There are about a zillion recipes for Guinness brownies out there. Some use store bought brownie mix, some go from scratch. This year I put all that aside when I saw the Guinness chocolate cakes with Irish Cream filling in SWEET by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh. Without the recommended mini loaf pans, I turned them into Guinness chocolate cupcakes with Irish Cream filling. As usual with an Ottolenghi/Goh recipe, every step is worth the effort and the approach is well thought out. Mascarpone filling punctuates moist cake and the lot is dipped in a rich ganache. The mascarpone sets them apart from the usual whipped cream or cream cheese cupcakes. A heavy layer of Irish cream frosting on top of a brownie has never been my thing. These little cakes prove just a little bit of mascarpone kissed with Irish cream is all you need. Rather than reduce the Guinness, the Ottolenghi/Goh recipe melts the butter with the Guinness. I assumed it helped distribute the Guinness flavor throughout the mix, but the effect wasn’t the same when I tried it with the Ghiradelli brownie mix. Obviously, there’s no comparison between a box mix and a well-developed from scratch recipe, […]
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