Kathy’s Chocolate Beer Cake is a moist, dense, rich, homemade chocolate bundt cake with some fun ingredients – beer, butter milk, and maraschino cherries!
Ingredients:
2/3 cup Shortening
2 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 oz unsweetened chocolate squares, melted
3 cup all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3/4 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup maraschino cherry juice
1 cup maraschino cherries, drained (reserve 1/4 cup juice) and chopped
12 oz cold beer
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare bundt pan with baking spray or cooking spray and lightly flour. In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking soda and salt, set aside. In a large bowl, cream together shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time until combined. Add cooled, melted chocolate. Alternatively add flour mix with buttermilk, cherry juice and beer. Stir in chopped cherries. Pour batter into prepared bundt pan. Bake 50-55 minutes until cooked through. Let cake cool on rack for 20-25 minutes. Invert onto plate, cool cake completely, Drizzle with glaze or dust with powdered sugar.
Glaze:
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp buttermilk
Combine all ingredients until mixed through.
By Kathy Kasza from Waupaca. As seen on FOX11 Online.