Guinness chocolate cake. The dream of a chocolate cake

This chocolate and Guinness cake has been the star at our Three Kings brunch this morning. A chocolate cake with a chocolate flavor that everyone liked.

It is a very easy cake to make and that always comes out perfect. Beer does not give it flavor, I tell you, but it makes the cake wet and fluffy. It also does not have alcohol with which children can take it, since the alcohol is lost in the cooking of the cake.

Ingredients

250 ml of dark beer (Guinness type)
225g unsalted butter
75 g pure unsweetened cocoa powder
300 g flour
325g sugar
2 teaspoons of baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
160 ml yogurt
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice

For glaze:

225 ml cream with at least 35% fat
225 g dark chocolate (chipped or chopped ounces)
60 g butter

Directions

Thoroughly grease a bund cake mold. Preheat the oven to 180 C degrees.

In a saucepan heat the butter and beer. When reading butter is melted, remove from heat and add the cocoa moving with rods until it dissolves completely. Let cool.

In a bowl mix the sugar, flour, baking soda and salt, and set aside.

In a large bowl mix the eggs and yogurt with rods until the mixture is soft and fluffy.

Add the butter and beer mixture slowly with the mixer running on medium speed until mixed.

Add the dry ingredients twice, beating a little each time with the mixer, but finish integrating completely with a spatula or rods by hand until there are no lumps.

Fill the mold and bake to 175 C for 30 minutes, or until a toothpick is inserted in the center, it comes out clean. My oven heats much And 30 minutes were enough but the test of the stick is the one that should guide us because each oven is a world.

Let cool at least 10 minutes in the mold. Then unmold and let cool completely on a rack.

For the glaze we chop the chocolate with a knife. Heat the cream in a saucepan and when it boils pour it over the chopped chocolate. Leave without moving for a couple of minutes, then move until the chocolate is completely melted. Add the butter and stir until it has melted completely.

Decorate the cake by dropping the chocolate on top.

I decorated it with raspberries, currants and strawberries along with sprigs of rosemary to give it a more Christmas touch.

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