Category: Recipes,Baking | Post by: Andrea Wong
I love to bake cakes. What I love even more are cakes that are easy to make yet are so d'lish! I have my favourite chocolate cake recipe here but with a slight twist - the addition of chocolate stout.
You could describe this cake as a bit of a bloke's cake. It has beer in it, stout even, so it has to be called a bloke's cake! I discovered this chocolate stout from Marlborough's Renaissance Beer on Twitter and they mentioned that it would be nice in a chocolate cake. Oh yes!
Serve this cake with real chocolate sauce and a scoop of ice cream and you will be loved forever!
Chocolate Stout Cake
Ingredients
175g butter
1 1/4c sugar
3 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tbsp cocoa powder
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup milk
2 tsp baking powder
1 cup stout or other dark beer (I used Renaissance Chocolate Stout)
2 tbsp golden syrup, melted
100g chocolate, chopped or chocolate buttons
Directions
- Heat the oven to 180ºC and grease a tin - 23cm square by 4cm deep and line with baking paper
- Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy
- Add the eggs one at a time, ensuring that you mix well after each addition
- Sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder together and gradually beat it into the mixture
- Stir the baking soda into the milk and add to the mixture. Add the stout and the melted golden syrup and stir well
- Fold in the chocolate
- Spread the mixture into the prepared baking tin bake for 30 minutes.
Serve with
real chocolate sauce.