guinness chocolate cake with irish cream buttercream
 
 
Ingredients
  • Cake:
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1½ cups cocoa powder (I used Hersheys Special Dark)
  • 2 tbsp espresso powder
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 cups of sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 cup greek yogurt (Chobani plain non-fat yogurt)
  • 3 tsp vanilla
  • 9 oz Guinness beer
  • Buttercream:
  • 4 sticks of butter, at room temp
  • 8 cups powdered sugar
  • ¼ cup plus 2 tbsp Irish Cream (our homemade version, or Bailey's)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F, and grease three 8" cake pans and line them with parchment paper.
  2. In your mixing bowl, cream together vegetable oil and sugar until just combined. Add the eggs, vanilla and yogurt, mixing unti just combined.
  3. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, espresso powder, and salt.
  4. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet, and then add in the beer. Mix on medium-high for 3 minutes.
  5. Divide batter evenly between three cake pans, and bake for about 40 minutes, unil a toothpick can be inserted and comes out clean.
  6. Make the frosting by combining the butter and powdered sugar in your mixing bowl. Beat on medium-high until light and fluffy, and then add in the Irish Cream.
  7. Once cake layers have completely cooled, add frosting between each and top with chocolate shavings if desired. Enjoy!
Recipe by pretty plain janes at https://prettyplainjanes.com/2014/03/05/guinness-chocolate-cake-with-irish-cream-buttercream/