If you’re like me the the traditional fruit cake, layered in marzipan and thick, hard white icing is about as appetizing as cold noodle soup. So here’s a perfect alternative that all the family will love.
It’s chocolaty, it includes Guinness and you can decorate the top of the cake with the kids as normal. The perfect solution!
Warning the likelihood of there being leftovers of these cake are nil.
Here’s the recipe:
Ingredients:
250ml Guinness
250g unsalted butter
75g cocoa
400g caster sugar
1 x 142ml pot sour cream
2 eggs
1 tablespoon real vanilla extract
275g plain flour
2 1/2teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
300g Philadelphia cream cheese
Method:
125ml double or whipping cream
Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180°C, and butter and line a 23cmspring-form tin.
Pour the Guinness into a large wide saucepan, add the butter – in spoons or slices – and heat until the butter’s melted, at which time you should whisk in the cocoa and sugar.
Beat the sour cream with the eggs and vanilla and then pour into the brown, buttery, beery pan and finally whisk in the flour and bicarb.
Pour the cake batter into the greased and lined tin and bake for 45 minutes to an hour. Leave to cool completely in the tin on a cooling rack, as it is quite a damp cake.
When the cake’s cold, sit it on a flat platter or cake stand and get on with the icing. Lightly whip the cream cheese until smooth, sieve over the icing sugar and then beat them both together. Or do this in a processor, putting the unsieved icing sugar in first and blitz to remove lumps before adding the cheese.
Add the cream and beat again until it makes a spreadable consistency. Ice the top of the black cake so that it resembles the frothy top of the famous pint.
Source: www.florencefinds.com.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.shaz1975 | Dec 17, 2011, 06:52 AM EST
WOW!! just read this recipe it sounds fantastic, will try this one for sure.
rocksmart | Dec 12, 2011, 10:58 PM EST
I love this recipe. I have gathered the ingredients, now I have to figure out how to convert it to American measures!
queenmac1 | Dec 11, 2011, 10:13 AM EST
Is 75 gms about three ounces? 2 tbsp = 1 ounce, so 6 tbsps?
irishbob | Dec 10, 2011, 02:48 PM EST
Do you really need to have the measurements translated? All you need to know is that it includes Guinness. Bake it and see how it tastes. If you don't like it, toss it out, order a pizza, and drink the rest of the Guinness. If you don't any more Guinness, have the pizza guy stop on the way and pick up some. Does life get any better?
ellenfromcork | Dec 10, 2011, 12:56 PM EST
@CitizenWhy-- It's not a fruit cake, there's no fruit in it. It's an alternative to fruit cake.
propsmith | Dec 10, 2011, 12:30 PM EST
Sounds delicious! Would anyone be so kind to provide the American translation?
CitizenWhy | Dec 10, 2011, 10:40 AM EST
I've never seen or heard of a good fruit cake with thick white icing on the top. Good fruit cakes are moist and soft and liven up a good cuppa tea or coffee.
ellenfromcork | Dec 09, 2011, 06:52 PM EST
Please, please can we have those measurements in American amounts? I wouldn't know what 75g of cocoa was if it bit me on the arse.