The perfect way to celebrate St Patrick’s Day!
Ingredients
- 500ml Guinness stout – measure and allow to dissipate
- 500g unsalted butter – cubed
- 150g cocoa powder – sieved
- 800g caster sugar
- 284ml buttermilk
- 4 eggs
- 550g plain flour
- 5 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
Icing
- 100g melted white chocolate
- 200g icing sugar
Method
- Preheat oven 180c / gas 4
- Lightly butter a deep, loose bottom cake tin (approx. 23cm)
- In a saucepan pour Guinness. Allow to dissipate
- Add butter. Heat until butter is melted, but be careful not to let it boil
- In a bowl, combine the cocoa and caster sugar and whisk this into the Guinness and butter mix
- Beat the eggs and sour cream together and add into the above saucepan
- In another bowl combine the flour and bicarbonate of soda, and slowly whisk into the pan a little at a time. Whisk enough so no lumps!
- Pour cake batter into tin and bake for 1 hour, 15 minutes (check by poking with a cocktail stick to come out clean)
- Allow cake to cook on cooling rack
- Melt white chocolate in a bowl and add icing sugar
- Put tray under cooling rack (with cake on it) and slowly pour white chocolate icing so that it drips down the cake
- Allow icing to set and serve!
Enjoy!
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