🥄 Guinness Chocolate Cake with Mascarpone Baileys Frosting

Small background story: I had this cake at Melt in Paris and it was a quick coup de coeur. I found a similar recipe online, modified it and added Baileys to the frosting. Feel free to make it alcohol-free if you’d like!

Guinness Chocolate Cake

Ingredients
🌀 1 cup Guinness Stout or Irish dry stout beer
🌀 ½ cup unsalted butter
🌀 ¾ cup cacao powder
🌀 2 cups fine sugar
🌀 ¾ cup sour cream
🌀 2 large eggs + vanilla
🌀 2 cups flour
🌀 2½ tsp baking soda

Preparation
🌀 Heat oven to 175°C. Prepare a 9-inch pan with butter and parchment paper.
🌀 In a saucepan, combine Guinness and butter. Place over medium-low heat until the butter melts, then remove from heat. Add cocoa and superfine sugar, and whisk to blend.
🌀 In another bowl, combine sour cream, eggs, and vanilla; mix well.
🌀 In a third bowl, sift together the flour and baking soda.
🌀 Alternately add the flour mixture and sour cream mixture to the Guinness mixture, whisking until smooth.
🌀 Pour into the prepared pan and bake until risen and firm, 45 minutes to one hour.

Mascarpone Baileys Frosting

Ingredients
🌀 1 cup Mascarpone
🌀 1 cup heavy cream
🌀 1 cup powdered sugar
🌀 ½ Baileys Irish Cream
🌀 vanilla

Preparation
🌀 Add and mix all the ingredients until smooth and spreadable - using a food processor or by hand.

Assembly
🌀 Once chilled, remove cake from pan and place on a platter. Ice top of cake and enjoy!

⭐️ Guinness Chocolate Cake with Mascarpone Baileys Frosting Instagram link ⭐️