Chocolate cake made with Guinness beer
This beer cake doesn’t taste like beer but the beer really brings out the flavor of the chocolate. Guinness beer cake is a great cake for that beer lover or if you just want a really intense chocolate flavor in your cake.
I used chocolate ganache to frost my beer cake but you could also use regular buttercream if you don’ want your cake to be as rich.
Guinness beer cake makes a great cake for Saint Patrick’s day!
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Beer Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 17 oz (482 g) AP flour
- 28 oz (794 g) sugar
- 1 tbsp (1 tbsp) baking soda
- 5 oz (142 g) natural cocoa powder like Hershey's brand
- 8 oz (227 g) butter
- 4 large (4 large) eggs beaten
- 16 oz (454 g) Dark Guinness Beer
- 11 oz (312 g) sour cream
- 2 tbsp (2 tbsp) vanilla extract
Instructions
Instructions
- Grease 2 8" round pans and line with parchment paper. Set aside
- In a large saucepan, heat beer and butter until butter is melted. Remove from heat.
- Whisk in sugar and cocoa powder until blended.
- Combine eggs, sour cream and vanilla in a medium bowl. Whisk contents of medium bowl into beer mixture.
- Combine flour and baking soda. Whisk into beer mixture until smooth.
- Pour into prepared pans.
- Bake at 350ºF/175ºC for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes and remove from pan.
