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Chocolate Beer Cake
Chocolate beer cake is one of the most memorable recipes you'll ever make! The sweetness of the chocolate and the slight bitter bite of the beer make for a blue ribbon worthy bundt cake that melts in your mouth.
Course
Dessert - Cake
Cuisine
American - Southern
Prep Time
10
minutes
minutes
Cook Time
1
hour
hour
10
minutes
minutes
Total Time
1
hour
hour
20
minutes
minutes
Servings
16
servings
Calories
487
kcal
Author
Marye Audet-White
Equipment
Bundt Pan
Stand mixer
Ingredients
1
cup
butter
room temperature
1
cup
sugar
1
cup
dark brown sugar
2
eggs
1
teaspoon
vanilla
4
ounces
bittersweet chocolate
melted
2
cups
all-purpose flour
1
cup
dark cocoa powder
1-¼
teaspoons
baking soda
½
teaspoon
salt
¾
cup
sour cream
¾
cup
black lager or stout
Ganache
½
cup
heavy cream
4
ounces
bittersweet chocolate
finely chopped
2
tablespoons
black lager or stout
Instructions
Cake
Preheat oven to 325F
Butter and flour a bundt pan. If you use cocoa to flour the pan your cake will not have white streaks.
Beat
butter until fluffy - about 5 minutes.
Slowly add both sugars.
Beat
until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture is light and fluffy.
Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Add vanilla and cooled chocolate.
Beat
on low until evenly mixed.
In a large bowl mix flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
In a large bowl whisk the sour
cream
and the beer until smooth.
Add the flour mixture in three batches, alternating with the sour
cream
mixture.
Spoon into prepared bundt pan.
Bake for 60 to
70 minutes
, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Let cool 10 to 15 minutes.
Loosen with knife and turn out from pan, carefully.
Ganache
Heat the
cream
up until bubbles form around the edges and the
cream
begins to steam.
Remove from heat and stir in the chocolate until smooth
Heat the beer in the microwave until it is just warm. Pour it into the ganache.
Mix until smooth and then spoon over cake.
Notes
Expert Tip
- Guinness works well in this recipe but so do many others. Choose what you like best or have available to you.
If you don't have, or can't find, extra dark cocoa powder you can use the regular cocoa powder. I use Hershey's Special Dark.
This cake does NOT taste like beer! It tastes like the best chocolate cake you ever ate.
There is a scant amount of residual alcohol in it most is baked out or cooked out in the ganache.
IF you prefer not to use beer you can use a good ginger ale or try this
chocolate sheet cake
.
A light sprinkle of Fleur de Sel is an amazing garnish for this!
Nutrition
Calories:
487
kcal
|
Carbohydrates:
65
g
|
Protein:
8
g
|
Fat:
24
g
|
Saturated Fat:
14
g
|
Cholesterol:
67
mg
|
Sodium:
211
mg
|
Potassium:
390
mg
|
Fiber:
6
g
|
Sugar:
31
g
|
Vitamin A:
570
IU
|
Vitamin C:
0.1
mg
|
Calcium:
67
mg
|
Iron:
4.5
mg