This recipe is so delicious that it’s worth going to the effort of getting an unusual ingredient. (The photo is pretty bad, I know.I should be making these again in the foreseeable future and will re-take it.)
Children will not like them, as they’re very strongly flavored. The alcohol in the beer bakes out, of course, but you can definitely taste it in the finished product. And I use bittersweet chocolate for the glaze, but you can use semisweet if you want a kinder, gentler version. I got this recipe from the King Arthur Flour catalog several years ago and ended up making it for a reception after a Celtic-themed concert. The Irish like their beer, don’t they? Make sure that you include a menu card telling people what these are. They are seriously, seriously chocolatey and seriously, seriously rich. I have made them much smaller than the original recipe.