl to blend.
Add stout-chocolate mixture to egg mixture and beat just to combine.
Add flour mixture and beat briefly on slow speed.
Using rubber spatula, fold batter until completely combined.
Divide batter among cupcake liners, filling them 2/3 to 3/4 of the way.
Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, rotating them once front to back if your oven bakes unevenly, about 17 minutes.
Cool cupcakes on a rack completely.
Make the filling:
Chop the chocolate and transfer it to a heatproof bowl.
Heat the cream until simmering and pour it over the chocolate.
Let it sit for one minute and then stir until smooth.
Add the butter and whiskey and stir until combined.
Fill the cupcakes:
Let the ganache cool until thick but still soft enough to be piped.
Meanwhile, using your 1-inch round cookie cutter or an apple corer, cut the centers out of the cooled cupcakes.
You want to go most of the way down the cupcake but not cut through the bottom — aim for 2/3 of the way.
A slim spoon or grapefruit knife will help you get the center out. Those are your “tasters”.
Put the ganache into a piping bag with a wide tip and fill the holes in each cupcake to the top.
Make the frosting:
Whip the butter in the bowl of an electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, for several minutes.
You want to get it very light and fluffy.
Slowly add the powdered sugar, a few tablespoons at a time.
When the frosting looks thick enough to spread, drizzle in the Baileys (or milk) and whip it until combined.
If this has made the frosting too thin (it shouldn’t, but just in case) beat in another spoonful or two of powdered sugar.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.rbrochard | Feb 16, 2012, 04:46 PM EST
Just testing to comment on this site
Scotchtommy | Feb 14, 2012, 02:39 AM EST
Whats sicko came up with that name.Whoever he/she was they have no right to call themselves Irish American.Think of the American screams of horror if someone in Ireland had come up with a cocktail called "Twin Towers Slammer"
SeamusMartin | Feb 11, 2012, 11:55 AM EST
Instead of castigating our abhorrence for the drink's current name... why not, we all pick new names and we'll proceed to vote for the most popular. How 'bout, "The (Irish) Death Coach" or "The Wailing Banshee"? Who's next?
hjolley | Feb 10, 2012, 10:11 PM EST
Shame on Bernie Malone for writing this and shame on Irish Central for publishing it.
jackinny | Feb 10, 2012, 06:47 PM EST
Niall WTF? I used to manage an "Irish" bar/restaurant on Ft Lauderdale Bch. When the tourist louts would order this crap I would inform them that if NYC was on their itinerary that they might want to avoid ordering it in a certain charming pub on 3rd ave in the 40s. Niall if one of Murdoch's outlets ran this "feature" you would be rightly call on us to protest. I hope you teach Mr or Ms Malone a little bit of sensitivity
ciaradexy | Feb 10, 2012, 03:00 PM EST
Do you have a recipe for a Taliban Attack cupcake or a 9/11 cupcake? Racist idiots seem to run this site.
joemccullough | Feb 10, 2012, 02:00 PM EST
How can the editor of this Irish magazine print this deeply offensive garbage? No self-respect.
RichardP | Feb 10, 2012, 01:58 PM EST
Its hard to think of a more offensive article - crass ignorance and blatant racism - furthered by idiotic writing, masquerading as a journalism. You should be ashamed of yourself, Bernie Malone, for finding such a thing worthy of report in any publication other than for denunciation.
RockNReel | Feb 10, 2012, 11:44 AM EST
Very Bad Taste indeed !! Shame on you for printing a completely pointless article . Are you all still living in the past and believing in Leprauchans and bejasus and begorrah and top o' the morning to yerself as well sir !! Its time some of your staff writers moved into the real world and realised how much Ireland has moved on while all the time america seems to be living in the past if that article is anything to go by? I know thats probably not the case but come on guys---what a waste of ink !!!
Nicoletta | Feb 10, 2012, 11:37 AM EST
Bad taste! You yanks have no clue about what it was like living through the Troubles. Shame on you Irish Central for printing this. You should withdraw it immediately and apologize.
MarybethC.P. | Feb 10, 2012, 10:32 AM EST
Liam (here below) is absolutely right! I think anyone who cares about Ireland, her people, and her history, should refrain from calling drinks - or cupcakes based on those drinks - "Irish car bombs". We're a clever peopl and good writers, so surely we can think of snappy titles that don't reference painful tragedies from such recent Irish history! Perhaps the drink/cupcake could be called "The Waking Ned", or some such thing.
ozman51 | Feb 10, 2012, 10:32 AM EST
Agreed!! In the first paragraph you mention "So many consider the Irish car bomb cocktail to be, at least, a little racist" Yet you still condone the use of the name!?!?! Show a bit of respect for the many families who've been touched by such violence and condemn the use of a name that is so offensive! Black & Tans were at least from 80 years ago...Car bombs are still fresh in everyone's mind!!
Liam3494 | Feb 10, 2012, 10:08 AM EST
Really! Do we have to have this perpetuation of a deeply offensive name given by you Americans at a time when family members were being killed by such devices (And, NO, I don't mean the drink!).... Why not advertise the recipe for a Black and Tan and romanticise about them as well.... I despair at times....