chocolate beer cake
(2 RATINGS)
AKA the hubby's delight. One of my go-to favorites. An excellent, rich, chocolate cake with superb flavor. And very easy to make. All good things!
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prep time
15 Min
cook time
40 Min
method
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yield
Depends on how much cake your bellies can hold!
Ingredients
- 1 cup strong, dark, stout beer (guinness extra stout works well)
- 1 cup softened, unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (better quality cocoa is usually worth it)
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 - large or extra large eggs
- 2/3 cup sour cream (the full-of-fat kind, please!)
- 6 tablespoons heavy cream
- 7 ounces semi-sweet chocolate (again, better quality is worthwhile)
- 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoons instant coffee (optional)
How To Make chocolate beer cake
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Step 1The cake part is very easy! Dump the beer, butter, cocoa, flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, eggs and sour cream into a large bowl and mix well!
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Step 2Once thoroughly mixed, pour the batter into a bundt pan (either sprayed with cooking spray, or greased well with shortening).
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Step 3Put into a pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for roughly 35-50 minutes (or until cake bounces back to the touch and a test fork or pick comes out clean).
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Step 4While that cools, you can make the ganache icing. Put the chocolate, cream and coffee in the top of a double-boiler, and melt and stir until smooth. (The coffee is optional, but it adds a lovely flavor which goes quite nicely with the cocoa and stout. Regular or decaf both work fine.) Then drizzle over the cooled cake.
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Step 5Enjoy! (Pairs fabulously with nice vanilla bean ice cream!)
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