Photo: David Holifield
Chocolate and ale cake with muscovado malt cream
15 ingredients
30 min + 1 hr
Serves 8
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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.
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
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