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Chocolate Stout Layer Cake With Chocolate Frosting

By Bruce Aidells

4.6

(89)

Chocolate stout layer cake on a plate.
Chocolate Stout Layer Cake with Chocolate FrostingPatricia Heal

Forget milk—stout is the perfect pairing for this cake. Serve glasses of the same brew you used in the cake batter. Take it up a notch by adding a scoop or two of vanilla ice cream to the beer for a grown-up float.

Ingredient tip:

If you can find it, use a chocolate stout (Brooklyn Brewery and Oregon's Rogue Brewery make it) in the cake batter. The chocolaty flavors in the beer come from dark-roasting the malts. Some brewers even add a little chocolate to the beer as well. If you can’t find chocolate stout, use another stout, such as Guinness. Sierra Nevada Porter and Samuel Adams Honey Porter would also work well in this recipe.

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