The recipe and instructions can be found on Nigella Lawson's website www.nigella.com and the Chocolate Guinness Cake recipe is found here. Its quite simple as there's really only the melting, mixing and pouring to be done. One thing that freaked me out was how liquid the cake mix was once I added the stout, butter, sugar & cocoa mix to the dry ingredients. But somehow during the cooking process and cooling stage after it all comes together wonderfully into a really moist brownie like cake texture.
I would highly recommend using OHara's Irish Stout instead of Guinness.. the flavor is incredible and really adds more of a depth of deep dark chocolate to this lovely moist cake. O'Hara's beers are made in Ireland by the Carlow Brewing Company. Check out their website www.carlowbrewing.com to learn more about this great Irish company and their award winning beers.
The recipe makes a big cake which would feed over 10 people easily. Given the sour cream in the recipe you'd need to make sure the cake is kept cool and eaten within a day or two.
Craftea Tip! If you are ever worried it wont be eaten in time why not just bag up the dry ingredients and give it as a Cake Mix in a Bottle gift with a bottle of O' Hara's Irish Stout and butter!By layering up all the dry ingredients in the jar with a funnel, you can give the gift of this cake without having to bake it yourself!
The liquid ingredients (butter and O' Hara's Irish Stout) can then simply add them to the dry ingredients in the bottle at the gift recipient's leisure.
Don't forget to write the instructions on the bottle or separately on a sheet so they know what to do!
You can even Christmas it up with a Santa sticker and some seasonal material tied onto your jar lid!
Yuummmmmmmmmmmm!