Chocolate and Guinness cake with frosting

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How to make perfect chocolate Guinness cake

March 7, 2018 • In Entertaining, Baking,

This grown-up bake is rich, dark and delicious. A lovely way to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, adding Guinness to the classic chocolate sponge gives it extra punch.

Follow the steps below for the perfect stout-spiked cake, then finish off with shiny white sour-cream icing for the full Guinness effect. Cheers!

INGREDIENTS

100g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing

75g dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)

200ml Guinness, plus extra for the icing

200g plain flour

20g cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking powder

2 large free-range eggs

200g golden caster sugar

SOUR CREAM ICING

3 tablespoons sour cream

200g icing sugar

METHOD

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Take the cake out of the oven, cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.

For the icing, beat together the sour cream and icing sugar until smooth, then stir in 2 tablespoons of Guinness. If it becomes too loose, add more icing sugar. Spread over the cooled cake and serve.

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