Guinness Cakes For St Patrick's Day
Live somewhere with a large population of Irish descent? Chances are pretty good someone you know (or at least the bars around you) will be observing St Patrick's Day this coming weekend. If baking for holidays is your thing, you might want to try Nigella Lawson's recipe for Chocolate Guinness Cake (from her cookbook Feast), as every single blog post I've ever seen about it has raved on about how delicious it is and how it's quite possibly the best chocolate cake ever.
If Nigella's frosting of cream cheese, sugar and cream sounds too sweet for you, Maki Itoh makes an Irish Stout Cake with Whiskey-Sour Icing, having reworked a Gary Rhodes recipe and added the icing. I can't decide which one sounds more delicious so as a non-baker I guess I'll just have to talk someone into baking me both!
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5 Comments:
i wonder if the cake would be good with ben & jerry's 'black & tan' ice cream - it's a cream stout & chocolate mixture.
thefrugalfoodie at 7:50PM on 03/13/07
I haven't had that yet, although I keep seeing it at the deli. Is it any good?
Lia Bulaong at 8:36PM on 03/13/07
Ben&Jerry's Black&Tan Ice Cream!!?!!? That sounds magical FrugalFoodie!
Recipe4Living at 10:59AM on 03/14/07
Recipe4Living, you can check out Black & Tan on the Ben & Jerry's site!
Lia Bulaong at 11:59AM on 03/14/07
Claudia Fleming's Guinness Stout Ginger Cake is also delicious. It's easy to make and keeps well.
Cathy at 4:51PM on 03/14/07