In honor of St. Patrick's day, I made a cake with all components of the famous cocktail: Guinness, Irish Cream and Jameson. This cake is absolutely delicious, and despite the alcohol content isn't overwhelming at all.
For my version, I baked a chocolate cake with Guinness in it, topped it with chocolate ganache made with Jameson, and then frosted it with frosting with Irish cream in it.
I made the cake in the simplest way possible, by using a boxed cake mix and substituting the water in the cake with Guinness. You can do this with pretty much any cake mix, but I used Devils Food cake. The chocolate flavor is really brought out with the Guinness and doesnt end up tasting too much like beer.
I baked the cake as directed in the instructions, replacing the water with the beer, and got 2 delicious cakes from it.
After that I made the chocolate ganache with chocolate, heavy cream, butter, and whiskey.
After letting the ganache cool for about a half hour until it thickened up, I cut each of my cakes into two layers, and then spread the ganache on top of each layer and let it set.
In the meantime, I made the frosting from butter, powdered sugar, and Irish cream
I took the frosting, added it onto the ganache on each layer of the cake, and put the cake together. Then I frosted the entire cake with the frosting.
I didnt frost it that well because I added a layer of fondant on top of the buttercream to cover the whole cake and make it look pretty. But you could definitely skip that step and just use the frosting.
Cake:
Ganache:
Frosting:
Assemble the cake:
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