Flourless Guinness Chocolate Cake with Whiskey Whipped Cream
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
  • Guinness Chocolate Cake:
  • 100g dark chocolate, chopped
  • ½ cup butter
  • 1 can Guinness beer, reduced to ~ ⅓ cup
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup ground hazelnuts
  • 3 eggs separated
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  • Whiskey Cream:
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 2 Tbsp whiskey
  • 1 Tbsp icing sugar
Instructions
  1. Bring Guinness to a boil in a small saucepan. Reduce heat to med-low and simmer until it reduces to a syrupy consistency. You should have about a third of a cup of liquid left.
  2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  3. Grease a cake pan with a touch of butter and dust with a spoonful of hazelnuts.
  4. Melt butter and chocolate together in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring frequently to ensure the chocolate does not burn. Stir the Guinness reduction, sugar and egg yolks into the melted chocolate. Stir in the ground hazelnuts.
  5. Whisk egg whites until dry and stiff.
  6. Fold egg whites into the chocolate mixture and pour into the prepared pan and bake for 50 minutes. Cool the cake in the pan, dust with additional icing sugar if you like.
  7. Whisk heavy cream, icing sugar and whiskey together until cream is thick and fluffy. Serve over top cooled cake.
Recipe by Port and Fin at https://portandfin.com/flourless-guinness-chocolate-cake-with-whiskey-whipped-cream/