Chocolate Guinness cake from Feast - Food to Celebrate Life by Nigella Lawson

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  • brenda_bv2nm8 on April 05, 2026

    Cake is delicious - very moist, dense, and chocolatey. Instructions for whipped cream cheese frosting are inadequate. You need to whip the cream to stiff peaks before adding it to the cream cheese/confectioners sugar mixture, otherwise it's just a runny mess.

  • nadiam1000 on March 27, 2022

    I have made this a couple of times and it never disappoints. Quite easy to pull together and the cream cheese topping is a great compliment to the deeply fudgy cake. Mine always sinks a bit but it is not under baked. It is a bit like a cake and brownie cross since it has a bit of a chewy textue and a deep rich chocolate flavor.

  • Laurendmck on March 17, 2018

    p. 286. I've made this several times, this time without the frosting, for simplicity's sake. It's wonderful.

  • stockholm28 on January 30, 2017

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

  • louie734 on March 26, 2013

    The most-requested cake in our house. Beautiful to look at and a batter for the truly lazy - everything is stirred in the saucepan. A moist cake that always sinks in the center, the better to fill with the extremely good, just-sweet-enough cream cheese frosting. A pleasure to look at and to eat.

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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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