• Portions: 14
  • Temperature: 170
  • Cooking Time: 45

Chocolate Guinness Cake for World Baking Day

Need a rich cake recipe? Try this quick cake recipe for chocolate Guinness cake a delicious baked treat today. Stork – love to bake.

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Ingredients

Cake Ingredients

250ml Guinness
250g Stork Baking Margarine
85g cocoa powder
400g sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
140ml buttermilk
280g plain / all-purpose flour
½ tsp baking powder

Icing Ingredients

55g Stork Baking Margarine
300g icing / powdered sugar
125g cream cheese
Cocoa powder, for dusting (optional)

Step by step method

  1. Preheat the oven to 170°C.
  2. Pour the Guinness into a saucepan and add the Stork Bake margarine. Gently heat until melted. Remove from heat and stir in the cocoa and sugar. Mix together the eggs, buttermilk and vanilla and then add to the pan.
  3. Put the flour and the baking powder into a large bowl then whisk in the mix from the pan until smooth.
  4. Pour the cake mix into your prepared tin and bake in the oven for 45 minutes or until cooked. Insert a skewer into the middle of the cake and if it comes out clean, the cake is cooked. Cool in the tin and then place on wire rack until cold.
  5. To make the icing, place the icing ingredients in a bowl and mix until light and fluffy.
  6. Spread the cake with the icing and finish with a light dusting of cocoa powder.