How to Cook Yummy Light (or Dark) Beer Cupcakes!

Light (or Dark) Beer Cupcakes!. For a special occasion, whether a holiday or a thank you for a friend. Your choice of a light, or a dark beer like Guiness, subtly changes the flavour of the cupcake but doesn't make them overpowering. Ingredients of Light (or Dark) Beer Cupcakes!

These beer and pretzel cupcakes are light and moist, and the pretzel buttercream just adds so much. These cupcakes are made from scratch with a stout beer, then filled with an Irish whiskey-chocolate filling and topped off with some Irish cream icing. Once cooked, let the pan cool slightly and remove cupcakes. You can have Light (or Dark) Beer Cupcakes! using 21 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Light (or Dark) Beer Cupcakes!

1. You need of Dry Ingredients.
2. It's 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
3. You need 1/2 tsp of ground ginger.
4. You need 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
5. Prepare 1/4 tsp of salt.
6. You need 2 cup of white sugar.
7. It's 2 1/2 cup of all purpose or cake flour.
8. It's 3/4 cup of cocoa powder.
9. Prepare of Wet Ingredients.
10. It's 12 oz of light (or dark) beer.
11. Prepare 1/2 cup of milk.
12. You need 1/2 cup of oil or applesauce.
13. Prepare 1/2 tbsp of vanilla extract.
14. You need 3 of eggs.
15. It's 3/4 cup of buttermilk.
16. You need of The Icing.
17. Prepare 1/2 cup of butter.
18. Prepare 8 oz of cream cheese.
19. You need 4 cup of icing or confectioners sugar.
20. You need 1 of Beer (or white sweet wine).
21. It's 2 tsp of red food dye (or cocoa powder).

Allow cupcakes to cool completely before frosting. CREAM CHEESE FROSTING: Scrape down the sides of the mixture, add the remaining beer, and mix until well incorporated, scraping down the sides again if necessary. The difference between light beer and dark beer boils down to the grain that is used in the brewing process. The majority of beers are made with barley, wheat or oats.

Light (or Dark) Beer Cupcakes! step by step

1. Begin with the dry ingredients. Mix well together in one bowl..
2. In a seperate bowl, whisk the eggs until very well beaten. Add in the milk, the vanilla extract, the buttermilk and the oil or applesauce (as a healthy alternative to oil)..
3. Add the wet ingredients to the dry.
4. Do not mix excessively or the cupcakes will turn out chewier than they should be..
5. Add to muffin tin. Should make 20-25 cupcakes.
6. Pop into the oven at 350°F for fifteen to twenty minutes.
7. For the icing, mix the room temperature butter with the room temperature cream cheese until it becomes a smooth mixture..
8. Add the pinch of salt and ensure the icing sugar is well sifted before adding to the butter mixture.
9. Choose between adding the red food colouring, or the cocoa powder to make a light pink frosting or a light chocolatey type to compliment the beer cupcakes..
10. Add a small taste of beer or sweet wine to the frosting mix without making it too thin..
11. When the cupcakes are finished, wait until they mostly cool before frosting..
12. For a Valentine's Day theme, drop one conversation heart candy on each cupcake if frosted with pink frosting. For the chocolate, richer cupcake, sprinkle cocoa powder on the frosting to finish.

These grains can be roasted to varying degrees. The more they are roasted, the darker the grain becomes. The darker the grain, the darker the beer. Thanks to entrepreneurial bakers, beer cupcakes are popping up at festivals, in storefronts and in wholesale bakeries around the country. Boozy cupcakes are not just delicious but also inventive, like the "Pretzels & Beer" baked with pale ale and Nutella, which has become a best-seller at the Prohibition Bakery in Manhattan.