Information

Servings: makes 14
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes

Ingredients

250ml (9 fl oz) Guinness beer
250g (9 oz) Stork packet
85g (3 oz) cocoa powder
400g (14 oz) golden caster sugar
280g (10 oz) plain flour, sieved
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
140ml (5 fl oz) buttermilk
½ teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
Icing:
55g (2 oz) Stork packet
300g (10 oz) icing sugar
100g cream cheese
½ teaspoon vanilla essence
Cocoa powder for dusting

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 170 C, 150 C fan, Gas mark 3. Grease and line the base of a 23cm (9 inch) spring form tin OR a deep 20cm (8 inch) tin.
2. Pour the beer into a saucepan and add the butter, 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. Sift together remaining dry ingredients into a large bowl, whisk in liquid ingredients until smooth.
4. Pour cake mix into prepared tin and bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes (or for the deep 20cm tin for 1 hour 10 mins or until cooked). Insert a skewer into the middle of the cake and if it comes out clean, the cake is cooked. Cool in tin and then remove and place on wire rack until cold.
5. 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

Healthy tip - use Light cream cheese

Nutritional Information

Energy - 2031 kJ / 484 kcal (24%*)
Fat - 22.2g (32%*)
Saturates - 8.8g (44%*)
Sugars - 29.6g (33%*)
Salt - 1.2g (20%*)
*% of Reference Intake (RI) of an average adult (8400kJ/2000kcal)

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