Guinness Chocolate Cake
Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Instead of crying and crawling back into bed and waiting for May to come around, you should bake this cake and then crawl back into bed. With St. Patrick's day around the corner, there's no better time to make a guinness chocolate cake.
Guinness Chocolate Cake
1 c. (2 sticks) unsalted butter
1 c. Guinness
3/4 c. cocoa powder + 2 tbsp for greasing pan
2 + 1/4 c. all purpose flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 + 2/3 c. sugar
2 eggs
2/3 c. sour cream
2 tbsp vanilla
1 c. Guinness
3/4 c. cocoa powder + 2 tbsp for greasing pan
2 + 1/4 c. all purpose flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 + 2/3 c. sugar
2 eggs
2/3 c. sour cream
2 tbsp vanilla
Frosting
1 1/3 c. cream cheese
1 1/2 c. icing sugar
2/3 c. cream
1 1/2 c. icing sugar
2/3 c. cream
Preheat oven to 350F, line the bottom of a greased 10-inch cake pan with parchment paper. Grease the parchment paper, and then dump your reserved 2 tbsp of cocoa into the pan and shake it around until the pan (bottom + sides) is nicely coated. Knock out any excess.
Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat, and then add the Guinness and cocoa powder. Let it cool to room temperature. In a mixing bowl whisk flour, sugar, and baking soda. Add in your Guinness mixture and combine until all the flour has disappeared. Add vanilla, sour cream, and eggs, mix until thoroughly combined.
Pour batter into greased pan. Gently tap the pan on the counter to get out any air bubbles, and then pop into the oven for an hour. After an hour, run your knife through the centre of the cake and it comes out clean, it's ready to go. If there are still crumbs on the knife, pop the cake back into the oven checking every five – seven minutes. Let the cake sit for about 20 minutes, and then take it out of the cake pan, and place on a wire rack to cool to completion.
Icing
Beat cream cheese until smooth with no lumps in a stand mixer (or use a hand mixer). Add in icing sugar, and beat until combined. In another bowl, whisk whipped cream until hard peaks form. Fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture to combine.
Place cake on a stand, frost the top with icing, and then eat!
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