Guinness Chocolate Cake with Sour Cream Glaze

The US celebrates the “National Beer Day” today – that is enough reason to make something with beer, right?! ;) Here in Germany we actually celebrate the International Day of the Beer – but that is in August. Way too far in the future. I want some nice Guinness Cake with Sour Cream Glaze now!

This is not my first cake made with beer. There is already a delicious Guinness chocolate cake with cream cheese topping on the blog as well as some cookie bars with chocolate, caramel, salt pretzels and of course Guinness again. The second recipe might sound a bit strange, but it’s incredibly delicious. So can you see – there is a lot of sweet stuff you can create with a bottle of beer! If you use dark beer in combination with chocolate in your cake the beer flavor is normally not very strong at the end – the beer kind of has “supporting role” in those cakes and makes the chocolate flavor pop out more… similar to coffee in a chocolate cake. If you ware hoping for a super-strong beer flavor – sorry, but that is not gonna happen… unless you double the amount of beer. But then you probably end up with a soggy cake ;P

You might want to keep your children away from his kind of cake… although in my childhood this wouldn’t have bothered anyone. I have pictures where I am drinking from a beer bottle when I was only two… and still, I did not turn into a person that has problems with alcohol ;P Anyway. Probably still not a cake for children. So give them something else and serve this cake to adults that appreciate the subtle beer flavor in this chocolate cake.

Well… with or without a special beer holiday – a cake made with Guinness simply tastes delicious and is something different than the usual chocolate sugar bombs.

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Guinness Chocolate Cake with Sour Cream Glaze

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• Author: Bake to the roots
• Prep Time: 20m
• Cook Time: 1h
• Total Time: 1h 30m
• Yield: 1 1x
• Category: Cake
• Cuisine: American

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Description

Beer in a cake? Well… yass! Chocolate and Guinness work well together. You should try!

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Ingredients

For the cake:

1/2 cup (120g) butter

1/2 cup (100g) brown sugar

1 large egg

1 1/2 cups (200g) all-purpose flour

1/4 cup (30g) cocoa powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 cup (240ml) Guinness

3.5 oz. (100g) semi-sweet chocolate, chopped

1/2 cup (60g) walnuts, chopped

For the glaze:

1.8 oz. (50g) semi-sweet chocolate, chopped

1.8 oz. (50g) sour cream

1 tbsp. sugar

1 tbsp. hot water

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Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Grease a 9×5 inches (23x12cm) loaf pan and line with a strip of baking parchment. Add the butter and sugar to a large bowl and mix until light and fluffy. Add the egg and mix until well combined. Mix the flour with cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl. Add alternating with the beer in two batches to the bowl and mix until just combined – do not overmix. Add the chopped chocolate and chopped walnuts and fold in. Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 50-60 minutes or until a wooden skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Take the cake out of the oven and let cool down in the pan for 10-15 minutes, then remove from the pan and let cool down completely on a wire rack.

 

2. For the topping chop the chocolate and add together with the sour cream and sugar to a microwave-safe bowl and heat up gently until the chocolate has melted. Stir to combine. Add the hot water and mix in. Decorate the cake with the cream. Let cool/dry before slicing.

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Notes

Enjoy baking!