We had a great weekend drinking coffee, chatting, eating chocolate, chatting, watching Julie & Julia (foodie chic flick, perfect!), chatting, more coffee & cake.
Because it was a birthday celebration we needed cake (well to be honest we'd have had cake anyway, its a given when we spend time together). I remembered in my recipe collection that I had a Chocolate Guinness Cake recipe..... there might possible have been some Irish pubs involved in our younger days, and you know how much we like chocolate, so this seemed like the perfect cake to make. It's a Nigella recipe originally, took me a while to realise that part of the reason it has a cream cheese icing is that once iced it looks like a pint of guinness!
Nigella Chocolate Guinness Cake
Ingredients
250ml guinness
250gm butter
75gm cocoa
400gm castor sugar
1x small pottle sour cream
2 eggs
1Tbsp vanilla essence
275gm plain flour
2 1/2tsp baking soda
Icing
300gm cream cheese
150gm icing sugar
125ml cream
Pre-heat oven to 180'C + grease 23cm cake tin.
In a large saucepan, put guinness & butter to melt. Stir (whisk) in cocoa & sugar.
In a separate bowl, beat sour cream, eggs, & vanilla. Then pour into guinness mix.
Whisk in flour & baking soda.
Bake 45-60mings. Cool in tin.
To ice: Whip cream cheese & sifted icing sugar together. Add cream & beat again. Ice cake so it looks like a frothy top of the famous pint!
I'd love to know if you make this recipe and what you think about it :)
