Chocolate Stout Cake with Chocolate Stout Sauce

Ingredients:

Cake:
1/4 Cup cocoa powder
1/3 Cup stout
1 Cup flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
1/3 Cup butter, softened
1 Cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/3 Cup buttermilk

Sauce:
1/4 Cup stout
4 Tbsp brown sugar
3 Tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tsp vanilla

Method:

Cake:
1) In a saucepan, combine cocoa powder and stout. Heat until combined and smooth.

2) In a bowl, combine flour, baing powder, baking soda, salt

3) In a second bowl, beat butter until creamy. Add sugar and beat until mixture is pale yellow. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

Next, stir the buttermilk into the stout/cocoa powder mixture. Alternately, add 1/3 of this buttermilk mixture, then 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter mixture in the bowl. Repeat until everything is combined.

Pour this mixture into a greased and floured 9"x9" pan. Bake at 350F for 25-35 minutes. Just like brownies, don't worry about undercooking. It'll still be good.


Sauce:

Mix all sauce ingredients in a saucepan over low heat until they combine and are smooth.


When the cake is done cooking, allow to cool for 10 minutes, remove from pan, and place on a rack, upside down. Poke a bunch of holes in the bottom of the cake, and pour 2/3 of the sauce over the cake. Allow it to soak in for at least a few minutes. Longer is better. Then, turn the cake right side up, and pour the rest of the sauce over the top.

This ends up being a VERY moist cake. But it's so good, you'll be digging in with your hands anyway.

Contributed by: Bryan
Source: http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/stpatricks/chocolate-guinness-cake.htm