Chocolate Guinness Cake

[Anne]

This is, hands down, the BEST chocolate cake recipe I have ever gotten my hands on.* Dense and fudgy!* The frosting is make to "look" like the head that sits on the top of a glass of Guinness/stout.*

I will crosspost this recipe to the recipe section....just wanted to share it with everyone.


For the cake:

1 cup Guinness
1 stick plus 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
2 cups superfine sugar
3/4 cup sour cream
2 eggs
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

For the frosting:

8 oz cream cheese
1 1/4 cups confectioners sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream


Preheat the oven to 350, and butter and line a 9 inch springform pan.

Pour the Guinness into a large wide saucepan, add the butter - in spoons or slices - and heat until the butter's melted, at which time you should whisk in the cocoa and sugar.* Beat the sour cream wiht the eggs and vanilla and then pour into the brown, buttery, beery* *pan and finally whisk in the flour and baking soda.*

Pour the cake batter into the greased and lined pan and bake for 45 minutes (to an hour) in the 350 oven.* Leave to cool completely in the pan on a cooling rack, as it is quite a damp cake.

When the cake is cold, sit it on a flat platter or cake stand and frost.* Lightly whip the cream cheese until smooth, sift in the confectioners sugar and then beat both together.* (You can use a food processor for this step, but just blitz the cream cheese first, before adding the confectioners, to smooth out the lumps.*

Add the cream and beat again until it makes a spreadable consistency.* Ice only the top of the cake so that it resembles the frothy top of a pint of stout.

[imported_zoezoe]

I'm gonna make this for SU for Christmas; he loves Guinness! Thanks!

[Allie]

I made this for Christmas and both sides of my family raved over it! It is extremely easy and delicious. Thanks so much for sharing this recipe, Anne!

[Zamode]

Good Lord, I must try this. I shared it with some of my caking buddies, thanks so much for the post!

[Anne]

Oh! I just noticed this!

Have you tried it yet? Let me know when you do! You won't be disappointed. Promise!

[Zamode]

Even the batter is good! Grabbed a spoon for the batter, finished the beer in the bottle and baked the cake! ;D Thanks Anne!

[TangerineFizz]

I'm totally going to turn this into cupcakes for my birthday!! whoo hooo!!