Danes are a beer drinking nation. They drink more beer than wine and they even made food with beer – desserts too. A good porter is fantastic with a chocolate cake. The cake is made with porter and gives the cake a let bitter taste. Good for people who don’t like their cakes too sweet.
Chocolate Cake with Porter
8 dessert servings
5 oz ./150 g butter
5 oz./150 g chocolate
1 cup/60 grams flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla extract
½ cup/30 grams cacao
3 eggs
½ cup /4 fl. oz. porter or another dark beer
Garnish: 2 cups heavy cream, whipped with 1-2 tbps. confectionery suger
3 oz./90 grams dark chocolate, shaved or cut with a sharp knife
Preheat oven to 350 °F.
To make cake, melt butter and chocolate in a pot. Bland flour, baking powder, vanilla extract and cacao in a bowl, pour butter/chocolate and stir until blended. Come eggs in and stir until blended. Add porter, stir a few times and pour into a buttered baking dish. Bake cake 25 minutes.
To serve, let cake cool completely before placing whipped cream and garnishing med shaved chocolate .
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