From the dark chocolate chips in the rich chocolate sponge, to the smooth and creamy chocolate and Baileys frosting, to the velvety milk chocolate Baileys ganache you’ll discover inside – these really are the ultimate Baileys chocolate cupcakes.
Baileys ultimate chocolate cupcakes with a surprise inside
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Chocolate chip sponge with Baileys chocolate frosting and a hidden core of Baileys ganache.
Author: Emily Leary
Recipe type: Cookies, cakes and bakes
Serves: 12
Ingredients
For the sponge:
- 150g (5.5 oz) butter
- 200g (7 oz) sugar
- 3 medium eggs
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 200g (7 oz) self-raising flour
- 1 tbsp cocoa
- 2 tbsp whole milk
- 100g (3.5 oz) melted dark chocolate
- 100g (3.5 oz) dark chocolate chips
For the Baileys ganache
- 150ml (5 fl oz) double cream
- 50ml (1.75 fl oz) Baileys
- 200g (7 oz) milk chocolate
For the frosting:
- 170g (6 oz) butter
- 500g (17.5 oz) icing sugar
- 50ml (1.5 - 2 fl oz) whole milk
- 2 tbsp Baileys
- 4 tbsp drinking chocolate powder
- Chocolate decorative hearts (optional)
Instructions
To make the sponge:
- Preheat the oven to 190C (170C fan)
- Beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy
- Beat the eggs separately, then beat into the mix bit by bit
- Sieve in the flour, cocoa and baking powder and fold through
- Fold in the milk to loosen
- Fold in the cool melted chocolate
- Fold in the chocolate chips
- Spoon into a 12 hole muffin tray lined with paper cases
- Bake for 18-20 minutes until just firm on top
- Leave to cool completely on a wire rack
To make the ganache
- Heat the cream and Baileys in a saucepan until just beginning to simmer.
- Break the milk chocolate into a bowl and pour the heated cream mixture over it.
- Stir until it melts together, forming a glossy ganache
- Leave to cool to room temp
Prepare the core:
- Cut out a hole from the centre of each cupcake - I used a cupcake corer from Lakeland
- Pour the cool ganache into each hole, up to the top
- Leave until it feels set to the touch (15-30 minutes)
To make the frosting:
- Beat the butter on its own until fluffy
- Add the icing sugar, drinking chocolate powder and milk and beat together - starting slow and then speeding up until pale fluffy
- Add the Baileys and beat again
- Transfer into a piping bag with an closed star nozzle and pipe high swirls, keeping the bag upright to give lovely frilly swirls
- I topped mine with some chocolate hearts
How pretty.. I bet it’s yummy fancy too…. mmmmm :)
Do these cupcakes need to be stored in the fridge due to the baileys and milk in the frosting?
Hi. They’re best eaten on the day you make them, but otherwise put them in airtight tupperware and store in the fridge. Take out an hour or two before you’d like to serve so that they’re back to room temp.