Nigella Lawson’s Guinness Chocolate Cake
The BEST Guinness chocolate cake recipe you will ever make, all you need it s sauce pot and whisk. It is moist, tender and so rich! With a very simple and rich cream cheese frosting that is prefect for St Patricks Day.
Equipment
- Sauce pot
- Whisk
- Mixing bowl
- Rubber spatula
- 9 inch round cake tin
Ingredients
Cake -
- 250 gm brown butter
- 250 ml Guinness
- 75 gm cocoa powder
- 150 gm white sugar
- 50 gm brown sugar
- 150 gm yogurt
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 250 gm all purpose flour
- 25 gm corn flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
Frosting -
- 300 gm cream cheese
- 90 gm icing sugar
- 90 ml heavy cream
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180℃ and line a 9 inch springform tin with baking paper and baking spray, set aside.
- In a heavy bottom sauce pot add the butter and brown it until nutty and a light brown color is achieved, should take 3-5 minutes deepening on the size of the pot and the heat. I like to do this on a medium heat.
- Remove from the heat, add the Guinness beer and whisk. Add the cocoa powder, sugar and whisk again.
- Add the yogurt, lemon juice and whisk until smooth. Add the eggs, vanilla and whisk again until smooth.
- Add the flour, corn flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and whisk until smooth.
- Pour into the lined tin and bake for 45 - 50 minutes until a tooth pick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and let it cool down completely, in the mean time make the frosting by beating fridge cold cream cheese until smooth, add the icing sugar and whipping cream, beat again and place in the fridge.
- When the cake is cool remove from the tin and finish with the frosting on top. Slice and serve.
Notes
- Allow the cake to cool completely before frosting it.
- Do not over mix the frosting or else it will get loose.
- Recipe adapted from Nigella Lawsons