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Guinness Chocolate Cake




Source of Recipe


culinarysaint.blogspot.com


Recipe Introduction


Tammie Elms says this is THE BEST chocolate cake ever


Recipe Link: http://culinarysaint.blogspot.com/2008/11/chocolate-guinness-cake.html

List of Ingredients




For the Cake

1.250ml Guinness Beer
2.250g unsalted butter
3.75g cocoa
4.400g caster sugar
5.142ml sour cream
6.275g plain flour
7.2 eggs
8.1 tbsp vanilla extract
9.2.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda

For the Topping

1.300g cream cheese
2.150g icing sugar
3.125ml double or whipping cream

Recipe



Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius and butter and line a 23cm springform tin. pour the Guinness into a large saucepan and add butter in slices and heat until the butter is melted, at which time you should whisk in the cocoa and sugar.

Beat the sour cream with the eggs and vanilla and then pour into the saucepan with that contains the beer and butter mixture. Finally beat in the flour and the bicarb.

Pour the batter mixture into the springform tin and bake for about 45 minutes. When done remove from oven and place on a rack to cool. When totally cooled off, whip together the icing sugar, cream cheese and cream in a bowl. When it reaches a nice thick consistancy, pour the mixture onto the cake and spread it out until it resembles a pint of Guinness.