How To make Porter Cake

ELFCO TV 19: Baking with Aimee & Abby The Porter Cake

Building from our visit to Founder's Brewery last month, tune in as Aimee & Abby demonstrate how to make a deliciously decadent cake using a dark porter stout. This episode features an on-screen step-by-step recipe with instructions included. So roll up your sleeves and try this at home!

Recipes:

Double Chocolate Founders Bundt Cake

Recipe from Fat Girl Trapped in a Skinny Body

Chocolate Founders Bundt Cake

2 cups flour
2 cups Founders (or any stout beer)
2 tsp baking soda
1 cup cocoa powder
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract

Chocolate Guinness Frosting

2 oz. bittersweet chocolate, melted
1/2 cup margarine (or butter if you don稚 have dairy concerns)
1/2 cup Founders
1/2 cup cocoa powder
2 cups powdered sugar
1-3 tbsp almond milk (or soy milk or normal milk if there痴 no dairy concern)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Generously grease a 12-cup bundt pan.
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, cocoa powder, salt and sugars. Whisk to ensure
even mixing.
Make a well in the center and pour in the beer, oil and vanilla. Whisk from the center, moving
outwards until there are no lumps. Pour into prepared bundt pan.
Bake for 50-60 minutes, until a tester inserted comes out clean. Cool in the pan for about 15
minutes, the invert onto a wire rack.
Prepare the frosting while the cake is cooling.
In a food processor add all of the ingredients except the milk and mix until smooth. Add milk 1
tbsp at a time if you want a thinner frosting.
Spread frosting on the cake once it痴 completely cooled.



Porter Chocolate Cupcakes

Ingredients:

1 (12-ounce) bottle Founders Porter
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 large eggs
3/4 cup sour cream
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa (I used Hershey痴)
2 cups sugar
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter 24 muffin tins.

In a large mixing bowl, combine the Porter, milk, vegetable oil, and vanilla. Beat in the eggs, one at a
time. Mix in the sour cream.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the cocoa, sugar, flour, and baking soda. Gradually mix the dry
ingredients into the wet Porter mixture.

Divide the batter among the muffin tins (I got about 30 out of one recipe).

Bake 20-25 minutes, until risen, and set in the middle (check with a toothpick, it should come out dry)
but still soft and tender. Cool before removing from the tins.

Irish Porter Cake

Irish porter cake is a rich, darkly sweet and moist fruit cake traditionally made before Christmas. The flavors of porter ale add decadent depth and warmth.
Full recipe:

IRISH PORTER CAKE TUTO BY FONCK AND GRUMPF1

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Irish Porter Cake Demonstration

Join us as Chef Michael Kiernan bakes one of Ireland's most popular tea cakes as an example for you to use when entering our Annual Irish Baking Contest. This year, bakers can enter the Maureen Farrell McCarthy Non Traditional Family Soda Bread, or the Peter Desmond Irish Porter Cake. Go to our website (irish-us.org) for details.