How to Make Kiss Me I'm Irish cupcakes

How to make Bailey’s Irish Cream Buttercream Frosting

• Start off by mixing the soft butter and shortening together till nice and creamy on medium speed.
• Turn the mixer down to the lowest setting and slowly incorporate the powdered sugar into the shortening mixture.
• Once you have added all the sugar to the mix add in the Baileys Irish Cream.
• Turn the mixer up to medium-high speed and continue mixing for 10 minutes until light and fluffy.

How to Make Vanilla Cupcakes

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line your cupcake pans with your choose of cupcake wrappers.
• Place your self-rising flour, cake flour, and sugar in the bowl of your mixer. Mix them together for a minute or two until they are well combined.
• Cut your butter into tablespoon pieces. Slowly add your butter into the flour mixture one piece at a time continue mixing until you have reached the texture of sand.
• Pour half of your milk into the flour mixture and mix just until the milk is incorporated. Use your rubber spatula to scrape down the sides of your bowl. Add your remaining milk and the vanilla to your batter and mix until combined.
• Slowly add in one egg at a time to the cake batter, making sure each egg is incorporated before adding the next egg.
• Scoop the batter into the prepared cupcake pan, filling them 3/4 of the way full.
• Bake for 10 minutes then rotate the cake pans so the pan that was on the top rack is now on the bottom and the pan that was on the bottom is now on the top rack. Continue to bake for another 10-13 minute until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cupcake.
• Transfer the cupcakes to a cooling rack until they have reached room temperature.

Assembling Kiss Me I'm Irish cupcakes

• While the cupcakes are cooling it is the perfect time to make your Bailey's Buttercream Frosting. After you have made your frosting, set aside about 1/4 cup - 1/2 cup of frosting in a small bowl. Using green food coloring dye it green.
• Once the cupcakes are cool, it is time to pipe the frosting. You are going to want to use the cupcake swirl to make the beautiful puffy frosting top.
• Once you have frosted all of your cupcakes it is time to put the finishing touches on them with frosting 4 leaf clovers.