Cake #64 Banana Whiskey Cupcakes

Saint Patrick's Day is my husband's favorite holiday. He is a part of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick, he works at the Irish Festival every year, and for the majority of his life he walked in an Irish parade. In fact, he showed up to school on Friday in a kelley green blazer. He is Irish through and through and when our daughter was born with red hair, he had recieved his Saint Patrick's day present for years to come. This Saint Patrick's day we are six months pregnant with our first son, and we are naming him Liam, which is another amazing gift for Ted, a boy with an Irish name that is a variation of Ted's own middle name, William.

So, it should not have come to a surprise to me that when I went to make my cake of the week, a simple banana cupcake, that he would want to made some adjustments, like dying the batter green and adding a bit of Michael Collins to the batter as well as to the glaze on the top. The cupcake itself was simple, eggs, flour, sugar, cornstarch, butter, vanilla, baking powder, and bananas. Then we add a shot of whiskey to the batter and for the glaze we mixed honey and whiskey, topped with a sliced piece a banana and viola we have Irish Banana Whiskey Cupcakes, or as Ted called them, the "Michael Collin's favorite".

Here is the book's original Banana Cupcakes with a passionfruit glaze:

Here is our Irish modified cupcakes:

In a couple more months our Irish boy will be born and I can only hope he loves my cupcakes as much as our Irish princess...