Happy Fake Patty's Day

In honor of Hoboken Fake Patty's Day I decided to make Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes. Hoboken celebrates St. Patrick's Day the Saturday before the actual St. Patrick's day the rest of the world celebrates. This day is CRAZY as people come from all over the city to wait in lines that start forming at 7am outside the many Irish bars that line Washington Street. As I live right on the main drive I get to sit back on my fire escape and watch not only the drunken stumbling of thousands of 20 somethings, but the parade as well. It proves to be quite entertaining.
But back to the cupcakes. I scoped out this recipe from Smitten Kitchen weeks ago and I have just been waiting, none too patiently, for this day to roll around. While I haven't actually eaten one of these in its complete form I can honestly tell you that all of the components are fantastic. This is Irish love at first taste.

Please follow the link for the recipe and instructions.
Edited to Add: Now that I have actually eaten one of these I can say...yummy. The chocolate cake isn't too sweet and the icing is strongly flavored of Bailey's (I did add a little extra). They compliment each other nicely. There is only a hint of Jameson in the filling.

I followed the instructions on the website and made a double serving of the filling as suggested but in the end I didn't use all of it. I probably only used half. I think I didn't cut out as much of the cake as other people did. This was fine with me.

My recipe made 20 mini cupcakes and 9 large cupcakes. This recipe would have made about 18 large cupcakes for me as my cupcake pans are larger than average. I am estimating the calories in these as I didn't use all the filling, or the icing, and I made large and small cupcakes...but I *think* there are about 425 calories in each of the large cupcakes.