Beer Cupcakes = Neat!

Alright kids, I love beer, and I love cupcakes. Let’s combine them! Thanks to the brilliant minds at City Pages, now we can.
Ingredients you will need:

• A stick and a tablespoon of unsalted butter
• A bottle or can of Guinness (go for the best, but if you aren’t a fan of Guinness, well, first you should probably rethink your life, but next you can probably substitute a similar, not-too-hoppy dark stout)
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 2 cups dark brown sugar
• 3/4 cup sour cream
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 8 oz cream cheese
• 1 1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
• 1/3 cup milk (optional)
• Muffin tin
• Bowls
• An oven (no shit, Sherlock)

Instructions:
(Here I’ll try to be as simple as possible, in case you’re baking and drunk. Really though, please don’t bake while drunk. That’s bad.)

1. Preheat the oven to 350°
2. In a saucepan, melt the butter. (or nuke it if you’re lazy, like me)
3. Add a cup of Guinness to the butter (here the author warns us to be wary of the smell: “pretty strange… though not entirely unpleasant.” Ok then.)
4. Turn off the heat (or remove from the microwave) and add the cocoa and the brown sugar. Wisk that puppy up real good.
5. Eat mass quantities of the uncooked batter you have created, yet save enough to make actual cupcakes – at least one or two. (optional)
6. In a separate bowl, whisk the sour cream, eggs, and vanilla until smooth.
7. Combine your two mixtures. Go ahead and eat mass quantities of this batter too, you know, as long as you don’t mind salmonella.
8. Sift (what a cool word) in the flour and the baking soda. For the culinarily-challenged, this means “to scatter or sprinkle through or by means of a sieve.” (thank you, dictionary.com) Colanders work too.
9. Stir away all clumps.
10. Pour the batter into the muffin tin. Bake for roughly 25 minutes or, until you can stick a knife in (the cupcake. please, please don’t hurt yourself) and it comes out clean.
11. Frosting time. ☺ Warm up the cream cheese a little so it is soft, and whip it together with the confectioners sugar.
12. Add the milk. (City Pages added Guinness instead. WOAH! What a rebel.) The amount of milk (or beer) added will determine how thick/thin your frosting is, so pour wisely.
13. If the cupcakes are cool, frost away!
14. Aaaaand you’re done! Eat, and enjoy.

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