Stout Cupcakes!

SWMBO has been making cupcakes out of chocolate cake mix and diet coke recently. Somehow the diet coke makes the batter 'work' and it actually tastes very similar to the 'real' cupcake mix.

So last weekend we brought some of these to a friends house and our friend said "man thats so weird that it works! I wonder what else would?" And the light bulb went off. Stout Cupcakes!!

Tonight I did it....I actually only did a half batch just to see if it would work. For a normal batch it would be 1 pkg chocolate cake mix + ~8oz of Guinness (thats what I used but any stout would do) Mix it up and treat it like a normal batter.

It's actually really good! It's chocolaty but with a definite roasty stouty aftertaste.

Give it a try

Nice! I want to try this. Except maybe with a porter.

My roommate made a cake with a Belgian Strong Ale. She did it when I was away, but reports that it's really good, that *****.

They did this on the Food Network a while back and it looked really good. I forgot about it until reading this. Here is there recipe if anyone needs a jumping off point:

Food Network's Chocolate Stout Cupcakes

mmmmmmm... Guiness cupcakes. I'm going to have to give this a try.

Sounds awesome!

SWMBO and I have plans to make Abbey Tripel ice cream and mocha chocolate stout ice cream. Anyone with an ice cream maker is welcome to beat us to the punch but we're looking forward to it.

I made a guinness cupcake once and it was super delicious!! I'm gonna try it next time with the porter I'm brewing.

I'm not sure if I was clear in this...maybe I was...I don't know

The ONLY ingredients in this is the cake mix + the stout (or diet coke if thats what you're going for) NO eggs, oil etc.

oh, i missed that part....

what made your SWMBO try it with just diet coke?

I will for sure give these a shot in the near future. Thanks for the tip.

She saw it on some website....they're less calories and fat and blah blah blah..

where are the pictures??????????????????

bigjohnmilford said:

where are the pictures??????????????????

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In my belly

But if you REALLY need pics:

First you open one of these:



Pour in ~8oz or so into the mix of one of these (brand doesn't really matter....just chocolate) :



Bake it.

And eat it:



**all images stolen from GIS**

I've had a bottle of guinness kicking around the fridge for a good 8-10 months that I can't quite bring myself to drink. I think I'll make these tonight.

Laurel said:

I've had a bottle of guinness kicking around the fridge for a good 8-10 months that I can't quite bring myself to drink. I think I'll make these tonight.

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Sweet! Let me know how it comes out!

Alamo_Beer said:

Sweet! Let me know how it comes out!

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Got lazy but I'm boiling a porter tomorrow night. I'll get these in the oven while the porter's going. Was the 8oz(1 cup) for 1/2 the mix or all of it? 1 cup seems like not much liquid for a whole cake mix box.

8oz should be enough for the whole box. I use 6 for 1/2 the mix and think I should/could of held back. Just play it by ear and use enough to get all the ingredients wet. It honestly looks like 'normal' batter once you mix it up.

I'm just basing the liquid amounts on what SWMBO has told me. She thinks that 1 can of Diet Coke (12oz) is too much and uses from a 1/2 to 3/4 a can....