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Chocolate Guinness Cake!
A Fudgey and delicious chocolate Guinness cake - a delightful sponge with chocolate and Guinness, with a cream cheese frosting and more.
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Category:
Dessert
Type:
Cake
Keyword:
Chocolate, Guinness
Prep Time:
30
minutes
minutes
Cook Time:
45
minutes
minutes
Cooling & Decorating Time:
2
hours
hours
Total Time:
3
hours
hours
15
minutes
minutes
Servings:
15
slices
Author:
Jane's Patisserie
Ingredients
Cake
175
g
unsalted butter
150
ml
Guinness
50
g
cocoa powder
250
g
light brown soft sugar
125
ml
whole milk
3
medium
eggs
250
g
plain flour
1
tsp
bicarbonate of soda
Decoration
150
g
unsalted buter
(room temp)
150
g
icing sugar
300
g
full-fat soft cream cheese
1
tsp
vanilla extract
Chocolate shavings
Grams
-
Ounces
Instructions
Cake
Preheat the oven to 160ºc/140ºfan and line two 20cm/8" round tins.
In a pan, add the butter, and heat until melted.
Take the pan off the heat, and pour in the Guinness, cocoa powder, sugar, milk and eggs.
Whisk the mixture together until smooth.
Add the plain flour, and bicarbonate of soda, and mix briefly until smooth.
Split the mixture evenly between the two tins, and bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes, or until baked through.
Once baked, leave to cool full in the tins.
Decoration
Beat the room temp unsalted butter on it's own in a bowl for a few minutes to loosen it.
Add in the icing sugar, and beat again - I beat this for about 5 minutes, to make it really smooth.
Make sure the cream cheese doesn't have any excess water - I find it best to add it to a bowl first just to make sure.
Add in the cream cheese, and vanilla and beat. At first, it may look a little weird, but just keep on beating until it is smooth, and creamy.
Spread half of the frosting onto the first layer of the cake, then add the second layer of cake.
Add on the rest of the frosting, then sprinkle over some grated chocolate and enjoy!
Notes
This cake will last for 3+ days in the fridge (it must be kept in the fridge due to the cream cheese frosting).
If you want to go alcohol free, use full-fat Coca Cola
You must use full-fat ingredients in this bake for best results.
I use this
cocoa powder
.
I use this
stand mixer
.