Chocolate Porter Cake

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Ingredients (10 servings):

Chocolate cake:

  • 225g softened butter

  • 1.5 dl cacao powder

  • 4 dl sugar

  • 2 eggs

  • 1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla sugar

  • 1.5 dl sour cream

  • 4.5 dl flour

  • 2 tsp baking powder

  • 1 tsp salt

  • 2 dl stout or porter (I used Carnegie Porter)

Ganache:

  • 100 g dark chocolate

  • 1 dl heavy cream

How to:

Turn you oven to 175 C, then grease a bundt pan and set aside.

In a bowl, whisk together the butter and the cacao powder, then add the sugar until combined. Follow with the eggs, one at a time and then add the vanilla, sour cream, baking powder and salt. 

When it’s all combined, at flour 1 dl flour and mix well then add 0.5 dl stout and repeat until you used up all the ingredients. 

Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes until moist in the middle. (Test with toothpick).Then let it cool completely before inverting it and starting with the ganache.


The ganache:

Put the chocolate chips in a heat “” bowl. Then heat up the heavy cream in a small saucepan and pour it over the chocolate. Let it set for 5 minutes, then gently stir until smooth. Pour the ganache over the cake and let i set for about 10 minutes before cutting the cake.