How To Make Dark Chocolate Guinness Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting — Baking Lessons from The Kitchn

Chocolate Guinness cake isn't your everyday chocolate cake. Nope, this cake is deep in size and flavor, thanks in no small part to the magic of stout beer, dark cocoa, and sour cream. The resulting cake is super moist and fudgy with an almost velvet-like texture that most cocoa cakes can't beat.

Because this is a rather bold chocolate cake, it's topped with sweet and tangy cream cheese frosting. Just pile it on top in big puffy swirls. Then take a step back and gaze at the beauty you just created. It looks like a fine pour of a pint of Guinness, doesn't it? Good. That's the idea.

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