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.
Originally published in 2011.
4 Comments
-
-
-
-
Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Bocktherobber | Dec 09, 2012, 07:54 PM EST
You could always look it up on one of the websites Bernie copied it from. At least the rest of them who stole Nigella Lawson's recipe gave some credit instead of pretending they invented it themselves.
plynchhayes | Dec 09, 2012, 04:04 PM EST
I echo PattyMM's comments - I don't have utensils that measure grams. thanks!
Sparklet | Dec 09, 2012, 10:58 AM EST
Looks nice, but can't beat crisp white icing on a Christmas cake.
PattyMM | Dec 09, 2012, 08:57 AM EST
This looks really good. Do you possibly have a translation for us in the US who have no idea how much grams and such are?