Irish stout cake
https://www.coop.co.uk/recipes/irish-stout-cake
This grown-up, bittersweet bake is made with a rich mixture of stout, chocolate and spices
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Feeds
12
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Ready in
1 hour
30 minutes
Each serving contains
% of adult’s reference intake | Carbohydrates per serving : 50g
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Ingredients
- 275g Co-op unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
- 100g bar Co-op Irresistible Fairtrade 70% dark chocolate, broken into squares
- 250ml Irish stout
- 125g Co-op ready to eat dried prunes
- 225g Co-op Fairtrade brown sugar
- 200g Co-op self raising flour, sieved
- 25g Co-op Fairtrade cocoa powder, sieved
- 4 Co-op British eggs
- 3 tsp ground cinnamon, plus extra for dusting
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 85g icing sugar
- 5 tbsp condensed milk
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/Gas 4
- Grease a 21cm round, loose-bottomed cake tin, then line with greaseproof paper
- Melt the dark chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water, making sure the base doesn’t touch the surface
- When melted, set aside to cool
- Blend the stout and prunes until smooth, then set aside
- Place 225g of the butter and the brown sugar, flour, cocoa, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla essence in a mixing bowl
- Beat until smooth, then stir in the chocolate and the prune and stout mixture
- Spoon the mixture into the cake tin, level the surface and bake for 55-65 mins, or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre
- Turn out onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely
- While the cake is cooling, beat the rest of the butter and the icing sugar together until creamy, then beat in the condensed milk
- Cover and chill the frosting until the cake has cooled
- Spread the frosting over the top of the cake, and serve dusted with the extra cinnamon.
