An alternative Irish Christmas cake - Guinness chocolate cake recipe
Warning: The likelihood of there being leftovers of these cake are nil!
Ingredients:
Warning: The likelihood of there being leftovers of these cake are nil!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup/half a pint (250ml) Guinness
- 1 cup (250g) unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup (75g) cocoa
- 3 1/3 cups (400g) caster sugar
- 2/3 cup (142ml) sour cream
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp real vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cup (275g) plain flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
- 1 1/3 cup (300g) Philadelphia cream cheese
- 1/2 cup (125ml) double or whipping cream
- Method:
Preheat the oven to 350°F/gas mark 4 (180°C), and butter and line a 9 inch (23cm) spring-form tin.
Beat the sour cream with the eggs and vanilla and then pour into the brown, buttery, beery pan and finally whisk in the flour and bicarbonate of soda.
Pour the cake batter into the greased and lined tin and bake for 45 minutes to an hour. Leave to cool completely in the tin on a cooling rack, as it is quite a damp cake.
Add the cream and beat again until it makes a spreadable consistency. Ice the top of the black cake so that it resembles the frothy top of the famous pint.
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