Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Guinness Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Fr
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
3 cooks on www.gimmesomeoven.com rate it 4.3★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 76.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 142% | 101% |
| total sugar | 417% | 232% |
| egg | 42% | 48% |
| leavener | 3% | 4% |
| salt | 3% | 2% |
| liquid | 164% | 200% |
| dairy | 206% | 117% |
| chocolate | 53% | 67% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 480 g | 2 cups Guinness (or other stout) |
| 454 g | 2 cups (4 sticks) unsalted butter |
| 255 g | 1 1/2 cups dark chocolate unsweetened cocoa powder (or regular unsweetened cocoa powder) |
| 480 g | 4 cups all-purpose flour |
| 800 g | 4 cups sugar |
| 14 g | 1 Tbsp. baking soda |
| 12 g | 2 tsp. salt |
| 200 g | 4 large eggs |
| 307 g | 1 1/3 cups sour cream |
| 680 g | 3 (8 oz.) bricks cream cheese (room temperature) |
| 227 g | 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter (room temperature) |
| 13 g | 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract |
| 3 g | 1/2 tsp. salt |
| 1200 g | 6 cups powdered sugar |
Method: 7 steps, published by www.gimmesomeoven.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I have maded this cake a number of times and it is FABULOUS. It is dense, fudgy, moist, and super flavorful. Absolutely love it with the cream cheese frosting, but I could honestly eat it bare and be happy as a clam. I plan on making it again today for a birth” — a cook, 5.0★
“This one didn’t work for me — split the batter between the three cake pans, like the recipe called for, and the pans were VERY full. It the rose quite a bit (unevenly too), and spilled over into the bottom of my oven. When it was finally cooked, the cakes di” — a cook, 3.0★