Stout Cake
Serves 10 Prep Time 20 minutes | Cook Time 1 hour and 15 minutes
Ingredients
Stout Cake
3 cupsAll-purpose flour
2 tsps. Baking soda
½ tsp. Salt
1 tsp.Cinnamon
1 tsp.Ground cloves
½ tsp. Allspice
1 cup Butter
2 cups Brown sugar
2 Eggs
2 cups Stout beer
2 cups Chopped dates
1 cups Chopped nuts (like walnuts or pecans.) Optional
Beer Caramel Icing
½ cup Butter, melted slowly over low heat
1 cup Brown sugar
2 tbsps. Beer
2 tbsps. Milk
½ tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Vanilla extract
2 cups Icing sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grease and flower a 10 inch bundt pan.
- In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and allspice.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and brown sugar.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well in between.
- With mixer on low, add flour mixture alternately with beer, starting and ending with flour, and mix just to combine.
- Fold in dates and nuts (if using).
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for an hour and 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let cake cool in pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- Once cake is completely cooled, prepare frosting.
- Add brown sugar to melted butter in a medium saucepan and heat on low, stirring regularly, until the sugar melts.
- Add beer and milk and bring to a boil, stirring often to make sure it doesn’t burn.
- Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
- Add salt and vanilla.
- Whisk in icing sugar a few tablespoons at a time until you’ve reached the desired consistency (thick but still pour-able).
- Pour icing over cake.
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