chocolate cake with raisins and rum

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There are times when chocolate is even better, if only smelled. It 's like a  pleasure you only imagine; you absorb it only through the sense of smell.  This is when you make a chocolate cake: the kitchen is filled with bowls in a water bath with the melting chocolate, that spreads through the house its unique fragrance. Spreading the  glossy and smooth consistency of the chocolate on the surface of the cake is like a massage.

Guinness chocolate cake

Ingredients for a mold of 22-24 cm in diameter

250 ml di beer

100 g bitter cocoa powder

200 g di butter

250 g caster sugar

150 g brown sugar

150 g buttermilk

2 tbs bicarbonate of soda

1vanilla extract

2 free range eggs

270 g all purpose flour  

a pinch of salt

How to make

Melt the butter in the beer over low heat. Add the cocoa and the 2 sugars sifted together, stir and remove from heat when they are well combined. Pour the buttermilk into a bowl with the eggs and the vanilla extract, stir with a whisk and add to the mixture of beer. I another bowl mix the baking soda, flour and salt previously sifted together and then add to the mixture. 

Grease a baking mold of 22-24 cm in diameter with high sides and cover the bottom and the sides with baking paper, letting out 2-3 cm in height. Pour the mixture and bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° for 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with powdered sugar. 

Have a nice week-end!

                       Mony