Frosted Guinness Chocolate Cupcakes

🧂 Ingredients

• ½ cup Guinnes stout
• 5 tablespoons Butter – unsalted softened
• 6 tablespoons Unsweetened cocoa powder – sifted
• 1 cup Granulated sugar
• 6 tablespoons Greek Yogurt – plain
• 1 large Egg room temperature
• 1 ½ teaspoons Vanilla extract
• 1 cup Cake or Pastry flour – sifted
• 1 ¼ teaspoons Baking soda

Instructions

• 1 Pre-heat the oven to 350F (180C) and line a 12 cup muffin pan with cupcake
  liners.
• 2 In a medium bowl add the butter and Guinness and place them on a pot over
  medium-low heat until the butter melts. Remove the bowl from the heat. Add cocoa
  powder and sugar to the bowl and whisk everything together.
• 3 In a small bowl mix together the greek yogurt, egg and vanilla. Add the egg mix
  to the Guinness mixture then add flour and baking soda and whisk together until
  smooth.
• 4 Pour the batter into the prepared cupcake tins and bake for approximately 20-25
  minutes or until a toothpick inserted in a cupcake comes out clean.
• 5 Let the cupcakes cool on a wire rack completely before decorating them with the
  Swiss Meringue Buttercream. Enjoy!

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