By TheGreatGatsby27

Re: chocolate beer cake
09 May 2008 13:00

Hi All!

Hope you can help. I'm planning on making this cake but was wondering if you could use dark strong ale instead of stout? Also what's with the flour on to baking parchment and not a bowl? Is there a specific reason for the mixing to be done in this way or could you just as easily do it in a bowl?

Any help or suggestions would be great!

gats

Replies

By gerry

Re: chocolate beer cake
09 May 2008 14:09

GG, I'm sure any dark ale would do. Also, provided flour is added in stages, alternating with the beer mix, can't see that it matters whether it's on parchment or in a bowl. The cake sounds lovely.

By TheGreatGatsby27

Re: chocolate beer cake
09 May 2008 14:37

Ahh great! I couldn't work out if there was a particular reason for the parchment and could just envision it getting messy! Bowl and stages it is!

the Cake should be great as I'm tweaking it - as I usually do! - I'm using a dark strong malty ale in the mix as well as making a syrup with to drizle the cakes once they come out the oven. I'm also adding morello cherries into the mix and using green and blacks dark cherry chocolate for the icing so it should all work pretty well!

Thanks for that!

gats

By *Bramble

Re: chocolate beer cake
09 May 2008 14:48

That sounds absolutely lovely Gats, do let us know how it turns out? Bramble ;-)

By gerry

Re: chocolate beer cake
09 May 2008 15:02

The morello cherries and G and B's choc sounds great. Is that instead of walnuts?

By TheGreatGatsby27

Re: chocolate beer cake
10 May 2008 06:41

no aswell as! heh heh heh

Gats