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Chocolate Guinness Cake Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Nikchick / All my dishes 2 years, 3 months ago I made this cake for a friend's birthday and received raves from everyone who tried it. It's become our very favorite, chocolaty and moist without being too sweet. Prep:15m Cook:50m Servings:10	Nikchick
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Ingredients

Cake:

1 cup Guinness

1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter

1/2 cup cocoa

2 cups superfine sugar

3/4 cup sour cream

2 eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

Frosting:

8 ounces cream cheese

1 1/4 cups powdered sugar

1/2 cup heavy cream

Directions

Preheat oven to 350° and grease and line with parchment paper a 9-inch springform pan.

Pour the Guinness into a large saucepan and add the sliced butter. Heat until the butter is melted and remove from the heat. Whisk in the cocoa and sugar. In a separate bowl, beat the sour cream with the eggs and vanilla. Add the sour cream mixture to the Guinness mixture in the saucepan. Finally, beat in the flour and baking soda.

Pour the batter into the greased and lined springform pan and bake for 45 minutes to an hour. (I baked mine for 53-55 minutes, checking with a toothpick for doneness and it came out well. Your oven may vary.) Cool completely in the pan on a wire rack.

For the frosting, beat the powdered sugar and cream cheese together until well combined and creamy. Add the cream and beat again until it's a spreadable consistency. I found slowly adding the cream and beating the icing very well gave excellent results. At first there seems like a lot of frosting for just the top of a 9-inch cake but don't skimp! The idea is to frost the top of the cake until it resembles the frothy head of a pint of Guinness. It's quite dramatic and lovely.

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Comments

adriana 2 years, 3 months ago said:
What is guiness???m beer?

nikchick 2 years, 3 months ago said:
Yes, it's a brand of beer. An Irish stout. It's got a wikipedia page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness

jo_jo_ba 2 years ago said:
I love this cake, made it for my fiance and sister and the batter as well as the finished product were the tastiest chocolate goodies I have had in a LONG time!

paprikamama 2 years ago said:
Oh Im Making this for the 4th...Thanks so much.....yummy..

mbe 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Oooooo.. My brother just left gave me an oven and this is going to be my first recipe tomorrow!!! Thanx.

mbe 1 year, 10 months ago said:
I upped the butter and sour cream, the first by accident, the second to use up the leftover sour cream. I also used 200g dark chocolate instead of the cacao powder as I didn't have the latter.
Spectacular!! Great Guinnessey flavour!! Love it!!

jess 1 year, 9 months ago said:
I really have to try this cake. Guinness is one of my favorite beers to drink and if you add it with chocolate then my goodness....lol

jackkekempsey 1 year, 9 months ago said:
What do you is really have to tried to do cake..."guinness was think like a beers"
i dont make chocolate cake.....lol

lor 1 year, 9 months ago said:
Ohhhhhhhhhh... you don't have to twist my arm ;-)
My mother and her family were from Ireland and I've got the Irish Blarney in my blood lol There was always Stout or Porter in our house when I was a wee one. As for Guinness... it's the best. I can't wait to try this cake recipe. I know that hubby will love it!!!
Jo_Jo you are too funny! I love your honesty!!! The batter tasted good too huh ;-)

kjroxx 1 year, 5 months ago said:
I made this cake last night and it was so easy I kept checking to see if I had missed something! What a taste sensation though. Took it to a friends house this morning and she ate obscene quantities of it, it really was perfect. You are so right on all counts - moist, chocolately and not overly sweet; just the perfect volume of frosting for that sweet, rich 'head'. This is a 5 star recipe that I will make for many years, thank you so much.

kjroxx 1 year, 5 months ago said:
Oh and mine cooked to perfection in 52 mins!

gmm1966 1 year, 4 months ago said:
This cake sounds great. I am definitely making this over the weekend! Thank for sharing!!

winkaway 11 months, 1 week ago said:

Looks so delicious!

miezetatze 11 months ago said:
Plagiarism alert, this cake appeared in Nigella Lawson's Feast. Please credit your sources.

lewisr 3 months, 3 weeks ago said:
It also looks remarkably like the recipe from Justin O'Connor, of Guiness.

cheelathebroomwoman 3 months, 3 weeks ago said:
This is Nigella Lawson's recipe! It's from "Feast"!

buzzmonk 4 weeks ago said:
I loved the idea of this recepie but it was more like sweet chocolate beer bread. I followed the recepie to a T and it was heavy but dry and it didn't jump out at me. but I altered it and now I have people begging me to make it all the time.

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buzzmonk 4 weeks ago said:
I added one packet of dry jell-o pudding mix to the batter. I also whipped in a little vanilla vodka into the frosting recepie. Without over stating. It kicked ass

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