I will admit that it doesn't quite roll off the tongue as saying Kiss Me, I'm Irish...but it's what I have to work with. I was not a beer fan until college. I was dating a boy(well, man) who was very, very into beer. He often drank what I referred to as motor oil beer. Beer up to that point is that piss colored stuff that you paid too much for at hockey games or the piss colored stuff they handed to you at Frat parties...either way, not so good. At his urging(or maybe it was just his smile :) ), I gave that motor oil a try...and you know what, I was hooked. From that point on, the darker the beer the better. I had a special place in my heart for stouts, especially the chocolate ones. So when I saw that Emiline over at Sugar Plum was hosting an event called The Saint Patty's Day Pub Crawl, and that alcohol was to be in your food, I immediately thought of stout. Now I have seen quite a few cakes made with stout so I knew that I wanted to do something a little different. My favorite … [Read more...]