Ingredients
- 750ml stout beer
- 700g brown sugar
- 450g plain flour
- 450g Stork Block
- 200g cocoa powder
- 100g Novibloc Milk chocolate
- 8 Le Naturelle Eggs
- 1tbsp Bicarbonate of soda
- 1½tsp Baking powder
- 750g Icing sugar
- 250g Stork butter
- 100g Novibloc Dark Chocolate
- 100ml full-fat milk
- 200g caster sugar
- 100g Stork butter
- 80ml Elmlea Single Cream
Directions
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- With an electric mixer, beat 450g Stork and sugar until thick and light coloured.
- Add eggs (one at a time), continuing to beat with the electric beater.
- In another bowl whisk the stout and cocoa.
- In a third bowl, sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder.
- Beat in the flour and stout mixture, one quarter at a time each.
- When thoroughly mixed, divide the batter by 4 and cook each batter in a separate
tin (or wait and cook one at a time). - Cook for 30 minutes.
- Cool for 10 minutes.
- To make the butter scotch sauce, cook the sugar on medium heat until caramelised.
- Add 100g Stork and stir. Set to cool.
- Add the cream and stir.
- To make the buttercream, melt the chocolate using the bain marie method.
- In a small bowl, beat 250g Stork until thick and lightly coloured. Add the icing sugar and milk. Continue to beat. Add the melted chocolate.
- Layer the cakes with buttercream between each layer. Gently pour the butterscotch
sauce over the stout cake and decorate as desired.
Original recipe by OMGFoodMalta.