Chocolate Guinness cookies with Bailey’s frosting recipe - IrishCentral.com

REFRIGERATE   350F  bake 13 minutes
The original recipe, on A Beautiful Bite, said these cookies “will have your Irish (or non-Irish) eyes smiling”. That sounds about right to us. The three flavors - chocolate, Guinness, and Bailey’s Irish cream - go perfectly together.
Makes: 12
Prep time:20 mins
Cook time:13 mins
Total time:33 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temp
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup Guinness
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 2/3 cup cocoa
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
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• For the Irish buttercream frosting:
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temp
• 3 Tbsp Bailey’s Irish cream
• 2 Tbsp milk

Method:
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Mix the cream, butter, sugar, eggs and Guinness in a mixer, on medium, until light and fluffy.
In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt.
Add the flour mixture by the tablespoon to the sugar, egg, and Guinness mixture. Mix at a medium speed until it comes together.
Refrigerate for one hour.
Drop a heaped tablespoon onto cookie sheets.
Back for 13 minutes.
Take out of the oven and let them rest.
Place all the frosting ingredients into a mixer and beat until light and fluffy.
Spread on cooled cookies.

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