Guinness Stout Cake with Bailey's Cream Cheese Frosting

This cake sounds weird but is the best chocolate cake I've ever had….PERFECT for St Patty's Day – an Irish beer and an Irish liqueur in one dessert

1 cup (2 sticks) butter

1 cup Stout (I actually found a chocolate stout that I used)

3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

2 cups all purpose flour

2 cups sugar

1 1/2 teas baking soda

3/4 teas salt

2 large eggs

2/3 cup sour cream

1.  melt the butter in a sauce pan, remove from heat and let cool a bit

2.  mix in the stout and cocoa powder

3.  mix the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in a large bowl

4.  mix eggs and sour cream in another large bowl

5.  mix the stout mixture into the egg mixture

6.  mix the dry ingredients into the wet

7.  pour batter into one or two greased and parchment lined circular cake pans ( i used a bundt pan well sprayed with nonstick spray)

8.  bake in a preheated 350F oven – if you use a single pan it should be ready in about 40-50 mins.  if you bake it in two pans then it should take 20-30 mins.

Bailey's Cream Cheese Frosting

4 ounces room temperature cream cheese

1 cup confectioners sugar

3 tablespoons Bailey's Irish Cream (a nip is perfect)

mix everything until smooth – frost cooled cake, decorate if desired. 

I sprinkled some green sugar over the top last yr.  Silver Dragees sprinkled over a frosted bundt would look very nice too I think…