Food Time: Beer Infused Chocolate Cupcake with Maple Butter Cream Cheese Frosting & Maple Glazed Bacon

ISN'T THAT A MOUTHFUL TITLE? Damn.

I know it's been awhile for me to share you some cool recipes. So of course, I wanted to make this after watching 2 Broke Girls awhile back (one of my favorite shows ever. I recommend)... So finally for a co-workers 40th birthday, I decided to make these yummy thing.

After googling around, I finally settled with one recipe and kinda tweaked it to my own version.

The co-workers love it. One of my co-worker's husband told her to tell me that he wants to marry me (I kindly decline that offer).

Oh and if you don't want ETOH involved, you can substitute the beer with Orange Juice? Haha... It'll probably give a nice chocolate cake with a hint of citrus in it. Yum.

Instead, I use Guinness (that's what this recipe called for). Yum.

This is a total Dude's Cupcake. Man Cake? That sounds weird.

Guinness Infused Chocolate Cupcake with Maple Butter Cream Cheese Frosting and Maple Glazed Bacon

adapted from Just Putzing Around the Kitchen

Makes 24 Cupcakes

What You Need:

• Le Cupcakes:
• 1 cup Guinness
• 1 stick butter
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cups granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 2/3 cup plain Greek yogurt or sour cream
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Le Bacon:
• 3 strips bacon
• 1/3 cup maple syrup
• Le Frosting:
• 8oz block cream cheese, softened
• 1 stick butter, softened
• 3 - 4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 tsp candied bacon drippings

butter infused beer? or beer infused butter? Smells good to me.

DIRECTIONNNNZZZ (be prepare to drool)

1. Preheat your oven at 350F. Line 2 cupcake pans with your cool cupcake liners. Woo.
2. In a medium size pan over medium heat, simmer the beer and add the butter until it melts. Enjoy the fragrance. I was really giddy. 
3. Add the chocolate chips and cocoa powder, stir until the chips melt, mix until smooth and set aside to cool.
4. In a large mixing bowl, whisk the eggs and yogurt/sour cream until they're mix well.
5. Add the chocolate mixture into the egg mix and mix well & smooth.
6. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until they're no lumps.
7. Scoop them batter in to the liners, approx 2/3 full and bake for 18 minutes, until a cake tester comes out crumbly clean :)
8. Once the cupcakes are done, cool them off on top of cooling racks. Meanwhile, bump up the oven to 375F.
9. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Lay the bacon strips on to the sheet and with a pastry brush, brush them bacons with maple syrup. Drool.
10. Bake the bacons for 10 minutes, but half way around, pull them out and brush more maple syrups on top of them.
11. After the 10 minutes are up, flip the bacon and brush maple syrup again on top of the bacon and bake again for another 10 minutes. I turn my oven light on and stare at the bacon getting all candied. I get giddy again.
12. One last time, pull them out, flip, brush again the bacon with maple syrup and bake for another 3-5 minutes.
13. Remove from the oven and let them yummy bacon cool.
14. While cupcakes and bacon cool, let's make the frostings (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
15. With your paddle attachment for your stand mixer (or handheld is cool too!), mix cream cheese and butter until smooth and awesomely incorporated
16. Stop your mixer, add sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, mix in slow speed until powdered sugar are mix in, and bump up the speed to medium. Mix for 2-3 minutes each time. I usually used 3-4 cups of powdered sugar, because usually it's meets to consistency & sweetness that I like. It's optional if you want your frosting to be more stiff and/or sweeter.
17. Once you've reached the consistency that you want, add maple syrup (yum) and the bacon drippings.
18. When ready, frost your cupcake with a sexy frost tip.
19. Slice one piece of the bacon, about 1 inch long, and place on top of each frosted cupcake.
20. Crumbled the rest of the bacon and sprinkle them on top of the cupcakes.
21. Breathe in the awesome fragrance of the cupcake and indulge. Now. Love it? Me too.

As always, comments/critics/suggestions are always accepted. LET ME KNOW YO!