GUINNESS CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
- 1 cup Guinness
- 250 g unsalted butter, sliced
- 75 g cocoa powder
- 400 g caster sugar
- 150 ml sour cream
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 275 g plain cake flour
- 2.5 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 300 g cream cheese
- 150 g icing sugar
- ½ cup double cream
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 23 cm spring form tin and set aside.
Pour the Guinness into a large saucepan, add the butter and heat through until melted.
Whisk in the cocoa and sugar, then in a separate bowl beat the sour cream, eggs and vanilla and pour into melted butter and beer mixture.
Then, fold through the flour and bicarbonate of soda.
Pour the cake batter into the greased and lined tin and bake for 45 – 60 minutes.
Once baked, leave to cool completely in the tin on a cooling rack.
To make the frosting, lightly whip cream cheese until smooth, then sieve over the icing sugar and then beat until properly combined.
Pour in the cream and beat again until it makes a spreadable consistency.
Ice the top of the cake so that it resembles the frothy top of the famous pint.
Recipe posted by Rina Kleinhans
Foto: Rene van Oosten/van der Merwe
