Chocolate Stout Mini Cakes With Irish Cream Frosting
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Ingredients
  • 1 stick butter, softened
  • 2 confectioners' sugar
  • 2 -3 tablespoons baileys irish cream
  • 1/2 vanilla extract
  • 1 milk, or to taste (optional)
  • one 15-ounce box super moist chocolate cake mix
  • one 1.4-ounce box sugar- and fat-free chocolate pudding mix
  • 3/4 guinness
  • 1/2 applesauce
  • 3 eggs
  • cooking spray, for the baking sheet
  • sprinkles, for serving
Directions
  1. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer, or in a large mixing bowl with an electric handheld mixer, beat the butter on medium-high speed until totally soft and fluffy, about 30 seconds to 1 minute. Add the sugar, 1 cup at a time, thinning out with the Baileys and vanilla extract as it beats.
  2. Add the milk if you'd like to make it thinner. (This frosting has a very strong Baileys flavor, and so if you don't like that so much, use less Baileys and more milk.)
  3. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  4. Combine the cake mix, pudding mix, Guinness, applesauce, and eggs in the bowl of an electric stand mixer or in a large mixing bowl with an electric handheld mixer ready.
  5. Beat on low for 30 seconds, then on medium-high until all of the ingredients are completely combined and fluffy, 2 minutes.
  6. Coat a baking sheet or whoopie pie pan with cooking spray. (I used both methods and the ones from the whoopie pie pan came out a little cuter and nicely shaped, however, if you don't have one, a baking sheet works totally fine.)
  7. Using a tablespoon-sized melon baller or ice cream scoop, drop heaping tablespoons onto the baking sheet or pie pan.
  8. Bake for about 12 minutes. Remove from the oven, let cool slightly on pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Frost cooled cakes and top with sprinkles of choice. Eat many, immediately.