Chocolate Stout Cake

🧂 Ingredients

• 12 ounces Chocolate Stout or Guinness beer
• 10 tbsp butter
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 3/4 cup sour cream
• 2 whole Eggs
• 1 tbsp vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 2 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 8 ounce cream cheese

  room temperature
• 4 tbsp butter

  room temperature
• 1 1/3 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp heavy cream

  milk or half and half work too

Instructions

• 1 Add beer and butter to a medium saucepan, cook over low heat until butter melts
  add sugars and whisk until smooth and sugars have dissolved. Remove from heat
  allow to cool.
• 2 With a mixer in another bowl cream together sour cream, eggs, and vanilla. Add
  cooled beer mixture to egg mixture. Mix scraping the sides of the bowl at least
  once, continue to mix for 1 minute.
• 3 Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a measuring cup gradually add dry
  ingredients to the wet, mix until it comes together. Do not over mix.
• 4 Pour batter into prepared cake pan give pan a few drops on the counter to
  release any air bubbles place in preheated oven and bake for 50 minutes. Remove
  and allow to cool on wire rack for 10 minutes, run a knife along the edges of
  the cake pan then place the cooling wrack top down on cake and flip cake out on
  to cooling rack, allowing cake to cool completely before frosting. (If you
  choose to use a spring form pan just release the sides.)
• 5 Frosting: In mixer whip butter and cream cheese together, gradually add sugar
  1/3 cup at a time, drizzle in heavy cream at the end continue to whip until
  frosting is light and fluffy. Place cake on cake plate, scoop out all the
  frosting on to the top of the cake and work around with a knife until frosting
  is even on the top and just falling over the edges of the cake.

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