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March 15, 2019 Desserts

Guinness Chocolate Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Icing

This Guinness Chocolate Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Icing should be priority number #1 this St. Patrick’s Day! Priority #2 – deciding if you’ll serve it with a glass of Guinness or Baileys!

Guinness Chocolate Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Icing

I don’t usually get excited about St. Patrick’s Day.  I’m not aware of having any Irish blood, drinking green beer was only a novelty in college, and wearing green so I don’t get pinched by a leprechaun is just weird.

That being said, I did make Corned Beef for the first time last year for work and discovered that I liked it.  This year, I thought I’d continue the ‘try new Irish foods’ trend by whipping up a Guinness flavored chocolate cake.  Turns out, I kinda love a beer-flavored cake.

Guinness Chocolate Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Icing

Chocolate cake isn’t always my first choice for dessert, but adding a nice Irish stout to the recipe cuts that sweetness down and makes one helluva good batter.  The finished product wasn’t so bad either!  Topped off with a cream cheese icing spiked with Bailey’s Irish Cream?  Now we’re talking…

Why make Guinness Chocolate Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Icing?

Guinness Chocolate Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Icing

Because there’s beer in the batter…

Guinness Chocolate Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Icing

And booze in the icing!

Guinness Chocolate Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Icing

Guinness Chocolate Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Icing

Yield:

Green beer is one way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.  The better way is with a slice of Guinness Chocolate Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Icing!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Guinness stout
  • 10 Tbsp. butter
  • 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cup whole-fat Greek yogurt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 Tbsp. vanilla
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • Icing:
  • 1 3/4 cup powdered sugar
  • 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 1/3 cup Baileys Irish Cream

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a 9" springform pan with parchment paper and coat with cooking spray.
  2. In a small sauce pan, combine Guinness and butter.   Cook over medium heat until butter is melted.  Remove from heat and add cocoa and sugar.  Whisk to combine.
  3. In a bowl, combine sour cream, eggs and vanilla.  Mix well.  Add Guinness mixture, stirring to combine, then sift in flour and baking soda.  Whisk until smooth.  
  4. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
  5. Meanwhile, use a stand mixer to beat together icing ingredients until smooth.  
  6. Once completely cool, ice the top of the cake and serve!
© Katie

Need more ways to cook with beer this weekend? Try our spicy beer queso, beer-braised brats, and this spicy mango shandy recipe!

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Katie Harding has been blogging since 2010. What originally started out as a platform to discuss new parenthood, her blogging now focuses on her passion for cooking: creating recipes and sharing tips for entertaining friends and family of all ages. Outside of the kitchen you’ll find her with her family (three boys, one husband, multiple exchange student daughters, and Hank the pup), or gallivanting around the world with her fork in tow.

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Comments

  1. Mary says

    June 2, 2024 at 6:27 pm

    The frosting made way too much but it still was delicious.

    Reply
  2. Jamie Rowe says

    September 19, 2024 at 9:16 am

    ok well the picture shows low fat yogurt, the ingredients show whole fat yougurt and the written instructions say sour cream with no mention of yogurt. This needs some editing.

    Reply
  3. Cori says

    March 9, 2025 at 11:57 am

    This turned out great even while camping!!! I couldn’t find my vanilla and it still was delicous. With our extra frosting, topped our coffee with it the next few days, WOW. Thank you.

    Reply

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