Porter cake

A traditional Irish fruit cake, Porter Cake is spicy with hints of dark porter beer. Enjoy as a lighter Christmas cake or at any time with a cuppa or a glass of something stronger.Use stout if you can't get porter.Well wrapped and kept in a tin, the cake will taste best if left to mature for a couple of days (or even several weeks: see Recipe Notes).

A dense Irish cake that is made with dark, rich porter beer and studded with moist fruit.

Irish Porter Cake is a simple boiled fruit cake made with Irish stout or porter, it's rich and delicious and perfect for St Patrick's Day.

In the past Porter was an English stout widely used all over Ireland for cooking or drinking known also as "the working man's pint". Nowadays Guinness,first brewed in 1759 in Dublin, is commonly used when making this rich fruit cake.

Preheat oven 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Line a 20cm/8" round cake tin with greaseproof paper. Sieve the flour, salt, baking powder and mixed spice into a bowl and add the sugar. Rub in the butter and add the fruit and mix. Add the stout to the beaten eggs and add to fruit mixture. Mix well. Transfer to the prepared tin and bake for 30 minutes, then reduce the heat to 160˚C/320°F/Gas 3 for a further 90 minutes. Note If top of cake is browning too quickly, cover with a double layer of…

Irish Porter Cake is a simple boiled fruit cake made with Irish stout or porter, it's rich and delicious and perfect for St Patrick's Day.

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Heat the oven to 160˚ and grease and line a 6 inch-deep cake tin. In a large pan, gently warm the porter, butter and chocolate until the butter and chocolate have melted. Sieve the cocoa powder and mix the sugars in a large bowl. Pour in the chocolate mixture gradually, whisking well, then add the […]

A traditional Irish porter cake recipe from chef Edward Hayden you'll love straight out of the oven but even more after a week... if it lasts that long.

About 15 years ago I had my first slice of chocolate stout cake in a café in Didsbury. It was probably the best cake I'd ever eaten and I once I started baking regularly, I wanted to make one for myself. I've baked this cake many times now, each time with a different stout or porter. It's such a rich, delicious cake and really very simple to make.

This wonderfully dark Christmas cake is chock full of nuts and fruit. Here's how to make it yourself this holiday season.

Chocolate and beer are a fantastic pairing – and this simple, rich, deeply flavored cake lets both ingredients take a starring role. We used a chocolate porter, but feel free to customize your cake with your favorite porter or stout. Make sure there’s plenty of beer left to serve alongside this scrumptious cake. Yields

This best-ever porter cake with whiskey sauce gets flavor from porter beer, molasses, and warm spices. Get the recipe from Food & Wine.

A showstopper inspired by a historic Charleston favorite. We were after a modern interpretation of Eliza Seymour Lee's historic recipe for plum pudding. We kept her basic flavors—raisins, currants, porter, ginger, nutmeg, brown sugar, and citron (which we replaced with lemon zest)—but adapted them to a layer cake format. We soaked the dried fruits (regular and golden raisins for greater depth of flavor) in porter overnight to rehydrate them and then stirred them into a spiced cake batter. We…

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Don’t be intimidated by the list of ingredients. This isn’t fancy Elven baking chemistry. Like most Shire foods, this is good, solid stuff that can handle a lot of improvisation depending on what you happen to have in your pantry. All you really need is some butter, sugar, flour, eggs, […]

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World famous Guinness beer is a form of Porter, so if you can't find the authentic Guinness, don't fret. Just buy like I did, a nice dark Porter. It will work just fine. You'll need a 9 inch Springform Pan for this one and please use a good quality cocoa to obtain that rich chocolate flavor. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

Makes 1 (9-inch) cake

For me, a chocolate cake is the basic unit of celebration. The chocolate Guinness cake here is simple but deeply pleasurable, and has earned its place as a stand-alone treat.