Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a Spirited Chocolate Irish Cream Cake! -

No matter how you celebrate St. Patricks’s day, whether you eat corned beef and cabbage, or go out to the local pub and drink green beer, there is no better way to end the day than having a slice of a Spirited Chocolate Irish Cream Cake.

This delicious homemade chocolate cake is drizzled with Bailey’s Irish Cream then frosted with Irish Buttercream Frosting. It’s a nightcap and dessert all in one! If you like Irish Cream, you will love this!

Ingredients:

Chocolate Cake

2 1/4 cups of cake flour
1 cup of quality cocoa
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. almond extract
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup boiling water
1 cup Bailey’s Irish Cream liquor ( used for drizzling over cooked cake)

Preheat oven to 350℉
In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer, add all dry ingredients and blend thoroughly on low speed

add eggs, milk, oil, and extract and blend on medium speed until well combined.

pour boiling water into the mixing bowl and blend on medium speed, batter will be slightly thin

pour batter into two prepared 9″ cake pans
bake for 25 – 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean
remove cake from pan and cool completely on a cooling rack

Irish Cream Buttercream Frosting

3 cups confectioners sugar
3/4 room temperature butter
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup Bailey’s Irish Cream

put all ingredients into a medium sized mixing bowl and mix on low speed until all sugar is moistened

blend on high speed until mixture is light and fluffy

Putting the cake together…

step 1.

place one layer of the cake on a plate or cake stand
using a straw, poke holes randomly through the cake
pour 1/2 cup of Bailey’s Irish Cream over the first layer of cake

step 2.

put one layer of buttercream over the cake
place the second layer of cake over the top of the icing and repeat step 1.
cover the entire cake with the remainder of the icing, and decorate cake as desired.