Guinness Chocolate Cake
- Serves 12
- Estimated Time: 02:20:00
- Easy
- Baking
- United Kingdom
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1
Butter/grease and line a 23cm / 9 inch springform tin with baking paper
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2
Preheat the oven to 180°C / 160°C fan / gas mark 4 / 356°F
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3
Pour the Guinness into a large saucepan and add the butter, cut into cubes or slices, to help it melt
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4
Put the saucepan on medium heat until butter melts, then remove from heat
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5
Whisk in the cocoa and sugar
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6
In a small bowl, pout in the sour cream, eggs and vanilla and beat/mix with the whisk
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7
Add to Guinness mixture the mix in
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8
Sieve in the flour and bicarbonate of soda into the mixture, whisking again until smooth
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9
Pour into lined tin, and bake until risen and firm. This took 55 minutes for us, but the guide is to check after 45
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10
Once risen and firm, leave in the tin on a wire rack to cool completely
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11
Lightly whip the cream cheese until smooth
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12
Sieve over the icing sugar and cornflour and then mix/beat to combine
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13
Add the double cream and whisk until you have a spreadable consistency. A hand whisk will do this in seconds, or a couple of minutes by hand
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14
Ice the top of the black cake so that it resembles the frothy top of a pint of Guinness
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