Chocolate Irish Cream Muffins are tasty St. Patrick’s Day treats with chocolate chips and cream cheese and topped with Irish cream icing.
If you’re looking for a simple, yet delicious recipe for St. Patrick’s Day (or any time), may I suggest taking a peek at this one for Chocolate Irish Cream Muffins? It’s always fun to find different recipes I can make for St. Patrick’s Day. This year I made these muffins after making several changes (to suit our taste) to a recipe I found online!
Chocolate Irish Cream Muffins are dense chocolate muffins, with chocolate chips AND a surprise Irish cream-flavored cream cheese filling inside. They are drizzled with an icing (also flavored with Irish Cream liqueur) and decorative green sugar sprinkles.
These muffins are fairly simple to make and are delicious treats to be enjoyed for breakfast or as a snack! Here’s how to make Chocolate Irish Cream Muffins.
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Make Irish-Inspired Cream Cheese Filling
Place softened cream cheese in a medium bowl. Add a couple Tablespoons of Irish Cream liqueur to the cream cheese and beat this well using an electric mixer. Continue beating until the filling is smooth and creamy.
This is the Irish-inspired cream cheese filling that will be baked into the middle of the muffins. When you take a bite of the chocolate muffin, this will be the flavorful, surprise filling inside! Set the filling aside while you make the muffin batter.
Prepare the Muffin Batter
Whisk a large egg, milk, water, and melted (but cooled) butter in a large bowl. These are the “wet” ingredients for the muffins. It is very important that the melted butter has cooled to room temperature, or the heat could “scramble” the egg and you don’t want that to happen!
Sift all-purpose flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, granulated sugar, and salt together. Add these “dry” ingredients to the egg mixture in the large bowl.
Toss in half a cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips, and stir well, to combine the wet and dry ingredients into the finished batter for the muffins. Try not to overmix this batter.
Fill The Muffin Tins For Baking
Generously grease (or coat with non-stick baking spray) a standard 12-cup muffin pan. Use a spoon to place batter in each muffin cup about 1/3 of the way full.
Add 1 teaspoon of the reserved cream cheese filling to the middle of each portion of batter. If you have additional filling left over after dividing it between the 12 muffin cups, add a bit more to each one. Use all the filling.
Top the muffins with the remaining batter, equally dividing it between the muffin cups, making sure to cover the cream cheese filling. When done, the muffin cups should be about 3/4 full. Now it’s time to bake some yummy chocolate Irish cream muffins!
Bake The Muffins
Bake the muffins in a preheated 375°F. oven for 19-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out free of batter. The muffins will probably have a little dome on them, due to the cream cheese filling inside!
Let the muffins cool for 2-3 minutes, then carefully transfer them out of the pan and onto a wire rack to finish cooling completely. While the chocolate Irish cream muffins cool, prepare the Irish cream icing that will be drizzled on top.
Prepare Irish Cream Icing For Muffins
In a small bowl, stir together powdered sugar, Irish cream liqueur (and a few drops of water, if needed) until the icing is smooth (lump-free), and is thin enough to drizzle over the muffins.
Place a piece of parchment paper, plastic wrap or foil under the wire rack holding the muffins (for easier cleanup!). Use a spoon to drizzle the icing over the top of completely cool muffins (if they’re warm, the icing will melt).
Immediately sprinkle the muffin tops with green colored decorative sugar (or sprinkles) while the icing is still “wet” so it will adhere.
Serve And Enjoy Chocolate Irish Cream Muffins
Let the icing “firm up”, and then the chocolate Irish cream muffins are ready to be served. When you bite or cut into each muffin, you will see the Irish cream flavored filling inside, adding extra flavor to these delicious treats!
Be sure to store any leftover muffins in an airtight container, for maximum freshness. You can also freeze the baked muffins to save a few for another time!
I really hope you have the chance to make these yummy muffins, and trust you’ll enjoy them as we do! They’re a fun way to celebrate St. Patick’s Day (or any day, for that matter!).
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Recipe adapted from: Baileys, Cream Cheese and Chocolate Muffins Recipe – Food.com (submitted by Kitchen_Princess)
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Chocolate Irish Cream Muffins are tasty St. Patrick's Day treats with chocolate chips and cream cheese and topped with Irish cream icing.
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened to room temp.
- 2½ Tablespoons Irish Cream liqueur
- 1 large egg
- ¾ cup low-fat milk
- ⅓ cup water
- 3½ Tablespoons butter melted and cooled
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 3 Tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons Irish cream liqueur
- water drops (as needed)
Preheat oven to 375℉ (190℃). Grease or spray the muffin cups of a standard-sized 12 cup muffin tin.
Place soft cream cheese in a medium bowl. Add 2½Tbls. Irish Cream liqueur and beat well using electric mixer. Continue beating until filling is smooth and creamy.
Whisk egg, milk, water, and melted (but cooled) butter in a large bowl. Sift flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, granulated sugar and salt together; add this to the egg mixture. Add chocolate chips; Stir well, to fully combine batter.
Fill muffin cups with batter 1/3 of the way full. Add 1 tsp. of reserved cream cheese filling on top of each muffins batter. Additional filling left over? Add a bit more to each one. Top with remaining batter, equally dividing it between muffin cups, covering cream cheese filling. Muffin cups should be 3/4 full.
Bake at 375°F. for 19-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let muffins cool 2-3 minutes, then transfer them out of pan and onto a wire rack to cool completely.
While muffins cool, make icing. In a small bowl, stir together powdered sugar, Irish cream liqueur. Add drops of water, if needed, until icing is smooth (lump-free), and is thin enough to drizzle over muffins.
Place parchment paper, plastic wrap or foil under wire rack with muffins (for easier cleanup!). Use a spoon to drizzle icing on top of completely cool muffins (if warm, icing will melt). Immediately sprinkle with green decorative sugar while icing is still "wet" so it adheres. Let icing get firm, then serve and enjoy!
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