Our Guinness chocolate cake tastes wealthy, bakes to be tender and moist, and is topped with my favourite creamy, swirly cream cheese frosting. It’s tremendous easy and assured to be cherished by everybody.
Each time I return to this Guinness chocolate cake, I kick myself for not making it sooner. The cake batter is ridiculously straightforward to make, due to melted butter. For the reason that butter is melted, there’s no want for a mixer, only a whisk, spoon, and bowls.
The creamy frosting is similar as we use for our standard carrot cake recipe. It’s deliberately whipped and creamy, so that you’ll swirl it on the cake. It’s attractive and as heavy as some cream cheese frostings will be. As for the Guinness, you’ll want about half a bottle or can, so be at liberty to check out a few of our different recipes with Guinness, like this unimaginable Guinness beef stew, sausage Guinness pie, or these mini beef Guinness pies.
Key Substances
- Guinness: You have to half a bottle or a can of Guinness for this cake. We add it to melted butter and cocoa powder, which bumps up the richness of the chocolate taste on this cake. When you’d prefer to substitute the Guinness, use one other stour beer, espresso, or, if you’re in a pinch, water.
- Butter: I like the flavour of butter on this cake. I take advantage of unsalted butter, however no worries in case you have salted butter. Cut back the salt known as for within the recipe by a rounded 1/4 teaspoon.
- Unsweetened Cocoa: I like to recommend utilizing pure unsweetened cocoa powder for this recipe. A few of my favourite manufacturers are Ghirardelli, Hershey’s, or Guittard if you happen to’re feeling fancy! Pay attention to our suggestions within the recipe for measuring cocoa. Since it’s so finely floor, it’s straightforward to pack an excessive amount of cocoa right into a measuring cup, leaving you with an excessive amount of cocoa within the cake batter.
- Flour: I take advantage of all-purpose flour for this cake, however this recipe ought to work with spelt flour or your favourite gluten-free flour mix for a gluten-free cake.
- Sugar: I take advantage of plain granulated sugar on this cake batter and let the flavour of the beer and cocoa shine by means of. You possibly can experiment with brown sugar, which is able to add a bit extra malty taste and moisture to the cake.
- Eggs and Bitter Cream: The eggs assist add construction and taste, whereas the bitter cream retains the cake tremendous tender and moist. Plain yogurt is an efficient substitute for bitter cream. I don’t suggest substituting the eggs.
- Baking Soda: This helps our cake rise evenly within the cake pan.
- Vanilla and Salt: I don’t need to take an excessive amount of away from the flavour of the beer and cocoa, however a bit vanilla and a few salt actually assist make this cake additional scrumptious.
- Frosting: This cream cheese frosting jogs my memory of softly whipped cream. It’s gentle, creamy, and swoopy. I extremely suggest it, however if you’d like a firmer, extra American-style cream cheese frosting that you could pipe onto the cake, see the ideas part of our carrot cake recipe.
Learn how to Make Guinness Chocolate Cake
I like straightforward cake recipes, and this Guinness cake hits the mark! The batter begins with melted butter blended with Guinness and cocoa powder. The butter and beer are heat, so the cocoa powder has an opportunity to bloom. Certainly one of my favourite tips for bringing out cocoa’s rice chocolate taste is to bloom it in heat liquid or fats. We do that when making our one-bowl brownies and these straightforward chocolate cupcakes.
Subsequent, you’ll fold your dry elements (flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt) into the butter combination and end the cake batter by folding in eggs, bitter cream, and vanilla extract. I advised you it was straightforward!
As soon as your cake has baked and cooled fully, you may frost it. You’ll beat cream cheese with powdered sugar and cornstarch till fluffy after which beat in heavy cream. It turns gentle, swoopy, and creamy. We additionally use this frosting for our carrot cake.
Guinness Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
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You’ll use about half a bottle of Guinness stout for this straightforward Guinness cake. It does an incredible job of bringing out the wealthy chocolate flavors of this cake and helps, alongside bitter cream, to maintain it tender and moist. The frosting is deliberately gentle and creamy and does finest if you swirl it onto the highest of the cake with a spoon or spatula (it’s too comfortable to pipe on).
Makes one (9-inch) cake, 9 to 12 servings
You Will Want
Guinness Cake
3/4 cup (180ml or 6oz) Guinness stout beer
3/4 cup (170g) unsalted butter, plus extra for the pan
1/2 cup (40g) unsweetened cocoa powder, spooned and leveled
1 ½ cups (195g) all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
1 ½ cups (300g) granulated sugar
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon nice sea salt
2 giant eggs
1/2 cup (113g or 4oz) bitter cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream Cheese Frosting
8 ounces (225g) cream cheese, at room temperature
1 ¼ cups (140g) powdered sugar
2 teaspoons cornstarch, elective
1/3 cup (80ml) chilly heavy cream, not plain whipping cream, see suggestions
Instructions
- Make Cake
1Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Grease the underside and sides of a 9-inch spherical or sq. baking pan with butter.
2Soften 3/4 cup butter in a saucepan over medium warmth, then add 3/4 cup Guinness and heat by means of. Take away from warmth, after which whisk in 1/2 cup cocoa powder till fully easy. Cool for 1 minute.
3Whisk 1 ½ cups flour, 1 ½ cups sugar, 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a big mixing bowl.
4In one other bowl, whisk 2 eggs, 1/2 cup bitter cream, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla till nicely blended.
5Pour cocoa and stout combination into the dry elements, then fold them into the flour with a spatula. Add the egg and bitter cream combination and fold all the pieces collectively till included.
6Pour the batter into the ready pan, then bake for about 40 minutes. It’s prepared to return out of the oven when you may insert a toothpick into the center, and it comes out clear, or if you faucet the highest of the cake, it bounces again.
7Switch the cake nonetheless within the pan to a cooling rack and funky for 10 minutes. Then, flip the cake out of the pan onto a cooling rack and funky it fully earlier than frosting.
- Frost Cake
1In a big bowl, beat 8 ounces of cream cheese with a handheld mixer at medium pace till easy and creamy, for about 1 minute.
2Beat in 1 ¼ cups powdered sugar and elective 2 teaspoons cornstarch. I like sifting the powdered sugar and cornstarch over the cream cheese to take away lumps. When you wouldn’t have a nice mesh sieve, beat within the cornstarch and powdered sugar a 1/4 cup at a time till mixed.
3Pour in 1/3 cup chilly heavy cream. Beat at medium pace for two to three minutes or till the frosting is whipped and creamy. This frosting resembles the feel of whipped cream. Chill lined till able to frost the cake.
4When the cake is totally cool, frost the highest, swirling the creamy frosting to make it look fairly. Serve!
Adam and Joanne’s Ideas
- Storing: Frosted Guinness cake lasts as much as 1 week within the fridge. I hold it lined with plastic wrap or use a cake keeper or giant bowl turned the other way up to cowl the cake. I don’t suggest freezing the frosted cake (the frosting doesn’t thaw nicely). You possibly can refrigerate the unfrosted cake for five days or freeze it for as much as 3 months. Thaw in a single day within the fridge earlier than including your frosting.
- Measuring the cocoa powder and flour: Weigh it or use the “spoon and stage” methodology. Fluff the flour, spoon it into the measuring cup, then stage off the highest with a flat edge.
- Heavy cream (US bakers): Heavy cream has extra milk fats (about 36%), whereas whipping cream has much less (round 30%). Use “heavy cream” or “heavy whipping cream.” Plain “whipping cream” doesn’t whip as nicely and may trigger your frosting to be too comfortable. When you solely have whipping cream or cream with lower than 35% fats content material: When you solely have whipping cream or are not sure what you could have in your kitchen, whisk it in a separate bowl till comfortable peaks. Add a few spoonfuls of the whipped cream to the crushed cream cheese combination and mix to loosen. Then, fold within the remaining whipped cream.
- UK & Australia bakers: Use plain flour for the batter and “double cream” or “thickened cream” with at the very least 35% fats content material for the creamy frosting.
- This recipe was impressed by two unbelievable Stout desserts, one from Nigella Lawson’s guide, Feast, and the opposite printed in Bon Appétit Journal, September 2002.
Vitamin Per Serving
Serving Dimension
1 slice (assumed 12)
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Energy
427
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Complete Fats
22g
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Saturated Fats
13.1g
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Ldl cholesterol
87.7mg
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Sodium
336.7mg
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Carbohydrate
54.3g
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Dietary Fiber
1.5g
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Complete Sugars
38.2g
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Protein
5.4g
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