beer cupcakes

I’m not Irish. I am however a fan of the colour green and an even bigger fan of alcoholic cupcakes. I spotted these beer flavoured gummy sweets about a month ago and have been saving them to top these cupcakes. I found them locally but you can buy them here. The cake itself is a chocolate Guinness and I used this recipe, minus half the amount of salt. The buttercream …

I know nothing about beer. I know I like a cold Bud or a limey Corona every now and then but nothing about specialty or craft beers. The most adventurous one I’ve ever tried was a banana bread beer which tasted like those foamy banana sweets you get at the cinema. But while my cousin, Christopher, was visiting this week we went on a sort of craft beer crawl and …