Quick 1 Egg Chocolate Guinness Cake
You can’t taste the Guinness, but it gives a delicious moistness and as my Irish friend says Guinness contains a lot of iron so is ‘healthy’ for you too. The cake makes for a great talking point and an unusual take on a chocolate cake and the children at the table ate the cake without detecting the bitterness sometimes that comes through when you cook with Guinness. This differs from other chocolate Guinness cakes in that they are quite dense, rich and delicious. Mine is lighter with the yogurt and is more of a crumbly traybake than dense rich cake and still delicious.
Ideas for when to bake the cake:
Watching the Ireland rugby match.
St Patricks Day celebrations.
This can be a great bake for Easter, after you may have abstained from alcohol and chocolate, you can sink mini eggs or Lindt eggs onto each slice.
Father’s day or for a Guinness lover’s birthday, you could cut the cake into the shape of pint glass and frost the top.
A coffee morning bake.
A little square for an afternoon tea selection.
The photo I took on the day that I made this cake was not picture perfect. I should have used a sharp knife to cut the cake not a butter knife but the taste was delicious.
- 125 ml Guinness
- 125 grams unsalted butter, softened
- 75 grams cocoa powder
- 200 grams caster sugar
- 4 tablespoons yogurt
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 125g plain flour
- 11/4 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
- Icing
- 50g butter softened
- 50g cream cheese
- 200g icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Cake
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Line and grease a brownie tin 20x20cm
- Beat all the ingredients together until just combined.
- Bake at 180 for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Icing
- Add all the ingredients into a bowl, beat until light and creamy.
- When the cake has cooled, ice and enjoy.
