Sunday, October 7, 2012

Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes

I made a half batch trial run of these yesterday since I'm planning to make them next weekend for my father-in-law's belated birthday celebration. 

Recipe
Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes

Comments
 - The ganache is tricky...during my first test I used bittersweet chocolate and I thought it was too bitter.  Plus you really couldn't taste the whiskey.  When I made these again I used semisweet chocolate and doubled the amount of whiskey.  I chilled the ganache for about 15 minutes before I tried to pipe it and it was still too runny.  I ended up adding some powdered sugar and used my hand mixer to thicken it a bit.  The whiskey flavor still didn't come through.  These cupcakes would still be really good without the ganache.
 - The cake portion of the cupcakes aren't overly sweet which is good because the Baileys frosting is really rich

Rating
4/5

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