These Easy Irish Cream Cupcakes are the perfect treat for the season. These Baileys Cupcakes are made with just a few simple ingredients.
They have a delicious chocolate and Irish cream flavor and are frosted with a Baileys buttercream icing, a perfect dessert idea.
This is one of our easy and fun St. Patrick's Day treats you will want to bookmark for later.
Why You Will Love This Recipe
Easy Recipe. What makes this baileys cupcake recipe easy is tat it starts with a boxed cake mix and a few simple ingredients.
Delicious. These delicious chocolate cupcakes are a rich, moist chocolate cupcake with the infusion of sweet Irish cream. Topped with a creamy frosting that has a lovely Irish Cream Flavor.
Festive and Fun. These are the perfect treat if you are heading to a St. Patrick's Day party. These Boozy cupcakes have Irish Cream so this dessert is best served to the grown-ups only.
If you love the Irish Cream Chocolate flavor, try my Irish Cream Brownies.
Ingredients
- Chocolate Cake Mix
- Egg
- Oil
- Baileys Irish Cream - made from irish whiskey and cream.I prefer the Baileys Original Irish Cream or the Baileys Light Irish Cream.
- Powdered sugar
- butter
- heavy cream
- Festive sprinkles - For the sprinkles, you can find them here. I suggest ordering them early so you have them in time for the holiday. They also go great on ice cream too!
See recipe card for details.
Equipment
- large mixing bowl or bowl of a stand mixer with paddle attachment or
- electric hand mixer
- cupcake liners
- cupcake tin
- wire rack
- piping tip and large piping bag
Variations and Substitutions
- You can sub vanilla buttercream for the Irish Cream Frosting.
- Instead of Baileys chocolate cupcakes, you can make Baileys Vanilla cupcakes with a vanilla cake mix.
- Feel free to experiment with other irish cream liqueur brands if you have one you like.
- You can top with chocolate flakes or chocolate shavings in place of the sprinkles.
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For a kid-friendly cupcake recipe, you can check out this Shamrock Cupcake recipe.
How to Make Baileys Irish Cream Cupcakes
Step 1 - Prepare Chocolate Cake mix batter. Add Irish Cream.
Step 2 - Pour into prepared baking tin.
Step 3 - Prepare Frosting. When cool, frost cupcakes with piping tip.
Step 4 - Add festive sprinkles.
If you love these cupcakes, be sure to try my Chocolate Mint Poke Cake and these Lucky Charms Cookies.
More St. Patrick Dessert Recipe Ideas
- St. Patrick Day Dinner Ideas
- Bailey's Irish Cream Brownies
- Easy Rainbow Cupcakes - colorful cupcakes topped with a candy rainbow.
- Festive St. Patrick's Day Dessert Recipes
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- You can make the cupcakes the day before. Just wrap cupcakes in plastic wrap and chill until ready to frost.
- You can make the frosting ahead of time and keep in in the refrigerator until ready to use.
- This recipe also works as a cake recipe, but you will need to double the frosting recipe or make it a naked cake (with a little icing on the sides.
- Store cupcakes in an airtight container.
📖 Recipe
Irish Cream Cookies
Equipment
- Large Bowl
- electric mixer
- cupcake tin or muffin tin
- piping bag and tip
Ingredients
- 1 box Chocolate Cake Mix
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup water
- ⅓ cup Irish Cream Liqueur
- ¼ cup butter, softened
Baileys Frosting
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- ½ cup room temperature butter
- ¼ cup Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur
- ¼ cup Heavy cream or milk
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Heat oven to 350 degrees f.
- Line cupcake pan with paper liners.
- In a large bowl, combine cake mix with eggs, oil and water per package directions. Add Irish cream and mix with a hand mixer or stand mixer on low speed until blended.
- Pour chocolate cupcake batter into cupcake pan and bake cupcakes 18-22 minutes until a toothpick inserted in cupcake comes out clean.
- Let cool before frosting.
Irish Cream Buttercream Frosting
- In a large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, Mix softened butter, Irish Cream Liqueur, milk and 1 cup sugar.
- Gradually add remaining sugar and blend well after each cup,
- A stand or hand mixer is recommended for making this frosting.
- Frost cooled cupcakes with a knife or using a decorating tip.
Nutrition
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Tamara
Yay, blog twins! They look SO good. Irish Cream is a flavor I LOVE. And in cupcakes is probably my favorite way.
Raquel
Blog twinning with you is the best! 🙂
Sue
Could you use a brownie mix? Add same amount of baileys, water and butter?
Kimberly
I’m confused… there are no eggs in this recipe? Just the butter, milk and Irish cream added to cake mix? I want to try it but don’t want to mess up the cake mix I have
Raquel
Yes, add eggs as directed on cake mix package.