Moan-worthy! I was doing a little dance in my kitchen when I was done. Soooo nom nom. – Words can’t even begin to explain it. I was so excited that when Glen was done exercising, I shoved a cupcake in his face saying, “TRY THIS.”
If your reading my blog, you know I’m not a baker. I’m more a salty and spicy kind of girl. However, if you mention beer in a cupcake, I’m definitely going to try it.
There are all kinds of beer cupcake recipes out there if you just Google it. I, however, can not begin to tell you that when it comes to baking sweet nothings, I screw up some part of the recipe. I’m not sure why. I just do. It makes me sad inside.
Anyhow…
I’d like to think that I simplified a complicated recipe. Go buy a box of Betty Crocker white cake mix, and follow the instructions on the back. ONLY – you will replace the water with an orange-citrus Belgian white ale. You can use Bluemoon, the popular choice, but when I was shopping at my local beer emporium, 1 For the Road, they recommended I try Shock Top. I just love saying, “Beer emporium.” It just makes me tingle, and I absolutely love having one close by. Pennsylvania needs to bend the laws to allow more establishments to sell beer by the bottle. There is no fun in buying 24 bottles of the same beer. Sorry! A little rant. Back to the recipe…add in the zest of one large navel orange. It gives it a boost in flavor and color.
Not good with separating the egg whites? Neither am I. Get some All Whites by Crystal Farms.
Pour in your batter 3/4 full – allow for the cupcake to swell up. Put in your already preheated oven by following the box instructions. The box says 18-23 minutes, however, mine took about 25 minutes. So, make sure to keep checking it with a toothpick.
While your cupcakes are brewing…
Start your frosting.
Now for the topping, I’m pretty picky. I followed an old recipe I had on hand that is perfect.
This takes quite a bit of time. I suggest using a standing mixer, so you can do other things, and your arms don’t get tired.
Start beating 2 egg whites, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, and 1 tablespoon of orange juice. Mix for 10 minutes until soft and fluffy.
While that’s mingling…
In a saucepan, mix 1 cup of sugar, 1/3 cup of Belgian white ale, and 1/4 teaspoon of cream of tartar. Cook on medium heat until…
Nice and bubbly. Doesn’t that just look like a fluffy cloud of all things heavenly?
Slowly add hot sugar mixture, beating continuously for another 10 minutes until it’s so stiff that you can’t get it off the spoon without serious effort. – Exactly like marshmallow creme.
The batter is easily manageable for the not so neatly creative bakers. I love this frosting because you can scoop and top allowing each cupcake to look divine.
Take the zest from another large navel orange for garnish. Serve with a Belgian White Ale. Done and delicious!
See! I suck at this and it looks awesome. If I do say so myself.
I had a few parties this weekend, so I doubled the recipe. It really didn’t take me long to prepare and bake; all the while taking pictures.
Tip: Keep these bad boys refrigerated. The frosting will start to melt on you, not to mention, it has egg whites in it.
Have any cool cooking tricks, let me know because this girl likes to eat.
Thanks for reading.
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I like Blue Moon, but recently discovered Shock Top, and I think I like it even better. Those cupcakes look delicious!
Super delicious cupcakes!! I ususally don’t branch out with my cupcake flavors, but this was just yummy!
I had the pleasure of trying one of these cupcakes – DELICIOUS! Light and fluffy, not “beery” at all. Yum!!
Thanks ladies. Glad you liked them. I think I’m going to try a butter-cream icing next time. Using eggs that are not cooked, kinda freaked people out. Plus, it melts easily.
I am a Shock Top FANATIC and can’t wait to try these!!!!
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I’m not sure how to keep them from not melting from the heat but what you could do, is try a harder frosting even though you’res sounds delicious. Use a light cream cheese softened mixed with a splash of shock top, orange juice, zest, and some powdered sugar but just add a few tablespoons of the liquids at a time so you can get it at the consistency you’d like. Just blend it until its smooth and it will work better with the melting because of the cream cheese and using a piping bag. And what’s fun is you can play around with the ingredients for a cream cheese frosting to make it lighter or heavier or even try a lemon cream cheese frosting to go with the orange cupcake. Thanks for the recipe. I’m going to play around with it and make them for a 4th of july party. 🙂
Thanks for the tip Stephanie. I’m definitely going to try a cream cheese frosting next time. Also, thanks for reading. =)
That’s the great thing about boiled icing, the egg whites become tempered, and therefore cooked, when you pour the boiling sugar on top, so people with raw egg phobia need not phobe 🙂 my favorite beer cupcake recipe is over at a blog called Vonfessions of a Tart, where she makes an absolutely divine Guinness chocolate cake. It’s another ‘dear god this is so good I can’t stop eating them’ recipe, highly reccomended 🙂
Love LOVE Guinness. I have a recipe for Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes using Guinness and Bailey’s Irish Creme. I usually make a cake out of it. Surprisingly, it’s not too sweet. Must be all the Guinness 😛
Thanks for the blog suggestion and reading mine. I just love food porn.
Could anyone tell me how many cupcakes one box of the Betty Crocker mix makes using this recipe?
Hi Crystal,
It makes 24 cupcakes. Let me know how you like it.
Enjoy!
Thanks for linking me =)