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recipe image Chocolate Guinness Cake

Chocolate Guinness Cake

Prep time
30 minutes
Cooking time
45 minutes
Servings
14
Difficulty
Medium

Ingredients

For the Cake

250ml (9fl oz) Guinness
250 grams Stork
85g (3oz) cocoa powder
400g (14oz) caster sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
140ml (5fl oz) buttermilk
280g (10oz) plain flour
½ tsp baking powder

For the Icing

55 grams Stork baking block
300g (10oz) icing sugar
125g (4½oz) cream cheese
Cocoa powder, for dusting (optional)

Instructions

how_make

Preheat the oven to 170 C, 150 C fan, Gas mark 3. Grease and line the base of a 23cm (9 inch) spring form tin .
Pour the Guinness into a saucepan and add the Stork, gently heat until melted. Remove from heat and stir in the cocoa and sugar. Mix together the eggs, buttermilk and vanilla and then add to the pan.
Sift together remaining dry ingredients into a large bowl, whisk in liquid ingredients until smooth.
Pour cake mix into prepared tin and bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes or until cooked. Insert a skewer into the middle of the cake and if it comes out clean, the cake is cooked. Cool in tin and then place on wire rack until cold.
Place the icing ingredients in a bowl and mix until light and fluffy.
Spread the cake with the icing and finish with a light dusting of cocoa powder.

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