Rich Guinness Cake

Engineer in the Kitchen's Note:

Made this as a dessert for St Patrick. Got the recipe from Veg Times. Used it with my recipe of Guinness Syrup (#167683).

• Total Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 10

• 2/3 cup stout beer, such as Guinness
• 10 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick plus 2 Tbs.)
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 large egg
• 1 large egg yolk
• 2/3 cup sour cream

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F Butter 8-inch round cake pan. Line with parchment or wax paper. Butter paper.
2. Bring stout and butter to a simmer in heavy saucepan over medium heat. Add cocoa; whisk until smooth. Cool slightly.
3. Whisk flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in large bowl to blend; set aside.
4. Beat egg, yolk and sour cream with electric mixer in another large bowl to blend. Add stout-chocolate mixture to egg mixture, and beat just to combine.
5. Add flour mixture and beat 30 seconds on slowest speed. Fold batter using rubber spatula until completely combined; pour into prepared pan.
6. Bake about 50 to 55 minutes, or until tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Transfer to rack; cool.
7. Once it is cool, prepare syrup (can use my recipe of Guinness syrup). Cut a piece of the cake, put in a glass, add some ice cream and drizzle the warm syrup on top. Enjoy!

Reviews

[Suzieqb8]

This cake was amazing! And the guinness syrup was a must on top, making it even better. I waited for the cake to cool before putting on the syrup and let it soak right in on the top. Then for serving I drizzled a little more on. It gave it that extra guinness taste that made it perfect!

[54]

this cake is WONDERFUL! of course, i might be a little biased as guinness is my favorite beer but, really, guinness and chocolate. how could you go wrong? it was very easy to prepare. i didn't change the recipe at all (well, ok, i did serve it with fresh raspberries on the side. and i don't keep waxpaper/parchment on hand for some reason so i used non-stick foil to line the pan) and it came out exactly as expected. it also freezes and reheats well so, by all means make an extra one.