~ Stout ~ Recipe

How to make it

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• Have the oven set and heated to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 10-inch fluted tube pan,then coat the inside with cocoa.
• Beat the crap out of the cream cheese,confectioner sugar,the one egg,and Irish Cream Liqueur in a bowl until smooth and creamy...Set aside.
• In another bowl,beat the cake mix,pudding,the three eggs,oil,until thick and smooth...then slowly beat the Irish Stout into the batter.
• Spoon about one third of the batter into the pan,layer the Irish Cream filling on top,then spoon remaining cake batter over the other.
• Bake for about 40 or 50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• Slide a thin spatula around the edges to loosen the cake...then let it rest in the pan for about fifteen minutes.
• Turn the cake on it's head to release and alllow to cool completely on a rack.
• Now while the cake is at it's cooling stage...melt the butter in a pan and over medium heat,stir in the sugar and Irish Whiskey...Bring to a boil,stirring to dissolve the sugar...reduce the heat to low,and simmer until thickened...about ten minutes or so.
• Transfer the cake to a serving platter...and brush generously with Irish Whiskey Glaze over cooled cake several times...allowing the glaze to soak in.
• ~ Cowboy Builders Botched Stonehenge ~
• Just as much as a triumph as a disaster.
• The triumph is that it is still there.
• But...Who would be so 'crazy' as to work in stone as if they were wood?
• As the stone was being lifted...the darn think fell and broke in half.
• After a great deal of spittin',and kickin',and cursin' your 'Luck'
• A decent builder would find another one intact and do it properly.
• But...NO!
• What did they do?
• They put one 'broken' bit on top of another 'broken' bit and prayed to the Blessed Mother that it would stay...It Didn't!
• But,the neat thing about 'Stonehenge' is that it is aligned directly on the mid-summer sunrise,in that the two of the stones frame the sunrise...like the sights of a rifle.
• As the stone tumbled down they did not bother to fix it.
• Catastrophy...or...Success?
• It's all in the eyes of the beholder!
• Rebuild it?
• Nah!
• Not in this lifetime!
• Oh! For the remainder of the Irish Whiskey?
• Cheers!