With St. Paddy's Day just around the corner these Irish eyes are smiling!!!! Why???.....Chocolate Guinness Cake with Bailey's Cream Cheese Icing.....mmmmm.....sooo yum! They are only in the oven now but boy was I ever licking the spoon today; rich, chocolatey, deep and dark flavours just begged me to lick the spoon once or twice more! That was just the cake batter. I've just finished making the icing while my wee cupcakes were a baking. The original recipe from Nigela Lawson simply called for a cream cheese icing, but come on, how could dear Bailey's be left out of this one. Top these cakes with the smooth, lusious, golden icing and you've got what looks like a wee pint of Guinness. The best thing about this recipe is how quick and easy it is to make, plus you only need one pot!!
I ended up making a half batch of the recipe, giving me 12 cupcakes, I used some shamrock cupcake liners and decided to make little Guinness pints rather than one big cake.
I'm making another Guinness cake today and thought not to be too glutenous with a whole batch!!
