Christmas Baileys Cupcakes

Hi Guys!

As soon as I come home for Christmas I just can’t seem to get myself out of the kitchen! There are so many amazing things to make and there is so much creative potential. I absolutely love trying out new things and this year I wanted to try and make some Baileys Cupcakes. I love Baileys so much and the result was delicious! I used a basic chocolate cupcake recipe from Baking mad and then added 1 tsp of Baileys to the cake mixture. Furthermore, to make the cakes more interesting, I split the mixture into blonde and chocolate then swirled it together… read on to see the marbled effect!

Baileys… the best liquer ever… yum!!

The ingredients list is very simple:

4tbsp boiling water
40g Cocoa powder
3 eggs
175g butter
165g unrefined caster sugar
115g self-raising flour
1tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Baileys (My addition to the recipe)

After mixing all the ingredients together (making sure to split the mixture in half before adding the Baileys and cocoa), I layered up the plain mixture followed by the chocolate one and then finally followed by another plain layer – this is what makes the cake lovely and swirled!

Cook the cupcakes for about 10-15 minutes

The icing mixture is very simple too:

750g icing sugar
250g softened butter
25g cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp Baileys (I used a very small amount and I personally think this is by far enough!)