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Guinness Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting, I love cooking cakes
Guinness Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting
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Guinness Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting Although a deep chocolate enriched with Irish stout, this cake isn’t overly rich or stodgy. It has a fine crumb, but it’s very moist and not at all stodgy, and you’ll find yourself ready for another slice sooner rather than later. It’s topped with a slightly tangy cream cheese frosting, which has a hint of Baileys, and it pairs so well with the sponge, both in taste and looks.

PREP IN
20 MIN
COOK IN
80 MIN
SERVE
10-12
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Guinness Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting, I love cooking cakes
Guinness Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting
Chef
Easy
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PREP IN
20 MIN
COOK IN
80 MIN
SERVE
10-12

Introduction

Guinness Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting Although a deep chocolate enriched with Irish stout, this cake isn’t overly rich or stodgy. It has a fine crumb, but it’s very moist and not at all stodgy, and you’ll find yourself ready for another slice sooner rather than later. It’s topped with

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Ingredients

    FOR THE CAKE:
  • 250ml Guinness draught
  • 227g unsalted butter
  • 75g unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
  • 400g caster sugar
  • 160g (150ml) sour cream
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 275g plain flour
  • 2 ½ tsp baking soda
  • FOR THE FROSTING:
  • 75g unsalted butter, softened
  • 165g icing sugar, sifted
  • 360g full fat cream cheese, chilled
  • 1 ½ tbsp Baileys Irish cream liqueur
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract

Method

  • 1. Pre-heat oven to 180°C / 160°C fan / gas 4 and line a 20cm (8inch) round cake tin with parchment paper.
  • 2. Pour the Guinness into a large saucepan with the butter. Over a medium heat, heat until the butter has melted.
  • 3. Remove saucepan from heat then whisk in the cocoa powder and sugar.
  • 4. In a small bowl, whisk together sour cream, eggs and vanilla, add this to the saucepan and mix well.
  • 5. Finally, add the flour and baking soda, stir in with a whisk, scraping down the sides of the saucepan with a spatula if needed.
  • 6. Pour the batter into the prepared baking tin then bake in pre-heated oven for 1 hour 10 minutes – 1 hour 20 minutes. Use a skewer to test if it’s done, insert into the centre of the cake, if there is any wet batter on the skewer, continue baking. A few sticky crumbs are fine, though.
  • 7. Once baked, leave to cool completely in the cake tin on a cooling rack. Once completely cool, turn out from the cake tin.
  • 8. For the frosting, beat together the butter and sugar with about 1 tbsp of the cream cheese until it’s smooth and creamy. Add the chilled cream cheese and whisk until frosting is creamy and thick. Finally, whisk in the Baileys and vanilla.
  • 9. Place the sponge on a serving dish then spread the cream cheese frosting over the top.

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