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The party was at one of the friend's house. His place was great.
It's BYOB and we ended up finishing all 3 bottles of wine, a bottle of champagne and a medium size bottle of vodka. I was drunk.... Anyway, I wanted some thing chocolate-y and not too big to bring. I found this recipe...
It's perfect. The cake is only one layer so it won't be too big. It's a chocolate cake. I've never tried this recipe before. And it's got Guinness! My favourite..!! I modified the recipe a little bit - especially the amount of sugar in both the cake and the frosting...
Ingredients
6 tablespoons butter
1 cup Guinness Stout
4 oz. (4 cubes) semisweet chocolate
1 1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup sour cream
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup confectioner sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 package cream cheeseDirections
1 cup Guinness Stout
4 oz. (4 cubes) semisweet chocolate
1 1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup sour cream
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup confectioner sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 package cream cheeseDirections
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat 9 inch springform pan with non-stick spary.
- In a sauce pan over medium low heat, melt chocolate and butter in Guinness. Be very gentle when pouring the Stout and when stirring.
- When everything melted, turn off the heat and add sugar.
- Stir until well combined.
- Whisk all purpose flour and baking soda together in a medium bowl.
- Whisk sour cream, eggs and vanilla in a small bowl. Add this to Guinness mixture. Whisk gently until combined. Pour over flour and stir until we get a batter.
- Bake in the prepared pan for 50 minutes. Let the cake cool.
- Prepare the frosting by beating sugar and heavy cream with electric mixer. Add cream cheese. Beat until light and fluffy. Frost...
- Sprinkle shaved chocolate to decorate over the frosting.
People at the party said the cake was great but I think they were being nice. The texture was a little dense and it's not chocolate-y enough. Maybe it's because I used semi sweet chocolate instead of unsweetened. I might use 5oz. of chocolate the next time I bake this. I wonder if I beat the butter and sugar and eggs then add other ingredients - the cake will come out fluffier. I'm going to try it the next time I have a birthday party...
