Chocolate Stout Cake

Recently (okay, not so recently), I was recruited to make a friend’s birthday cake.  I didn’t confess at the time, but this was my first ever layer cake.  If I had owned up ahead of time, I’m not sure I would have been trusted with the task, but once I had committed it was too late, and I was forced to learn.

This isn’t any old birthday cake.  This is The Cake that Alice makes Every Year and it’s always amazing and delicious and it’s become a tradition and a birthday staple and I had to make it just perfect.  Ha.  Fortunately I had extra of almost everything…

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May 21, 2012 | Categories: Baking | Tags: beer, cake, chocolate, cupcakes, espresso, ganache, guinness, icing, layer cake, photos, recipes | 5 Comments