Chocolate and Guinness Cake
This Chocolate and Guinness Cake is intended to look like a pint or an Irish Coffee. It is rich and decadent and has a cream cheese and Guinness icing. A really grown up chocolate cake!
Ingredients
For the cake:
- 300ml Guinness or other stout
- 150g dark chocolate
- 200g butter
- 500g soft light brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 350g self raising flour
For the icing:
- 400g cream cheese (full fat)
- 25ml Guinness
- 200g icing sugar
To garnish:
- Dark chocolate, grated
Method
Preheat the oven to 160°C.
Melt the chocolate and butter with Guinness over a bain marie. Cool slightly, then whisk in the eggs and sugar, then fold in the flour.
Line a 25cm deep cake tin with greaseproof paper, pour the cake mix in and bake for 1 hour. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
To make the icing, whisk together the cream cheese, icing sugar and Guinness.
Pour the icing onto the cake, spread with a palate knife for an even thickness, then grate the chocolate over the top.
Ingredients
For the cake:
- 300ml Guinness or other stout
- 150g dark chocolate
- 200g butter
- 500g soft light brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 350g self raising flour
For the icing:
- 400g cream cheese (full fat)
- 25ml Guinness
- 200g icing sugar
To garnish:
- Dark chocolate, grated
Method
Preheat the oven to 160°C.
Melt the chocolate and butter with Guinness over a bain marie. Cool slightly, then whisk in the eggs and sugar, then fold in the flour.
Line a 25cm deep cake tin with greaseproof paper, pour the cake mix in and bake for 1 hour. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
To make the icing, whisk together the cream cheese, icing sugar and Guinness.
Pour the icing onto the cake, spread with a palate knife for an even thickness, then grate the chocolate over the top.
