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elleng

(139,034 posts) Thu Mar 13, 2025, 10:11 PM Mar 13

For the Best St. Patrick's Day, You Can Drink Your Guinness and Eat It Too (As Cake!)

This Guinness-chocolate sheet cake is moist and rich, with delightfully bittersweet and malty undertones.MIGHT
((Sounds interesting! My daughter MAKE irt, but as a nursery school teacher, she 'may' be too busy!))

Why It Works
Incorporating Guinness Extra Stout Beer into both the cake batter and the syrup produces a bittersweet and deeply flavored dessert.
Brushing the cake with a Guinness syrup keeps the cake moist and amplifies the stout flavor in the dessert.
Malted milk powder brings savory depth to the vanilla frosting.

https://www.seriouseats.com/guinness-chocolate-sheet-cake-recipe-11692522?

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For the Best St. Patrick's Day, You Can Drink Your Guinness and Eat It Too (As Cake!) (Original Post) elleng Mar 13 OP

I'd much rather eat stout than drink it. House of Roberts Mar 13 #1

Don't think I've had it, but daughter married an Irish-type! so they visited Ireland a few times, elleng Mar 14 #2

Not a beer drinker, but... buzzycrumbhunger Mar 14 #3

I recall shandy, when living in Nottingham during college, first time 'near' beer, and almost last time! elleng Mar 14 #4

House of Roberts

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1. I'd much rather eat stout than drink it.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 11:51 PM

Mar 13

I always thought Guinness Stout WAS a syrup. The only way to drink it was to dilute it with a quality ale. Whitbread used to be my favorite for that purpose.

elleng

(139,034 posts)

2. Don't think I've had it, but daughter married an Irish-type! so they visited Ireland a few times,

Reply to House of Roberts (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 14, 2025, 12:15 AM

Mar 14

and made me a grandson there!!! They're going to Ocean City MD tomorrow, for their usual St Pat's celebration.

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,053 posts)

3. Not a beer drinker, but...

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Fri Mar 14, 2025, 08:53 PM

Mar 14

I can do a summer shandy or a chewy stout—not much in between those.

And man, the best thing for St. Paddy’s is Irish stew—with a bottle of Guinness extra stout in it. YUM!

Of course, with that mindset I’m having a little trouble imagining it in chocolate cake as well… Might be worth a try.

https://itdoesnttastelikechicken.com/vegan-irish-stew/

elleng

(139,034 posts)

4. I recall shandy, when living in Nottingham during college, first time 'near' beer, and almost last time!

Reply to buzzycrumbhunger (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 14, 2025, 09:25 PM

Mar 14

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