What goes with an Irish car bomb Halloween costume? When you don’t like beer, Irish car bomb cupcakes. What happens when that cupcake recipe has way too many ingredients that are not already in the house? You make hipster cakes.

I started with this recipe for car bomb cupcakes. These cupcakes sound excellent but filling cupcakes with ganache does not. So I made the cupcakes with a few changes. Instead of Guiness, I used PBR. I didn’t have any sour cream, so I used milk.

I wanted a chocolate frosting, so I went with a chocolate cream cheese recipe. I started with this cream cheese frosting recipe and added unsweetened cocoa powder. We didn’t have whiskey but we did have some Green label! I boiled it so I wouldn’t get any kids drunk. Hot scotch does not smell good. I used about half of a shot. The recipe made a lot of frosting so I piled it on and still had a little left over.

Put it all together and you have PBR and a shot cupcakes!