food
Guinness Cake
When you can't decide between drinks and dessert, Guiness Cake!
food
Guinness Cake
When you can't decide between drinks and dessert, Guiness Cake!
Supplies
- 75g butter
- 120ml Guinness
- 100g dark brown sugar
- 6 tbsp cocoa
- 80g sour cream
- 2 eggs
- 150g self raising flour
- 150g unsalted butter, softened
- 200g icing sugar
- 75ml irish cream
Steps
- Pre-heat the oven to 180 C
- Butter 2 pint glasses and set aside. Melt the butter in a pan then add the Guinness, sugar, cocoa powder and beat until smooth.
- Mix the eggs and sour cream in a separate bowl until smooth and then whisk in the Guinness mixture. Sieve in the flour and fold in until incorporated.
- Divide the mixture between 2 pint glasses and place in the pre-heated oven for 1 hour, or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.
- To make the icing, whisk the butter until completely softened then add ¾ of the icing sugar and whisk until incorporated. Add the irish cream and the final ¼ of icing sugar, whisking until you have smooth icing.
- Ice the chocolate cakes to look like the head of a pint of guinness and enjoy!