Reviewed: Apr. 3, 2013

I made these cupcakes for a friend's birthday which is the day before St. Patrick's Day. I made the cupcakes exactly as written with modifications for our high altitude (over 5,000 ft.). The cupcakes were fantastic! The only thing that I might have done differently would be to increase the filling and frosting as I ran out of it before I had filled all of the cupcakes. I used the correct alcoholic mixture as well. FYI you can but small miniatures for the filling and frosting. Which is what I did. I also used good quality chocolate and cocoa for the recipe. These may take a while to make, but they are truly awesome and worth all of the time involved. I also used my Wilton cupcake corer for the first time, which may be why I needed extra filling. The corer, once I figured it out, made it easy to take out the extra cupcake material in the middle. I used the cupcake cores to make my Grandma Scherer's "cake". She could never get any cake to come out of the pan, so she would crumble it up and fold it into whipped cream along with some fruit. I did the same with my middles adding dried cherries.

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Cammy K

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Decatur, Illinois, USA

Living In: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Reviewed: Mar. 25, 2013

very very good. Time consuming, but well worth it. I will be using it for many celebrations, just changing the frosting color and using different liquors to fit the holiday.

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jessica

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Silverdale, Washington, USA

Reviewed: Mar. 23, 2013

Made these for St. Patrick's Day and they were amazing! Followed recipe exactly. It doesn't make a lot of icing so you might need to make more. It takes a while for the icing to go from chunky to creamy, so don't freak out when beating it.

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Natalie.mills417

Reviewed: Mar. 23, 2013

HUGE hit at our St Patty's day party....

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Andrea

Cooking Level: Beginning

Reviewed: Mar. 21, 2013

I made these for a group of friends for St. Patrick's Day dinner. They got fabulous reviews! The only change I made was adding probably 1 more tablespoon of Bailey's into the icing for a smoother consistency. (I may have added a bit more powered sugar than needed). They were moist & delicious and will definitely be made often at my house.

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StarCity99

Reviewed: Mar. 21, 2013

These are unbelieveable!

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Holly

Reviewed: Mar. 20, 2013

I made this recipe exactly as stated and it came out perfect!! Sooooo good, my boyfriend didn't want to stop eating them!

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Sierra

Reviewed: Mar. 18, 2013

AMAAAAAAAAZING cupcakes!!!! I skipped the filling, as I had a lot of baking (and a lot of parties) to do. The cupcakes themselves were DIVINE, and rich-tasting. I didn't change a thing otherwise, but next time I'll make the filling and rate it even higher. :-)

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Phyllis

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Living In: Metairie, Louisiana, USA

Reviewed: Mar. 18, 2013

Amazing!!! These cupcakes taste fantastic! They're moist, fairly easy to make and are SURE to please people! 10/10 would make again!

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KJF85

Reviewed: Mar. 17, 2013

These were very good! The chocolate cake, to me, was a bit dry, but usually homemade cakes (especially chocolate) are. The flavors all went together well, and there was no strong alcohol taste, which was nice. I do have to admit that I do prefer boxed chocolate ckae mix to homemade, so I may just use that next time, and sub the Guinness for the water called for and see how that turns out. I would make these again! Thanks for sharing. :)

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