Simplest Method to Cook Perfect Chocolate Guinness Cake

Chocolate Guinness Cake.

You can prepare Chocolate Guinness Cake using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Guinness Cake

1. You need 225 g of butter at room temperature.
2. Prepare 100 ml of Guinness.
3. It's 40 g of Cacao powder.
4. You need 200 g of brown sugar.
5. You need 100 ml of milk.
6. Prepare 2 of large eggs.
7. Prepare 175 g of spelt flour.
8. It's 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
9. Prepare 200 g of icing sugar.
10. You need 100 g of cream cheese (use full fat).
11. It's 1 tsp of vanilla bean paste.

Chocolate Guinness Cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 160c. Line a loaf tin with baking paper..
2. Melt 125g of butter in a large saucepan. Remove from the heat and whisk in the Guinness and Cacao powder. When smooth add the sugar, milk and eggs and whisk until smooth..
3. Next add the flour, bicarb of soda and a pinch of salt. Whisk well and pour into the lined loaf tin. Bake for 45 mins, check it's cooked by inserting a skewer and checking it comes out clean..
4. While the cakes baking make the icing. Beat 100g butter until creamy. Add the icing sugar in batches, stirring to incorporate. Once all combined beat at high speed until light and fluffy. Beat in the cream cheese and vanilla paste until fully combined..
5. Once the cake has cooled (alteast an hour) spread the frosting over the top and sprinkle with some cocoa powder or chocolate shavings..