GUINNESS CAKE

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GUINNESS CAKE

Author Sue Freely

Ingredients

• ½ lb. butter
• ½ lb. brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• 10 oz. flour
• ½ lb. seedless raisins
• 2 tsp. allspice
• 4 oz. mixed peel
• 4 oz. walnuts chopped
• 4 oz. cherries chopped
• 1 pint Guinness

Instructions

• Cream the butter and the sugar together until light and creamy.
• Gradually beat in the eggs.
• Fold in the flour and allspice.
• Add the raisins, mixed peel, cherries and walnuts.
• Mix well together.
• Stir 4 tablespoons Guinness into the mixture and mix well.
• Turn into a prepared 7 inch round cake tin and bake at 325° for 1 hour.
• Then reduce heat to 300° and cook for another 1 ½ hours.
• Allow to cool.
• Remove from tin.
• Prick the base of the cake with a skewer and spoon over the remainder of the Guinness.

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