If there’s one Irish gastronomic specialty to discover, it’s Porter Cake! This raisin- and spice-based cake is baked with Guinness, a typically Irish brown ale with a strong flavor. No need to tell you what an original recipe Porter Cake is! The Irish have a habit of making it quite regularly, and like to enjoy it as a snack, with a good Irish tea!
Porter Cake presentation
A Guinness cake
This cake is particularly tasty, but requires a long preparation time (it must rest for over a week before being eaten). Made with Irish brown ale, this is a fragrant and particularly original cake.
Quite easy to make, all you need is a typically Irish beer (a stout is obligatory, but you can use anything other than the traditional Guinness) and the patience not to consume it before the ripening date.
In terms of taste, it’s a clever balance of bitterness and caramelized touches, enhanced by raisins and orange zest.
Can you resist?
Recipe: Porter Cake
Ingredients
Serves 6.
Preparation time 15 mn
Cooking time 1h20
Dough resting time: 7 days
170 ml Guinness (you can substitute Murphy or Beamish)
270 g flour
3 eggs
150 g butter
150 g brown sugar
200 g blond raisins
200 g brown raisins
cinnamon
nutmeg
coriander
1 sachet baking powder
orange zest
Preparation
Take a large bowl and beat the slightly softened butter and sugar until creamy.
Then add the eggs, yeast, flour and spices. Once the dough is smooth, pour in the Guinness, the 2 types of grapes and the orange zest.
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees and pour the mixture into a lightly buttered baking tin. Bake in the oven for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Once removed from the oven, leave to cool for an hour, then wrap in several sheets of aluminum foil until perfectly covered. Then leave it to rest for a week in a cool, dry place, until the flavours have fully permeated the cake. (The longer you wait, the better it will be).
Once the deadline has passed, you can serve your Porter Cake as a snack, with tea or coffee!
