Chocolate Guinness Cake

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Recipe is by Nigella Lawson and in her book Feast.

For the cake:

250 ml Guinness
250 g unsalted butter
75 g cocoa
1 x 142 ml pot sour cream
2 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla extract
275 g plain flour
2 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

For the icing:

300 g cream cheese
150 g icing sugar
125 ml double cream

Preheat oven to gas mark 4/180 C and butter and line a 23cm springform cake pan.

Pour the Guinness into a large wide saucepan, add butter and heat until the butter’s melted, at which time you should whisk in the cocoa and sugar. Beat the sour cream with eggs and vanilla and then pour into the saucepan with the Guinness/cocoa and then whisk in the flour and bicarb.

Bake for 45 minutes to an hour.

Let cool before icing (which is just beating the soft cream cheese and icing sugar and cream together until it’s blended).

I have to say that this is the best chocolate cake I’ve ever had (picture is in previous post).

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