Old World Guinness Cake Recipes

Steps:

• To make the cake-----------.
• Grease and line two 8-inch cake pans, and preheat the oven to 350F degrees.
• Cream butter and sugar together.
• Gradually beat in the eggs.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda into a separate bowl.
• Stir Guinness into cocoa.
• Carefully fold in alternate quantities of flour and cocoa to butter/sugar mixture.
• Spread mixture into pans and bake for 30-35 minutes.
• Leave to cool in pans for 5 minutes before turning out.
• To make the icing---------.
• Melt chocolate with Guinness, and then beat in butter and leave to cool a little before beating in icing sugar.
• Remove ¼ of icing and stir in chopped walnuts.
• When icing has cooled to a spreadable consistency, sandwich cake with walnut icing and use rest for top and sides.
• Decorate with walnut halves and grated chocolate.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease a 9-in. springform pan and line the bottom with parchment; set aside., In a small saucepan, heat beer and butter until butter is melted. Remove from the heat; whisk in sugar and cocoa until blended. Combine the eggs, sour cream and vanilla; whisk into beer mixture. Combine flour and baking soda; whisk into beer mixture until smooth. Pour batter into prepared pan., Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 45-50 minutes. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Remove cake from the pan and place on a platter or cake stand. , In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Add confectioners' sugar and cream; beat until smooth (do not overbeat). Frost top of cake. Refrigerate leftovers.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375F, and grease 2 8”-9”cake pans.
• Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder into a bowl.
• Add the orange rind to the creamed butter and beat in the eggs, one at a time, including a spoonful of the measured flour mixture with each one, and beating well between additions.
• Gently mix in the Guinness, a tablespoonful at a time, including another spoonful of flour with each addition.
• If there's any flour left over, fold it in gently to mix; blend thoroughly without over-beating.
• Divide the mixture between the tins, smooth down, and put the cakes into the center of the preheated oven.
• Reduce the heat to moderate (350F) and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until the cakes are springy to the touch and shrinking slightly in the pans.
• Turn out and cool on a wire rack.
• While the cakes are baking, make the icing.
• Cream the softened butter and icing sugar together thoroughly, then blend in the grated orange rind and enough juice to make an icing that is soft enough to spread.
• When the cakes are cold, use half the icing to sandwich them together, and spread the rest on top.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Butter a 9-inch springform pan and line bottom with parchment paper.
• Pour Guinness into a large saucepan, add butter and heat until melted.
• Whisk in cocoa powder and sugar.
• In a small bowl, beat sour cream with eggs and vanilla and then pour into brown, buttery, beery mixture and finally whisk in flour and baking soda.
• Pour cake batter into greased and line pan and bake for 45 minutes to an hour (Check at 45 minutes for doneness, poking a skewer in center).
• Leave to cool completely in the pan on a cooling rack, as it is quite a damp cake.
• When cake is cold, gently peel off parchment paper and transfer to a platter or cake stand.
• Icing.
• Place cream cheese and confectioners' sugar in a mixing bowl, and whip with an electric beater, until smooth (You may also do this with a food processor).
• Add cream and beat again until you have a spreadable consistency.
• Ice top of cake, starting at middle and fanning out, so that it resembles the frothy top of the famous pint.

Steps:

• For the cake: heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-inch springform pan and line with parchment paper. In a large saucepan, combine Guinness and butter. Place over medium-low heat until butter melts, then remove from heat. Add cocoa and superfine sugar, and whisk to blend.
• In a small bowl, combine sour cream, eggs and vanilla; mix well. Add to Guinness mixture. Add flour and baking soda, and whisk again until smooth. Pour into buttered pan, and bake until risen and firm, 45 minutes to one hour. Place pan on a wire rack and cool completely in pan.
• For the topping: Using a food processor or by hand, mix confectioners' sugar to break up lumps. Add cream cheese and blend until smooth. Add heavy cream, and mix until smooth and spreadable.
• Remove cake from pan and place on a platter or cake stand. Ice top of cake only, so that it resembles a frothy pint of Guinness.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Butter 8-inch round cake pan. Line with parchment or wax paper. Butter paper.
• Bring stout and butter to a simmer in heavy saucepan over medium heat. Add cocoa; whisk until smooth. Cool slightly.
• Whisk flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in large bowl to blend; set aside.
• Beat egg, yolk and sour cream with electric mixer in another large bowl to blend. Add stout-chocolate mixture to egg mixture, and beat just to combine.
• Add flour mixture and beat 30 seconds on slowest speed. Fold batter using rubber spatula until completely combined; pour into prepared pan.
• Bake about 50 to 55 minutes, or until tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Transfer to rack; cool.
• Once it is cool, prepare syrup (can use my recipe of Guinness syrup). Cut a piece of the cake, put in a glass, add some ice cream and drizzle the warm syrup on top. Enjoy!

Steps:

• Put mixed dried fruit in a bowl with couple of teaspoons of Whiskey (more if you are inclined!) Allow to soak overnight. Fruit will absorb the whiskey.
• Preheat oven to 375 or Gas Mark 5.
• Sieve flour. Combine flour, sugar, butter and spice. Crumble it with your fingers but not as fine as you would for pastry. Add fruit to dry mixture.
• Beat eggs with fork and add them to mixture. When you have mixed add the Guinness/Stout and mix well with a wooden spoon.
• Line 8 and half inch cake tin with greaseproof or parchment paper (use ready liners if available) and put mixture in tin. Put on middle shelf and cook for 2 hours. Enjoy the aroma in the house.
• Enjoy with a cup of tea or glass of Guinness!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream butter and sugar in the mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs. Sift flour and baking powder and gradually fold with allspice into the butter-sugar mixture. Add salt, raisins, peel and walnuts. Mix thoroughly.
• Grease an eight-inch round cake tin and bake for one hour at 325 degrees. Turn down heat to 300 and bake another hour.
• Test cake with skewer. It should come out slightly sticky but almost clean. Remove cake from oven and let it cool. Remove from cake pan and turn upside down. Using skewer, insert holes around bottom of the cake and pour in remaining cup of Guinness.