Chocolate Beer Cake
Recipe adapted from the Butter Baked Goods Cookbook.
Ingredients
For the cake
- 1 cup hot coffee
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup Porter or Stout
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil I used coconut
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 cup buttermilk or soured milk--add 1 tbsp of vinegar to it and let it sit for 5 minutes
- 1 1/2 tsps vanilla
- 2 3/4 cups flour
- 2 tsps baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
For the Brown Butter Stout Icing
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup stout
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
For the cake
- Mix together the coffee and cocoa until they are well combined, and then allow to cool a little.
- In the mean time, in a large bowl, beat together the sugar, eggs, oil and buttermilk. Add in the beer and the vanilla.
- Combine the dry ingredients all together, and slowly beat them into the wet.
- Pour into two round 9" cake pans that have been lined with parchment. Bake at 350 degrees for about 35 minutes.
For the icing
- In a small saucepan, heat the butter until it starts to brown. Remove from heat, and add the brown sugar, mixing well to combine, until the sugar melts into the butter. Allow to cool. Add in the beer.
- In a mixer, place the butter/sugar/beer mixture, and add the cinnamon and vanilla. Add the icing sugar in, 1/2 cup at a time, until the icing becomes your desired consistency.