Chocolate Stout Cupcakes

Recipe courtesy Dave Lieberman

Show: Good Deal with Dave LiebermanEpisode: Glass Half Full

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RECIPE
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Cook Time:
25 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
24 cupcakes

Times:

Prep: 15 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 25 min
Total:: 40 min

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Ingredients

3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa, plus more for dusting finished cupcakes
2 cups sugar
2 cups all-purposeflour
1 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch fine salt
1 bottle stout beer (recommended: Guinness)
1 stick butter, melted
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 large eggs
3/4 cup sour cream
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened at room temperature
3/4 to 1 cup heavy cream
1 (1-pound) box confectioners' sugar

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the cocoa, sugar, flour, baking soda, and salt.

In another medium mixing bowl, combine the stout, melted butter, and vanilla. Beat in eggs, 1 at time. Mix in sour cream until thoroughly combined and smooth. Gradually mix the dry ingredients into the wet mixture.

Lightly grease 24 muffin tins. Divide the batter equally between muffin tins, filling each 3/4 full. Bake for about 12 minutes and then rotate the pans. Bake another 12 to 13 minutes until risen, nicely domed, and set in the middle but still soft and tender. Cool before turning out.

To make the icing:

In a medium bowl with a hand mixer, beat the cream cheese on medium speed until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the heavy cream. On low speed, slowly mix in the confectioners' sugar until incorporated and smooth. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to use. Icing can be made several hours ahead and kept covered and chilled.

Top each cupcake with a heap of frosting and dust with cocoa.

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recipe Chocolate Stout Cupcakes
Jessica Bridgeville, PA 09-17-2009
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Oh so good!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

These are the best cupcakes that I have ever made and some of the best that I have tasted. My husband and I saw Dave... Lieberman make these during a demonstration at Giant Eagle. They were so good that we decided to try and make them ourselves. Now this is our favorite cupcake recipe.Read more
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Emiko Portola Valley, CA 06-23-2009
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moist easy tasty unique yuuuuummmmmmmm
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

these came together beautifully. if you forget to take things out ahead of time to bring them to room temp, just pop the... individual items into the microwave for a few seconds. i didn't have cream cheese for the frosting, so i made a chocolate ganache with bailey's irish creme. it cuts through the sweetness and gives the flavor more depth. also, i didn't have sour cream for the cupcakes so i used lowfat vanilla yogurt and just ommitted the vanilla extract. YUUUUMMMMMRead more
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Malia Olathe, KS 04-13-2009
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Really good
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I made these with Boulevard Stout instead of Guinness and checked how much was in the Guinness, it was about 12 oz. These... were divine. Instead of the frosting listed on the recipe, I make a Baileys Irish Cream Frosting and filled with an Irish Whiskey Ganache like "Irish Car Bombs" Cupcakes seen elsewhere on the net. These went very fast!Read more
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Marisa Scottsdale, AZ 03-22-2009
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Question...
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For those of you that have baked these before...how much beer did you add? My husband wanted to use a specialty beer he... enjoys that is a chocolate stout itself and the bottle is 1 pint. Since the recipe calls for 1 bottle of Guiness I assume that maybe the measurements might be a bit off? Can anyone help? Thanks!Read more
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ROSALYN cincinnati, OH 03-22-2009
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best cupcakes
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Everyone loved these. Very rich, plus I added ~1/2 cup dark choc chips to batter. Icing was a little gooey but delicious,... next time I use less cream. , i didn't rotate in oven and came out fine.Read more
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Sue Culpeper, VA 03-19-2009
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Slante'
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

These were the first cupcakes I had made from scratch. AWESOME!!! I do also recommend using your ingredients at room... temperature. I also used a hand whisk to mix the batter for grins and giggles! They came out perfect!!! Since I was pressed for time, I topped them with store-bought cream cheese icing but will try the home-made version the next time I make them...and there will be a next time! Everyone at work wants some more!Read more