Triple Chocolate Guinness Cake with Easy Bailey’s Irish Crème Anglaise
What says, “St. Patrick’s Day” better than Guinness beer…in a cake…drenched with Bailey’s Irish Cream?
Don’t scoff. You know you want to try it.
My goal here was to create a triple chocolate Bundt cake so moist you could eat it without icing or frosting and that’s exactly what this cake is. It’s even better if you warm a piece up before you eat it. Its chock full of dark chocolate chips that get all gooey-melty (my eyes roll up in my head just thinking about it).
You can make this triple chocolate Guinness cake with a lot of beer taste or just a little. It’s up to you to add 1 or 2 cups to the batter. With 1 cup of beer, you can barely taste it. If you know it is in there, and think about it, you get a little malty, dark beer aftertaste, which goes nicely with the chocolate. With 2 cups, you can smell it and taste it–wonderful for beer lovers like me.
If you really want to go over-the-top, drench a piece of cake with Bailey’s Irish Cream Anglaise. I insist you not skip on the Bailey’s because it makes such a big difference. You get that delicious boozy flavor, taking a homemade cake to 5-star-restaurant status.
Crème Anglaise is a fancy French dessert sauce that’s pretty much the same thing as ice cream before its frozen. If you reverse that process with your favorite store-bought vanilla ice cream flavor, voila! You just made Crème Anglaise. It’s as easy as letting ice cream melt and stirring in a few tablespoons of Bailey’s Irish Cream. Everyone will be impressed for your efforts.
I won’t tell if you don’t.
This triple chocolate Guinness cake with easy Bailey’s Irish Crème Anglaise is a really lovely way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, or any day. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Triple Chocolate Guinness Cake with Easy Bailey’s Irish Crème Anglaise
Ingredients
- Vegetable oil spray
- 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 3/4 cup canola oil
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup Dutch-process cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup Guinness beer
- 1 cup buttermilk OR more Guinness beer
- ½ cup semisweet chocolate chips (mini preferred)
- 1 scoop vanilla ice cream (per serving)
- 1 tablespoon Bailey’s Irish Cream (per serving)
Method
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F/180 degrees C.
Spray Bundt pan with vegetable oil spray or use a paper towel to rub the inside of the pan with neutral-tasting oil.
In a heavy saucepan, melt the chocolate on low heat, stirring constantly. Alternatively, you can melt the chocolate in a glass bowl in the microwave. Stir until smooth, and then scrape the chocolate into a medium-sized mixing bowl. Allow to cool slightly so the chocolate is still warm but not hot.
Add the oil and sugar to the melted chocolate and whisk until smooth. Beat in the egg.
In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Sift if necessary to remove any lumps. Add half of the flour mixture to the chocolate mixture, half of the beer and half of the buttermilk. Whisk until smooth. Add the remaining dry and wet ingredients and whisk until smooth. Stir in the chocolate chips.
Pour the batter into the Bundt pan and bake in the lower third of the oven approximately 45 minutes or until a tester comes out with crumbs. Allow to cool for 10 minutes, and the turn out onto a cooling rack.
Allow ice cream to melt at room temperature or warm in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir in Bailey’s Irish Cream. Serve on the side, drizzle on top of cake.
http://loveandduckfat.com/triple-chocolate-guinness-cake-easy-baileys-irish-creme-anglaise/
Recipe adapted from Food & Wine Magazine’s Double Chocolate Bundt Cake (contributed by Kate Neumann)
This is such a beautiful rich looking bundt cake! A perfect way to celebrate St Paddys Days. I don’t drink so I’d have to sub the Guiness with coffee, but I bet it’d still be quite awesome!
Nazneen
Oh WOW – this is some tantelizing photography you got going here for this cake!
Pinned this for later because I want my Dad to make this for me…he’s into making different kinds of pound cakes…his last one was a cardamom flavored one made with apricots, ginger, and Grand Marnier.
Thank you Yona! The cake looked (and tasted) so good, I had to show it off with great photos!
Drooling already! Baking question – I don’t have a bundt pan so can I use a different pan? Seems like a bread loaf pan would make it too dense and a rectangular cake pan would take all the fun out of it. Think two cake rounds would work? I should probably just buy a bundt pan but I have a hard enough time as it is find space in my tiny kitchen for everything I already have!
Vicky, No need to buy a Bundt pan. 2 8″ rounds will work, just cut the cook time to about 25-30 minutes and maybe make a Bailey’s buttercream frosting!
Oh my word does that look delicious! And it’s perfect for St. Patrick’s Day with the Bailey’s
Oh yes! I love Bailey Irish Creme, didn’t think to put it in a cake, I can only imagine how amazing it tastes ’cause it sure looks like it tastes moist and delicious! I like pouring the Creme on top of the cake too!
Yes please! I’ll take and eat the whole thing. The pictures are wonderful and the recipe has me drooling!
Oh my goodness; that cake looks absolutely decadent! I sure love chocolate cake! I need a bite!
I actually don’t like chocolate cake but this really looks good. I’m going to pin this on Pinterest, thanks!
Just the name of the dessert alone caused me to jump up and down in delight! I’m not quite sure if I’m up to the task of making the cake, but I would sure love to try it!
This looks so good but sadly I can’t have it since we are wheat free here. I wonder if I can make some substitutions like almond flour, etc.
Wow, does this look fantastic! I just love chocolate and the Irish Crème Anglaise looks divine. I will be trying this out.
Yum this looks so good. Ill be sharing this with all of my friends.thank you for sharing.
This look absolutely amazing!! I am pinning it! Thanks so much!
Yep i’m in love anything chocolate and i’m so in. this looks amazing.
This is such a tease because I just went on a diet yesterday. I love the fact that the cake calls for Irish Cream because I LOVE Irish Cream!
GoodNESS, that looks good. It just oozes with richness and chocolate!
That looks decadently delicious. It sounds great for entertaining too.
Now that is one yummy goodness – I sooo love to try!
This looks so rich and delicious. I am not a beer drinker but would love to try this out once.
This has my mouthwatering! I am not very patient when it comes to baking, but if I can borrow a bundt pan I’m going to try this!
This cake not only looks delicious but I love the shape of it and how beautiful it looks. I would love to try to make this.
Don’t mind me, I’m just sitting here drooling over that cake. Yum!
This looks so good! It makes me want a strong cup of black coffee and a giant piece of this!
Oh, this looks delish!!! The chocolate itself looks to die for, but adding the cream on top puts it over the roof!
That looks so amazing! I have a strong sweet tooth and I’d love to try this!
That looks delicious! I wish I could eat chocolate more often. My brother would love this…any day! Lol.
This looks amazing. I can’t wait to try this. OH I love your blog name too
Oh my gosh, I want to eat this! It looks and sounds delicious! I know a few people that would also love it. I should try to make it!
This looks totally amazing. F’real. A few years back I made Guiness cupcakes, with a Jameson ganache, and Bailey’s buttercream frosting, it was delicious but incredibly involved. This looks equally delicious but much simpler. AWESOME.
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This cake looks so delicious!! I think you did a great job.
If anyone is scoffing, please give me their slice because they don’t deserve a cake like this.
Love the idea of the baileys irish creme anglaise and the fact that you can make the cake with buttermilk or more Guiness beer hahaha
this looks to die for!! thanks for sharing
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I keep telling hubs about these Guinness cakes I keep seeing and he’s like make it for me already. Hehe, he is def a Guinness guy! This looks AMAZING!
This cake sounds incredible
I want a slice right now! I love how moist it looks and that glaze…oh my! This has been featured as one of my favourites at Sweet and Savoury Sunday! Stop by, grab a button and link up again. Have a great weekend!
Oh my goodness. This looks divine!
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I had chocolate guiness cake for the first time this St. Patrick’s Day. Apparently, I have been MISSING OUT. It was delicious, and I’m not a huge cake person. This looks amazing! Pinning!
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Oh my fabulous!!! This look de-lish!! Thanks for sharing at The Mommy Club Link Party.