# Chocolate Guinness Cake

This Guinness chocolate cake is rich, moist, and deeply flavored with the malty bitterness of stout, balanced by a velvety chocolate crumb and topped with a luscious cream cheese frosting.

- Total time: 55 min
- Cuisine: British
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 240 ml Guinness stout
- 140 g salted butter
- 70 g cocoa powder
- 2 Tbsp Black Cocoa Powder
- 300 g Dark Brown Sugar
- 55 g Golden Caster Sugar
- 180 ml sour cream of crème fraiche
- 2 large eggs
- 4 g Flaked Salt
- 2 Tbsp vanilla extract
- 250 g plain flour
- 2.5 tsp baking powder
- 140 g icing sugar
- 300 g Mascapone
- 200 ml double cream
- 1 Tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 Pinch salt

## Instructions

1. Combine Guinness and butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat until butter melts. Remove from heat, add cocoa powder and caster sugar, and whisk until blended.
2. Combine all cake ingredients and bake at 160°C for 55-60 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
3. Let cake cool completely in the pan on a wire rack.
4. Beat together icing sugar, Mascapone, double cream, vanilla extract and a pinch of salt in a stand mixer until thick and creamy.
5. Frost the cooled cake with the cream cheese frosting, making it resemble the head of a Guinness.

## Equipment

- large saucepan
- whisk
- 23cm cake tin
- wire rack
- stand mixer with beater attachment
- spatula

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFxdEVNIDgF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/3daa237a-fd6c-4b38-b9d8-2f5ff2af72f3
- Extracted: 2025-02-09

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