Chocolate Guinness Cake

Directions

1. 1
   Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. 2
   Butter a 9-inch springform pan and line bottom with parchment paper.
3. 3
   Pour Guinness into a large saucepan, add butter and heat until melted.
4. 4
   Whisk in cocoa powder and sugar.
5. 5
   In a small bowl, beat sour cream with eggs and vanilla and then pour into brown, buttery, beery mixture and finally whisk in flour and baking soda.
6. 6
   Pour cake batter into greased and line pan and bake for 45 minutes to an hour (Check at 45 minutes for doneness, poking a skewer in center).
7. 7
   Leave to cool completely in the pan on a cooling rack, as it is quite a damp cake.
8. 8
   When cake is cold, gently peel off parchment paper and transfer to a platter or cake stand.
9. 9
   Icing.
10. 10
    Place cream cheese and confectioners' sugar in a mixing bowl, and whip with an electric beater, until smooth (You may also do this with a food processor).
11. 11
    Add cream and beat again until you have a spreadable consistency.
12. 12
    Ice top of cake, starting at middle and fanning out, so that it resembles the frothy top of the famous pint.