Ok, full disclosure: I DON’T LIKE GUINNESS. With that off my
chest, I am happy to report that I LOVE these cupcakes. The Guinness flavour is
there in the background, but it manifests itself in the most amazing way:
transforming these cupcakes into rich, chocolately, dense morsels with just a
hint of spice in the background.
These are really moist little numbers, and the batter is
quite thin therefore difficult to get neatly into the cupcake cases. Not that I’m
overly concerned with being “neat” but I’ve found that ladling the mixture into
the cases works much better than the traditional tablespoon method.
Despite not liking Guinness, I am still Irish, so I know how
a pint of the dark stuff is meant to be pulled. Imagine my disgust when I was
out at a gig the other day and saw Guinness being poured directly into the
glass all at once. No resting time! No head! Needless to say, I was shocked on behalf
of all Guinness drinkers everywhere.
But luckily you don’t have to know how to pull the perfect pint of
Guinness to be able to make the perfect Guinness cupcake. Or else the barmaids of Newcastle would be out of luck.
Makes a little over a
dozen
