Jamie Magazine
By Laura Fyfe
Chocolate Guinness Cake
1 hr 10 mins
Not Too Tricky
serves 10
About the recipe
With a heady mix of Guinness and chocolate, this cake is a grown-up treat. Rich and dark, the velvety bitterness of the Guinness brings out the flavour of the chocolate, so it packs a punch, while lending the sponge a subtle tang. The richness is balanced by the sweetness of the sour cream icing, which makes the cake look like the famous Irish stout – black with a creamy head. Cheers!
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Ingredients
110g 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
3 large free-range eggs
200g golden caster sugar
SOUR CREAM ICING
3 tablespoons sour cream
200g icing sugar
Method
- Cube the butter and chop the chocolate.
- Put the butter and chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water and allow to melt. Remove from the heat and let it cool to room temperature.
- Stir in the Guinness – don’t worry if it seizes or splits, it’ll come back together when mixed with the other ingredients.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4. Grease a 23cm cake tin with butter.
- In a medium bowl, mix the flour, cocoa and baking powder until combined.
- In another bowl, beat the eggs and sugar for about 3 minutes with an electric mixer until fluffy.
- Beat half the chocolate mixture into the eggs until combined. Add half the flour, then combine again. Repeat with the remaining flour and chocolate.
- Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 40 to 45 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean. If the top is colouring too much after 30 minutes, cover it with tin foil.
- 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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