Simple Healthy Treats

Chocolate Guinness Cake

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March 16, 2017
1 Review (5.00 out of 5)
The Best St. Patrick's Day Dessert Ever.The Best St. Patrick's Day Dessert Ever.
Serves 8
Equipment
Cup cake liners
Cup cake tin
8 inch round cake pan
Cook Time
20m

Happy St. Patricks Day everyone! Here is my favorite Irish treat reinvented to be tastier and healthier than ever. Based on Nigella Lawson’s famous cake, but with a tan/mocha cream cheese icing instead of white because… the foam on a Guinness cake should match the foam on a beautiful pint of Guinness Beer.

Ingredients

  • 2 Cups
    Organic Whole Oat Flour
  • 1 and 1/2 Teaspoon
    Baking Soda
  • 1/2 Teaspoon
    Salt
  • 3/4 Cups
    Organic Fair Trade Cocoa Powder*
  • 3/4 Cups
    Real Maple Syrup
  • 1 Cup
    Melted Butter or Coconut Oil
  • 1 Cup
    Grated Zucchini
  • 3
    Eggs from Pasture Raised Chickens
  • 1 Tablespoon
    Pure Vanilla Extract
  • 2
    Packages Organic Cream Cheese
  • 1/4 Cup
    Real Maple Syrup
  • 1/4 Cup
    Guinness Beer

Instructions

  1. Pre heat oven to 350.

    Set oven temp to 350 degrees

  2. Assemble your cake ingredients.

    Guinness Cake Ingredients

  3. Whisk together all your dry ingredients thoroughly.

    2 Cups oat flour
    1 1/2 tsp baking soda
    1/2 tsp salt
    3/4 cup cocoa powder*

    *Always buy fair trade cocoa so you're not supporting child slavery in the production of cocoa.

    Happy St. Patrick's Day Chocolate Guinness Cake

  4. Add your wet ingredients and mix thoroughly, but don't over mix or you'll mix out some of the air bubbles that will make it rise nice and high.

    Wet cake ingredients:

    3/4 Cup maple syrup
    1 Cup melted butter or coconut oil
    1 Cup grated zucchini
    3 Eggs
    1 tsp vanilla

    Maple syrup, grated zucchini, eggs, vanilla, melted coconut oil

  5. Pour a little less than 3/4's of the cake batter into your oiled 8 inch round cake pan and the rest into the five cup cake liners.

    Guinness Cake Batter.

  6. Bake cup cakes about 20 minutes and the cake about 25 to 30 minutes. You can tell a cake is ready because it will start to pull away from the sides of the pan and will be firm to the touch on the top. Let it cool a bit before trying to remove it from the pan which can be a bit tricky. I loosen the side with a sharp knife, then flip it firmly onto a cutting board, banging the bottom of the cake pan to make sure none of the cake sticks. Then flip it again onto a cooling rack so it is right side up.

    St. Patrick's Day Guinness Cake

  7. While the cake cools assemble your icing ingredients.

    2 Packages cream cheese
    1/4 Cup maple syrup
    1/4 Cup Guinness Beer
    1 Tsp. Vanilla

  8. Whip all icing ingredients together with a mixer until smooth and creamy.

    Guinness Cake Icing Ready to Go

  9. Ice your cake and your cupcakes and you're ready to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in style! Dig in or refrigerate until you're ready to eat.

    The Best St. Patrick's Day Dessert Ever.
Nutrition: You can have your cake and eat your vegetables too! This cake is made with organic whole oat flour, a whole cup of grated zucchini, eggs from chickens that roam free in a pasture (loaded with immune boosting ingredients) and real maple syrup. Instead of the typical 2 cups of sugar you get in a traditional cream cheese icing this recipe is sweetened with just 1/4 cup of real maple syrup.

1 review for Chocolate Guinness Cake

  1. M. Vaughn
    5

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    This was a wonderful recipe! My family loves sweet treats, especially chocolate. I was wondering how they would feel about zucchini in their cake, but no one even seemed to notice! Admittedly, we had to make this recipe without the Guinness (haha), because we didn’t have any on hand, but it was still delicious! Thanks for a great edition to our healthy dessert collection!

    • Beth Robeson

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      So glad you liked it! It is one of my favorites. I serve it with our Vegan Irish Stew and a cold Guinness beer!

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