Chocolate Guinness Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 cup guinness stout
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, sliced
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 cups superfine sugar
• 3/4 cup plain yogurt or 3/4 cup sour cream
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 cup heavy cream

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 butter a 9-inch springform pan and line bottom with parchment paper.
• 3 pour guinness into a large saucepan, add butter and heat until melted.
• 4 whisk in cocoa powder and sugar.
• 5 in a small bowl, beat sour cream with eggs and vanilla and then pour into brown, buttery, beery mixture and finally whisk in flour and baking soda.
• 6 pour cake batter into greased and line pan and bake for 45 minutes to an hour (check at 45 minutes for doneness, poking a skewer in center).
• 7 leave to cool completely in the pan on a cooling rack, as it is quite a damp cake.
• 8 when cake is cold, gently peel off parchment paper and transfer to a platter or cake stand.
• 9 icing.
• 10 place cream cheese and confectioners' sugar in a mixing bowl, and whip with an electric beater, until smooth (you may also do this with a food processor).
• 11 add cream and beat again until you have a spreadable consistency.
• 12 ice top of cake, starting at middle and fanning out, so that it resembles the frothy top of the famous pint.