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Recipe of the month – Chocolate Guinness Cake

posted at 2:38pm, 02 Nov 09 by Siobhan [ 1 comment ]

Bex, former Cafédirect volunteer and friend of the month baked this rich and sticky San Cristobal Chocolate Guinness Cake at our bake-off. If you want to use San Cristobal drinking chocolate in a different way, try it out!

Chocolate Guinness Cake

Ingredients

For the cake

250ml Guinness

250g Unsalted butter

150g San Cristobal Drinking Chocolate

300g caster sugar

1 x 142 ml pot sour cream

2 eggs

1 tblsp vanilla extract

275g plain flour

2 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

The topping

300g Philadelphia cream cheese

150g icing sugar

125ml double cream or whipping cream

Bex with her Chocolate Guinness Cake

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C and grease a 23cm springform tin.

2. Pour the guiness into a saucepan with the butter and heat until the butter melts. Add the San Cristobal and sugar and whisk. Beat the sour cream, vanilla and eggs and then pour into the Guinness and butter mix. Add the flour and bi-carb.

3. Pour the cake batter into the greased tin and bake for 45 minutes to one hour. Leave to cool completely in the tin before tipping out.

4. When the cake is cold, make the icing by whipping the cream cheese, sieving the icing sugar and beating together with cream. It should be spreadable but quite thick and whipped.

5. Ice the cake and enjoy with a coffee like Kilimanjaro, which has citrus touches.

Try this recipe and tell us what you think! If you have your own Cafédirect recipes send them in and we’ll try them out!