Chocolate Guinness Cake
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Description
Once you make this cake, every cake that you make after it will be compared to it. It is a chocolaty, moist cake that everyone will drool over. Frost the cake so that it resembles the frothy foam at the top of a draft beer.
Ingredients
1 c. Guinness - dark beer
1/2 c. butter, cubed
2 c. sugar
3/4 c. baking cocoa
2 eggs, beaten
2/3 c. sour cream
3 t. vanilla extract
2 c. all-purpose flour
1-1/2 t. baking soda
Topping:
8 oz. package cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 c. powdered sugar
1/2 c. heavy whipping cream
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 inch springform pan then line the bottom with parchment paper; set aside.
In a small saucepan, heat beer and butter until butter is melted. Remove from the heat; whisk in sugar and cocoa until blended.
Combine eggs, sour cream and vanilla; whisk into beer mixture.
Combine flour and baking soda; whisk into beer mixture until smooth.
Pour batter into the prepared pan.
Bake 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Remove sides of pan.
In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy; add powdered sugar and cream; beat until smooth, but do not overbeat.
Remove cake from the pan; place on a platter.
Combine topping ingredients. Mix.
Frost top of cake so that it resembles a frothy pint of beer. Refrigerate leftovers.
Top with nuts, if desired.
12 servings.