Chocolate Stout Cake

Name: Chocolate Stout Cake
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 75 g dark chocolate; 100 g butter; 100 g caster sugar; 2 eggs; 20 g cocoa powder; 100 g soft brown sugar; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 200 g plain flour; 200 g icing sugar; 100 g butter, softened; 100 g full-fat cream cheese, at room temperature

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Hebridean Baker

By Coinneach MacLeod

Published 2021

About

A simple cream cheese frosting blends perfectly with this rich, dense, slightly bitter cake to make it look like an irresistibly well-poured pint of black stout.

Ingredients

For the cake

75 g dark chocolate
100 g butter
200

Europe
United Kingdom
Scotland
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F. Grease a 23cm cake tin.

Roughly chop the chocolate and butter and place in a saucepan over a low heat. Remove from the heat when melted and leave aside for 5 minutes before stirring in the stout.

In a bowl, use a hand mixer to beat the e