Cakes
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Dark Chocolate Stout Cake
A magnificently moist layer cake enriched with a full bottle of dark stout, paired with silky chocolate ganache and a punchy coffee buttercream.
in the kitchen
Ingredients
- 330ml dark stout beer
- 250g unsalted butter
- 75g best-quality cocoa powder
- 400g plain flour
- 400g golden caster sugar
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 3 large eggs
- 200ml sour cream
Method
- Heat stout and butter in a large saucepan until butter is melted. Whisk in cocoa and sugar.
- Beat eggs and sour cream in a large bowl. Add the warm stout mixture, then sift in flour and bicarb. Mix until smooth.
- Divide between two 23cm lined cake tins and bake at 180C for 35-40 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
- Cool completely, then sandwich and frost with ganache and coffee buttercream. Dust with cocoa to finish.