These Green Velvet Cupcakes with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe are a perfect St. Patrick’s Day Dessert! These are one of my most favourite cupcakes and they are so festive looking too! The Shamrock quins I used can be found at The Bulk Barn in case you want to replicate this look!
Green Velvet Cupcakes with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting
(Yield 12 cupcakes)
INGREDIENTS
Cupcakes:
1 1/4 cup Flour
1 cup Sugar
1 tbsp Cocoa Powder
1/4 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1 Egg
1/2 cup Oil
1/2 cup Milk
1 tsp Vinegar
1/2 tsp Vanilla
Green Food Coloring
Frosting:
8 oz softened Cream Cheese
4 tbsp softened Butter
3 cups Powdered Sugar
3 tbsp Baileys
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350.
Line a muffin pan with paper liners.
Beat egg and then add remaining wet ingredients and whisk until blended.
In a separate bowl whisk together all the dry ingredients.
Add wet ingedients to the dry stir until combined.
Now add food coloring until you reach the desired color.
Fill cupcake liners about 2/3 full.
Bake about 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.
Allow to cool on wire rack.
Cream together cream cheese, butter and Baileys.
Gradually add in powdered sugar and whip until desired consistency is reached.
Transfer to zippered bag or piping bag and pipe frosting onto cupcakes.
Green Velvet Cupcakes with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- Cupcakes:
- 1 1/4 cup Flour
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 tbsp Cocoa Powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 Egg
- 1/2 cup Oil
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 1 tsp Vinegar
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla
- Green Food Coloring
- Frosting:
- 8 oz softened Cream Cheese
- 4 tbsp softened Butter
- 3 cups Powdered Sugar
- 3 tbsp Baileys
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Line a muffin pan with paper liners.
- Beat egg and then add remaining wet ingredients and whisk until blended.
- In a separate bowl whisk together all the dry ingredients.
- Add wet ingedients to the dry stir until combined.
- Now add food coloring until you reach the desired color.
- Fill cupcake liners about 2/3 full.
- Bake about 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.
- Allow to cool on wire rack.
- Cream together cream cheese, butter and Baileys.
- Gradually add in powdered sugar and whip until desired consistency is reached.
- Transfer to zippered bag or piping bag and pipe frosting onto cupcakes.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
Liz Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys cooking and baking, food photography, and reading.