Handle the Heat· by Tessa Arias★ 4.9 (103)

Guinness Chocolate Cake with Irish Buttercream

Name: Guinness Chocolate Cake with Irish Buttercream
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 85 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: american
Ingredients: 1 3/4 cups (222 grams) all-purpose flour,; 2 cups (400 grams) granulated sugar; 3/4 cup (64 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder; 2 teaspoons baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon fine sea salt; 3/4 cup (170 grams) sour cream or plain full-fat yogurt, (at room temperature); 1/2 cup fresh vegetable oil; 3 large eggs, (at room temperature); 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 cup Guinness beer; 4 sticks (454 grams) unsalted butter, (at cool room temperature); 6 cups (750 grams) powdered sugar, (sifted); 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons Irish cream, (such as Bailey’s); 4 ounces (113 grams) semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, (finely chopped); 1/2 cup heavy cream; sprinkles or chocolate curls for topping, (optional)

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A moist fudgy chocolate cake made with Guinness beer, topped with thick, creamy Irish cream buttercream. Festive and rich, perfect for St. Patrick's Day celebrations.

Ingredients

12 SERVINGS

For the Guinness Chocolate cake:

222 gall-purpose flour — 1¾ cup
400 ggranulated sugar — 2 cup
64 gunsweetened cocoa powder — ¾ cup
2 tspbaking soda
½ tspbaking powder
1 tspfine sea salt
170 gsour cream — room temperature, ¾ cup, or plain full-fat yogurt
½ cupfresh vegetable oil
3large eggs
1 tspvanilla extract
1 cupGuinness beer

For the Irish Buttercream:

454 gunsalted butter — 4 sticks
750 gpowdered sugar — sifted, 6 cup
⅜ cupIrish cream

For the Chocolate Drip:

113 gsemisweet chocolate — finely chopped, 4 oz, or bittersweet chocolate
½ cupheavy cream
sprinkles — or chocolate curls, optional

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Nutrition uses 12 ordinary servings for this batch; the source listed 10.

Method

1h 25m total

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