Guinness Chocolate Cake Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting

Our Guinness chocolate cake tastes wealthy, bakes to be tender and moist, and is topped with my favourite creamy, swirly cream cheese frosting. It’s tremendous easy and assured to be liked by everybody.

Each time I return to this Guinness chocolate cake, I kick myself for not making it sooner. The cake batter is ridiculously simple to make, due to melted butter. For the reason that butter is melted, there’s no want for a mixer, only a whisk, spoon, and bowls.

The creamy frosting is similar as we use for our widespread carrot cake recipe. It’s deliberately whipped and creamy, so that you’ll swirl it on the cake. It’s attractive and as heavy as some cream cheese frostings will be. As for the Guinness, you’ll want about half a bottle or can, so be happy to check out a few of our different recipes with Guinness, like this unbelievable Guinness beef stew, sausage Guinness pie, or these mini beef Guinness pies.

Key Components

• Guinness: You will want half a bottle or a can of Guinness for this cake. We add it to melted butter and cocoa powder, which bumps up the richness of the chocolate taste on this cake. In the event you’d wish to substitute the Guinness, use one other stour beer, espresso, or, if you’re in a pinch, water.
• Butter: I like the flavour of butter on this cake. I take advantage of unsalted butter, however no worries in case you have salted butter. Cut back the salt known as for within the recipe by a rounded 1/4 teaspoon.
• Unsweetened Cocoa: I like to recommend utilizing pure unsweetened cocoa powder for this recipe. A few of my favourite manufacturers are Ghirardelli, Hershey’s, or Guittard for those who’re feeling fancy! Pay attention to our suggestions within the recipe for measuring cocoa. Since it’s so finely floor, it’s simple to pack an excessive amount of cocoa right into a measuring cup, leaving you with an excessive amount of cocoa within the cake batter.
• Flour:  I take advantage of all-purpose flour for this cake, however this recipe ought to work with spelt flour or your favourite gluten-free flour mix for a gluten-free cake.
• Sugar: I take advantage of plain granulated sugar on this cake batter and let the flavour of the beer and cocoa shine by. You’ll be able to experiment with brown sugar, which is able to add a bit extra malty taste and moisture to the cake.
• Eggs and Bitter Cream: The eggs assist add construction and taste, whereas the bitter cream retains the cake tremendous tender and moist. Plain yogurt is an efficient substitute for bitter cream. I don’t suggest substituting the eggs.
• Baking Soda: This helps our cake rise evenly within the cake pan.
• Vanilla and Salt: I don’t wish to take an excessive amount of away from the flavour of the beer and cocoa, however a little bit vanilla and a few salt actually assist make this cake additional scrumptious.
• Frosting: This cream cheese frosting jogs my memory of softly whipped cream. It’s mild, creamy, and swoopy. I extremely suggest it, however if you would like a firmer, extra American-style cream cheese frosting that you would be able to pipe onto the cake, see the ideas part of our carrot cake recipe.

The right way to Make Guinness Chocolate Cake

I like simple cake recipes, and this Guinness cake hits the mark! The batter begins with melted butter blended with Guinness and cocoa powder. The butter and beer are heat, so the cocoa powder has an opportunity to bloom. Considered one of my favourite methods for bringing out cocoa’s rice chocolate taste is to bloom it in heat liquid or fats. We do that when making our one-bowl brownies and these simple chocolate cupcakes.

Subsequent, you’ll fold your dry elements (flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt) into the butter combination and end the cake batter by folding in eggs, bitter cream, and vanilla extract. I informed you it was simple!

As soon as your cake has baked and cooled utterly, you’ll be able to frost it. You’ll beat cream cheese with powdered sugar and cornstarch till fluffy after which beat in heavy cream. It turns mild, swoopy, and creamy. We additionally use this frosting for our carrot cake.