Guinness Chocolate Cake
Course: DessertCuisine: IrishDifficulty: Easy8
servings20
minutes45
minutesThis is a really good cake and I have made it a few times. Every time I make it, I always say I am going to color the frosting green then the next time I make it, I forget. I have made it and decorated it with some green sanding sugar. I am not really a Guinness fan but with chocolate it seems to taste the best. This is so easy and one you can whip up last minute. You could even make it for kids, they wouldn’t know the different, just call it Chocolate Leprechaun Cake.
Ingredients
2 lg eggs
2/3 cup Guinness Stout
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 Tablespoon vanilla
1 cup sugar
1 1/4 cups flour
2/3 cup Dutch process chocolate
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup chilled butter, cut into pieces
- Frosting
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 Tablespoons Guinness
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350. Line 9X5 loaf pan with parchment paper cut to fit, allow some to overhang. Lightly coat a loaf pan and parchment with baking spray.
- In a bowl, whisk together eggs, Guinness, vegetable oil, and 1 teaspoon vanilla until smooth.
- Whisk sugar,flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a lg bowl to combine. Add 1 stick cold butter, cut into pieces. Using your hand, with gloves on, rub the butter into the dry ingredients until it looks like moist sand. Add the egg mixture and whisk to combine everything. Scrape batter into pan.
- Bake until tester comes out with a few crumbs about 40-50 minutes. Allow to cool in pan for 8 minutes then using the parchment paper help to gently pull the cake from the pan. Allow to cool fully on a wire rack.
- While the cake cools, make the frosting. Add all the ingredients to a bowl and blend until combined and at the consistency you like. The frosting is only supposed to cover the top.
- Dollop frosting on top and using an off set spatula, make swirls in the frosting.
