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[HENthusiastic]

Hiya,

for those who have requested....here is the Guinness cake recipe....

 

For the cake:

250ml Guinness;

250g unsalted butter;

75g Cocoa;

400g caster sugar;

1x142ml pot sour cream;

2 eggs;

1 teaspoon vanilla extract;

275g plain flour;

2 1/2 teaspoons bicarb of soda;

 

For the topping:

300g cream cheese;

150g icing sugar;

125ml double cream.

 

-Preheat oven to gas mark 4/180c;

-butter and line a 23cm tin;

-pour guinness into a large pan and add the butter in slices- heat until melted;

-whisk the cocoa and sugar into the pan;

-beat the sour cream and eggs together with the vanilla and pour into the pan;

-finally whisk in the flour and bicarb;

-bake for about 45mins-1hour;

-leave until completely cool before icing;

 

-lightly whip the cream cheese until smooth, sieve over the icing sugar and beat them both together;

-add the cream and beat again until it makes a spreadable consistency;

-ice the top of the cake and enjoy!!

 

Hens OH. X

[Egluntyne]

Whoop doop! Ta ever so. It was scrumdiddlyumptious!

[Omletina Kyckling]

Oooooh fab! Thanks!

[j00lz_12366]

i made this today!!!!! for daves birthday..!

 

was wonderful....well the cake was but the topping was more like a sauce-v runny..no idea what was wrong with it..but i just put some on each slice..tasted great tho!

 

thanks for introducing me to the joy of cake!!

 

juliet

[laurmurf]

Oh my goodness, K has given up her secret recipe.... for us!

I am delighted and will be making this cake on, appropriately enough, St Patrick's day!

[The Dogmother]

Sounds great, will try it as an alternative to my usual Guinness cake recipe. I usually use Hooky Stout, which is a local brew.

[HENthusiastic]

She is very generous with her recepies I get all territorial over them and like her to keep them secrets so she looks like the best cake maker in the world , but she gives them out willy nilly

[chick wiggle]

Mmmmm sounds lovely, i will be making this as i missed out on it on sunday

Hen, you really must learn to share you know!

Thanks K

[The Dogmother]

I made this yesterday and baked it in 2 x 2lb loaf tins as it was late and I couldn't be bothered to grease and line the big round tin. I haven't iced them yet, but it was easy to make and the mixture tasted nice. I shall freeze one and eat the other straight away.

[Lewis]

I made this yesterday and baked it in 2 x 2lb loaf tins as it was late and I couldn't be bothered to grease and line the big round tin. I haven't iced them yet, but it was easy to make and the mixture tasted nice. I shall freeze one and eat the other straight away.

Very nice it was too!

[The Dogmother]

Thanks Lewis. I kept one cake out and froze the other, neither lasted beyond a couple of days

 

A success and I shall use it as my Guinness cake recipe now - I had been using Lesley's Whacky Cake, but I prefer the texture of this one.

 

BTW, the icing measures make a heck of a lot of icing, so there's enough for the middle and the top of the cake.

[HENthusiastic]

OH is making one for the weekend

[j00lz_12366]

i might feel the need too..! was LOVELY