Chocolate Stout Cupcakes with Irish Cream Frosting

WOW, great St. Patty's Day dessert or anytime you've got some Guinness and Baileys laying around. These are really rich and moist with a good stouty flavor topped with a irish-creamy buttery frosting. I made them for a St. Patty's day dinner and it made 3 Dozen Cupcakes.

Chocolate Stout Cupcakes
1 1/2 cup stout beer
1 cup unsalted butter
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
2/3 cup sour cream

Preheat oven to 350F.
In a sauce pot, melt the butter and add the stout. Once simmering, remove from heat and whisk in cocoa powder, let cool. In a large bowl, beat eggs and sour cream. Beat in stout mixture. In another large bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Add the stout/sour cream mixture into the dry ingredients and beat briefly to combine, then fold batter until mixed thoroughly. Fill cupcake liners 3/4 of the way and bake for approx 17min.

Irish Cream Butter Frosting
6 cups confectioners sugar
1 cup butter unsalted
2 tsp vanilla
1 mini bottle of Baileys Irish Cream
1/4 cup Crisco
                                                                                                             Beat on high for ~5min until mixed and creamy.
Again, I used my completely hetero non-gay frosting decorator on the shell tip and round tip for the different spiral tops, then regular green sugar sprinkles