Guinness Chocolate Cake Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting

Our Guinness Chocolate Cakes are rich and baked to be soft and moist, and served with my favorite cream cheese frosting. This is very simple and guaranteed to be loved by everyone.

Every time I go back to Guinness Chocolate Cake, I kick myself for not getting early. The cake batter is very easy to make thanks to the melted butter. Since the butter melts, there is no need for a mixer, just mixing, spoon and bowl.

Buttercream frosting is the same as our popular carrot cake recipes. It is intentionally whipped and creamy so you can spin it on the cake. It’s beautiful, as heavy as some cream cheese frosting. As for Guinness, you will need about half a bottle or jar, so feel free to check out some of our other recipes with Guinness, such as the incredible Guinness Beef Stew, Sausage Guinness Pie or these mini beef Ji Nice pie.

Key Ingredients

• Guinness: You will need half a bottle or a can of Guinness. We added it to the melted butter and cocoa powder, which highlights the richness of chocolate flavor in this cake. If you want a replacement for Guinness, use another Stour beer, coffee, or, if you are in urgent water.
• butter: I love the buttery flavor in this cake. I use unsalted butter, but if you have salty butter, don’t worry. Ask for salt in the recipe with a round 1/4 teaspoon.
• Unsweetened cocoa: I recommend natural, unsweetened cocoa powder as this recipe. Some of my favorite brands are Ghirardelli, Hershey’s or Guertard, if you like it! Note down the tips in our recipe for measuring cocoa. Because it has a very delicate floor, it is easy to pack too much cocoa into a measuring cup, making your cake batter too much cocoa.
• flour: I use all-around flour on this cake, but this recipe should be used with spelling flour or your favorite gluten-free flour mixture to provide a gluten-free cake.
• sugar: I use regular sugar sugar in this cake batter to let the beer and cocoa taste shine. You can try brown sugar, which will add more malt flavor and moisture to the cake.
• Eggs and sour cream: Eggs help to add structure and flavor, while sour cream keeps the cake super tender and moist. Regular yogurt is a good alternative to sour cream. I don’t recommend using eggs instead.
• baking soda: This helps our cake rise evenly in the cake pan.
• Vanilla and salt: I don’t want to make the beer and cocoa taste too much, but a little vanilla and some salt do help make this cake even more delicious.
• Frosting: This cream cheese frosting reminds me of soft cream. It is lightweight, creamy and swop. I highly recommend it, but if you want a stronger, more American-style cream cheese frosting you can pipe it into the cake, see the tips section of our carrot cake recipe.

How to Make Guinness Chocolate Cake

I love simple cake recipes and this Guinness cake beats out! The batter starts with melted butter mixed with Guinness and cocoa powder. The butter and beer are warm so the cocoa powder has a chance to bloom. One of my favorite tips for the rice chocolate flavor of cocoa is to bloom with warm liquids or fat. We do this when making our can of chocolate cakes and these simple chocolate cakes.

Next, fold the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking soda and salt) into the butter mixture and fold the cake batter through eggs, sour cream and vanilla extract. I’ll tell you it’s easy!

Once the cake is completely baked and completely cooled you can scrub it. You will make the cream cheese with powdered sugar and cornstarch powder until fluffy and stir with heavy-duty cream. It brightens, waving and creamy. We also use this frosting for carrot cakes.