OH MY GOODNESS!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MY GOODNESS!
These cupcakes were hands down the best (chocolate) thing to ever grace my counter top. I think I ate three of them, and that's saying something, coming from a girl who doesn't normally eat the finished product! Maybe it was my love for coffee, maybe it was my love for chocolate, and maybe it was my nostalgic lust for my mom's homemade baileys that sparked this creation but regardless, these three flavors came together to form a cupcake trifecta.
Last Friday marked the last day that my coworker would be with the company and as a goodbye treat I asked her to pick this month's cupcake - Chocolate, Fruity, or Savory (like pumpkin) and obviously she chose chocolate... I had already decided after making those boozy little tequila cakes that at some point I'd like to try chocolate and bailey's so when she said chocolate I was presented the perfect opportunity to run with the idea. All day at work I mulled over the perfect combination of chocolate and bailey's cupcake, and decided coffee would be a good addition to the mix. Coffee naturally brings out the flavor in chocolate, people put bailey's in their coffee, baileys and chocolate icecream make a mudslide(right?) and chocolate and coffee make the mocha, I mean come on, can you say love triangle? anyway, I figured out what I was going to do. a chocolate cupcake, with coffee custard filling and a bailey's buttercream frosting. BEST IDEA EVER!
Get your basic chocolate cake recipe and add some coffee and baileys to it. bake that. grab some instant vanilla pudding and add coffee to that (I was winging this, didn't know it would actually work, good news, it does - Beautifully) and then make a buttercream frosting base... add some bailey's to taste, assemble and top with a lone coffee bean (this little bean really packs a punch at the end) and VIOLA. This recipe sorta just came out, like it was meant to be. I didnt have anything written down and I spent a lot of time thinking "God, I hope this works out okay" but... I've really said enough I think... so I'll leave you with one more picture.
Last Friday marked the last day that my coworker would be with the company and as a goodbye treat I asked her to pick this month's cupcake - Chocolate, Fruity, or Savory (like pumpkin) and obviously she chose chocolate... I had already decided after making those boozy little tequila cakes that at some point I'd like to try chocolate and bailey's so when she said chocolate I was presented the perfect opportunity to run with the idea. All day at work I mulled over the perfect combination of chocolate and bailey's cupcake, and decided coffee would be a good addition to the mix. Coffee naturally brings out the flavor in chocolate, people put bailey's in their coffee, baileys and chocolate icecream make a mudslide(right?) and chocolate and coffee make the mocha, I mean come on, can you say love triangle? anyway, I figured out what I was going to do. a chocolate cupcake, with coffee custard filling and a bailey's buttercream frosting. BEST IDEA EVER!
Get your basic chocolate cake recipe and add some coffee and baileys to it. bake that. grab some instant vanilla pudding and add coffee to that (I was winging this, didn't know it would actually work, good news, it does - Beautifully) and then make a buttercream frosting base... add some bailey's to taste, assemble and top with a lone coffee bean (this little bean really packs a punch at the end) and VIOLA. This recipe sorta just came out, like it was meant to be. I didnt have anything written down and I spent a lot of time thinking "God, I hope this works out okay" but... I've really said enough I think... so I'll leave you with one more picture.
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