Chocolate Guinness cake

  • Preparation time: 20 minutes
  • Cooking time: 55 minutesto 60 minutes
  • Total time: 1 hour 15 minutesto 1 hour 20 minutes 60 minutes20 minutes
  • Serves:10 – 12

    Ingredients

    250ml Guinness
    250g unsalted butter
    100g cocoa powder
    300g caster sugar
    2 medium Waitrose British Blacktail Free Range Eggs
    1 tbsp vanilla essence
    150ml buttermilk
    300g plain flour
    2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

    FOR THE FROSTING
    150g unsalted butter, softened
    150g icing sugar
    ½ tsp vanilla essence
    420g full-fat cream cheese (such as Philadelphia)
     

    Method

    1 Preheat the oven to 170°C, gas mark 3. Line the base and sides of a loose-bottomed, deep, 20cm cake tin.

    2. Pour the Guinness into a medium saucepan with the butter and gently heat until melted. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the cocoa powder and caster sugar.

    3. Mix the eggs, vanilla essence and buttermilk in a bowl, then add this to the mixture in the pan.

    4. Sift the flour and bicarbonate of soda together into a large bowl or into the bowl of a freestanding electric mixer with a paddle attachment. Using a hand-held electric whisk or the mixer set on a low speed, pour in the contents of the pan. Scrape down the sides
    of the bowl and continue to mix thoroughly until all the ingredients are incorporated.

    5. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake for approximately 55-60 minutes or until the sponge bounces back when lightly pressed and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.

    6. Set aside to cool, then remove from the tin onto a wire rack, making sure the cake is cold to the touch before you frost it.

    7. To make the frosting, use the electric whisk or the freestanding mixer with paddle attachment to mix the butter, icing sugar and vanilla together until it is fully combined in a smooth mixture. Add the cream cheese and mix on a low speed, then increase the speed to medium and beat until the frosting is light and fluffy.

    8. Place the cooled cake on a serving dish and spread the top generously with the vanilla cream cheese frosting.

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