Chocolate beer cake
Ok! So this is a chocolate beer cake. Which means: Moist, chocolatey,dark, divine! Let the ganache pool in the centre and hear the drum-roll wheny ou cut through it.
Ingredients
- 250 ml dark beer
- 250 grams unsalted butter
- 40 grams cocoa powder
- 225 grams granulated sugar
- 65 grams soft light brown sugar
- 230 grams all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 large eggs
- 180 grams semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 200 ml cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 175˚ C fan. Butter a cake tin with a hole in the middle and dust with cocoa powder.
- Melt butter, beer and cocoa in a saucepan. Stir until cocoa dissolves. Remove from heat and set aside to cool slightly.
- In a bowl mix, sugars and flour with baking soda and salt.
- Whisk eggs in cocoa-beer mixture. Add flour-sugar mixture and mix with a spatula until incorporated. Transfer mixture in prepared cake tin. Bake at 175˚ C fan for 35-40 minutes.
- To make the ganache, put chopped chocolate in a heat proof bowl. Heat the cream and pour over the chocolate. Let it stand a few minutes then mix until all chocolate has melted and ganache is smooth. Cool ganache to pouring consistency.
- Pour ganache over cooled cake, letting it pool in the middle.