Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Guinness Cake

🥘 Ingredients

• parchment paper
• Guinness 250 ml
• unsalted butter 250 g
• unsweetened cocoa powder 75 g
• caster sugar 400 g
• sour cream 150 ml
• large eggs 2
• vanilla extract 1 tablespoon
• all-purpose flour 275 g
• baking soda 2 ½ teaspoons
• cream cheese 300 g
• confectioners' sugar 150 g
• heavy cream 125 ml

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Butter and line a 9-inch springform pan with parchment paper .
2. 2

   Pour the Guinness into a large wide saucepan , add the unsalted butter (sliced) and heat until the butter has melted.
3. 3

   Whisk in the unsweetened cocoa powder and caster sugar .
4. 4

   In a separate bowl , whisk the sour cream with the large eggs and vanilla extract , then pour into the beer-and-butter mixture.
5. 5

   Whisk in the all-purpose flour and baking soda .
6. 6

   Pour the cake batter into the prepared pan and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour (until a skewer comes out clean).
7. 7

   Leave to cool completely in the pan on a rack , as it is quite a damp cake.
8. 8

   To make the frosting: Lightly whip the cream cheese (room temperature) until smooth, sift over the confectioners' sugar and then whisk them together.
9. 9

   Add the heavy cream and whisk again until it reaches a spreadable consistency.
10. 10

    Remove the cake from the pan and place on a platter . Ice the top of the cake so that it resembles the frothy head on a pint of Guinness.