Chocolate Guinness cake from Feast - Food That Celebrates Life (UK) (page 286) by Nigella Lawson

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  • victoria_lmmmv6 on March 25, 2026

    Fabulous! Damp and chocolatey

  • Beth891 on November 20, 2024

    I've made this quite a few times over the years. Not always with the cream and cream cheese topping, sometimes just with cream cheese icing - but either way it's delicious! Definitely one of my favourite cakes and loved by anyone who's tried it.

  • stef on April 11, 2018

    Everyone loved this cake. Will be repeated

  • Pangur Ban on March 14, 2018

    Per Nigella (the woman herself! on twitter!), add a teaspoon of cornflour to the icing if all you can get is the 'spreadable' Philadelphia in tubs, helps it to stop going runny.

  • stockholm28 on November 10, 2017

    Very tasty and moist chocolate cake. Mine sunk in the middle but just added extra icing in the center.

  • redjanet on January 03, 2015

    This was a very easy cake to make and turned out moist and delicious. I don't like Guinness (or any beer for the matter), and I was pleased that instead of giving it a any flavour of beer, the stout just added a more intensity of flavour. The cream cheese frosting gave the perfect contrast to the rich chocolate cake.

  • Melanie on March 09, 2014

    Delicious - I took this to a St Patrick's Day feast with friends a couple of years ago. The guinness isn't particularly strong and instead just adds "something else".

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Reviews about this recipe

  • Amateur Gourmet

    ...make it anytime you want a good, unusual chocolate cake. And whatever Guinness you don’t use in the cake, you can drink afterwards: how many chocolate cake recipes offer free beer?

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