St. Patrick’s Day Dessert
Guinness Stout is the secret ingredient in this intense chocolate cake.
Nothing frames sweetness so perfectly as bitterness. Think dark, toasty, rich and bitter, and you might arrive at chocolate. But this also describes Guinness Stout, the dark, bitter ale served at room temperature throughout the United Kingdom.
Our Guinness Stout Chocolate Layer Cake, elaborate and intense, combines those ingredients for a thrillingly chocolatey, rich and moist dessert. Tiny, sweet-tart currants, another of Ireland’s prized ingredients, also find their way into the cake. And for another flavor boost, currant jelly forms part of the filling. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with this fabulous cake. It will delight chocolate lovers of all nationalities.
—Crescent Dragonwagon
Guinness Stout Chocolate Layer Cake
Guinness stout is so rich in vitamins and minerals it is given to nursing moms in Ireland—or so the rumor goes. The drizzle for this ridiculously delicious deep chocolate cake employs the toastiness and the heady, spicy aromatics of the beverage to very good use.
A very chocolaty icing, for any sheet or layer cake.
