Chocolate & Guinness Cupcakes

Finished Cupcake

1st Bake Off  30/03/2012




At Border Steak House (Leitholm pub)






Chocolate & Guinness Cupcakes

Ingredients/Recipe 

Cakes                             

250ml Guinness               

250g Butter                                                                             400g Caster sugar            

75g Cocoa                     

1 tbs Vanilla

142ml Sour Cream

2 Eggs

275g Plain Flour

 2 and a 1/2tsp Bicarbonater of Soda

Topping

300g Philadelphia 

150g Icing Sugar 

125ml Double / Whipping Cream  

1.  Heat Guinness and butter in a pan until melted, take off heat.
2.  Add sugar and cocoa.
3.  Mix eggs, sour cream & vanilla together and add to pan.
4. Whisk in flour & bicarbonate of soda.
5. Split into muffin cases or pour into a cake tin.
6. The topping, whip cream and then add Philadelphia and Icing sugar and mix.


Baking
Muffins - 180/Gas mark 4, 20-25 mins
Cake - 180/ Gas mark 4, 45-60 mins

Pouring the mixture

The mixer is a lighter than should be, but when I went to make I didn't have enough cocoa!

Coming out the Rayburn 

Mmmmmmmmm they smell delicious 

Coming out the Rayburn 

Just have to pipe the icing on

All finished and ready to eat!
Could this be a winning Chocolate & Guinness  Muffin  for the Bake Off?

Next Bake Off 

3 Empire Biscuits

 Friday 27th April at 7.30pm 

Border Steak House

Congratulations Claire: our first winner.