Light (or Dark) Beer Cupcakes!
Light (or Dark) Beer Cupcakes!

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, light (or dark) beer cupcakes!. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Light (or Dark) Beer Cupcakes! is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Light (or Dark) Beer Cupcakes! is something which I have loved my entire life.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have light (or dark) beer cupcakes! using 21 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Light (or Dark) Beer Cupcakes!:
  1. Prepare Dry Ingredients
  2. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  3. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground ginger
  4. Prepare 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  5. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
  6. Make ready 2 cup white sugar
  7. Make ready 2 1/2 cup all purpose or cake flour
  8. Take 3/4 cup cocoa powder
  9. Take Wet Ingredients
  10. Make ready 12 oz light (or dark) beer
  11. Prepare 1/2 cup milk
  12. Prepare 1/2 cup oil or applesauce
  13. Take 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
  14. Get 3 eggs
  15. Prepare 3/4 cup buttermilk
  16. Make ready The Icing
  17. Take 1/2 cup butter
  18. Get 8 oz cream cheese
  19. Make ready 4 cup icing or confectioners sugar
  20. Get 1 Beer (or white sweet wine)
  21. Prepare 2 tsp red food dye (or cocoa powder)

In a separate bowl, whisk together the butter, eggs, and vanilla. Stir in the Greek yogurt until no large lumps remain. In a large saucepan, combine beer, butter, cocoa powder, and espresso powder. Heat over medium-low, whisking until butter has melted and ingredients are fully incorporated.

Instructions to make Light (or Dark) Beer Cupcakes!:
  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
  13. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

In a large saucepan, combine beer, butter, cocoa powder, and espresso powder. Heat over medium-low, whisking until butter has melted and ingredients are fully incorporated. Set aside until ready to frost. Evenly distribute the frosting among the cupcakes, and top with some of the crushed chocolate pretzels. Add the confectioners' sugar, cocoa powder, milk, reduced Guinness/espresso powder mixture, milk, and vanilla extract.

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