Stop everything and check out these rainbow hi hat cupcakes

These are some of the coolest cupcakes I've ever seen! They're by blogger Craftstorming, who has the recipe and writes: "Below the white chocolate shell is a fluffy rainbow of marshmallow icing and hidden below that is a pot of ‘gold’ caramel. Continuing with all things Irish the dark chocolate cupcakes contain whiskey." Wow!! Via Flickr.





and what they look like on the outside:

St. Patrick's Day Irish Cake Bomb cupcake for sale at Cupcake Royale in Seattle

St. Patrick's Day excitement is in full swing already at Seattle bakery Cupcake Royale, who say: "We've added Elliott Bay's organic No Doubt Stout to our moist chocolate cake and filled it with a bomb of Jameson Whiskey-infused buttercream frosting. Then we covered it with a whipped Irish Cream frosting, dusted with gold and sprinkled with shamrocks." Via Cupcake Royale on Facebook. Visit cupcakeroyale.com for locations and more information.

Guinness Stout cupcakes with whiskey ganache and Bailey's Irish Cream frosting for St. Patrick's Day with recipe link

Blogger Erin over at Lemon Sugar has made some extra boozed up St. Patrick's Day filled cupcakes (the shamrock toppers add an extra special touch), and she has the recipe along with some encouragement for you:

I know that some of these filled cupcake recipes seem intimidating when you read the recipe. There are quite a few steps involved, but it's definitely worth it. They payoff for your time is extraordinary. You can spend an hour making and frosting cupcakes from a box mix, or you can spend 90 minutes making these. And once you make your first successful filled cupcake, you'll be hooked. Using a pastry bag to frost cupcakes seems "fancy" but it's actually quite a time saver. I can frost 24 cupcakes in about a minute. You can buy a 16 inch pastry bag for about $4.00, and a tip for about $2.00.