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Chocolate and ale cake with muscovado malt cream
Photo: David Holifield

Chocolate and ale cake with muscovado malt cream

15 ingredients 30 min + 1 hr Serves 8 openrecipes

This is a really simple but still impressive cake, with dark ale to keep it moist and add extra flavour – a great make ahead dessert.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

890
Calories
21g
Protein
32g
Fat
126g
Carbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Chocolate 1 oz (28g) semisweet 155
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Malt not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 200ml/7fl oz dark ale
  • 50g/1¾oz cocoa powder
  • 110g/4oz butter
  • 275g/9¾oz soft dark brown sugar
  • 2 large free-range eggs
  • 175g/6oz plain flour
  • ¼ tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 220g/8oz good-quality dark chocolate
  • 220g/8oz icing sugar
  • 100g/3½oz soft butter
  • 250ml/9fl oz double cream
  • 50g/1¾oz muscovado sugar
  • 50g/1¾oz malt extract
  • pinch salt

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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