An impressive and very easy to make Guinness chocolate cake paired with brown butter cream cheese icing- perfect for St. Patrick’s Day.
This cake. The product you get when a whole can of Guinness, cocoa powder and a bunch of other stuff are combined. I made this Guinness chocolate cake recipe twice in the past week. I rarely repeat the same recipe, let alone in a short time span, which tells you something. St. Patrick’s Day is coming up, and I wanted to make something in the spirit of the occasion. But using excessive amounts of green food coloring didn’t appeal to me, nor did it have any cultural significance. I wanted to make something somewhat authentic. A chocolate cake with Irish stout seemed like the perfect choice- it brings together a very Irish element and a very chocolatey one.
So I set out to find the perfect cake. At school, I was told that one of my teachers made the best Guinness chocolate cake ever, so I asked her for some tips. Instead of adding the quantity of Guinness required by the recipe, she told me that she had doubled the amount, and that had made for a moister cake. The first time I tried this out, I added more than double the quantity of Guinness – the result yielded a super gooey and soft, cake with a clear stout flavor. But the second time I made it, the Guinness addition was perfect- the cake was slightly dense, very chocolatey, and incredibly moist- very comparable to my best chocolate cake recipe. [2]
You can barely taste the alcohol, it simply adds an unbeatable moisture that makes cutting into the cake enjoyable. Yes, enjoyable. You may substitute coffee in place of the Guinness- but that kind of defeats the purpose of a Guinness chocolate cake.
Paired with the brown butter cream cheese frosting, the cake is flawless. When making brown butter, you have to remember that it is very easy to burn, so it is better to take it off the heat earlier rather than later- I’d give it 5 minutes on medium heat, just until it turns brown. Wait any longer and you’ll end up with a burnt mess.
Make this Guinness chocolate cake recipe for St. Patrick’s Day- or any time, really.
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