7 Salty & Sweet Recipes To Make With Guinness Stout
Chocolate Stout Cupcakes with Maple Bourbon Frosting and Pretzels
Saint Patrick's Day, Oktoberfest, fall...there are so many times of the year when a Guinness is a good idea. Plus this hearty stout offers the perfect opportunity to get a little experimental in the kitchen.
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In its liquid state, stout is okay, but have you tried incorporating Guinness into some of your go-to recipes? From personal experience, I can tell you it really is a game-changer! It lends itself beautifully to anything chocolate, coffee, salty, and super sweet. I guess the stout needs a punchy, strong flavor to counterbalance its bitter flavor notes.
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Best Guinness Recipes
In this collection of the 7 best Guinness recipes, you'll see how the hoppy Irish ale is a perfect ingredient match for cakes, pies, cupcakes, biscuits—even jello shots—which means you can now get your Guinness fix in dessert form too. Cheers!
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CraftBeering
If your version of perfect is no nuts, fudgy, dense, slightly chewy, very rich with a hint of beer, this brownie is for you.
Get the recipe: Chocolate Stout Brownies
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Vinegar is the surprise ingredient in this boozy chocolate cake, a scrumptious last-minute dessert to make for your valentine.
Get the recipe: Chocolate-Stout Vinegar Cake With Raspberry Coulis
Jackie Dodd
This cake is much simpler than logic should allow. It's one bowl, barely more work than a boxed cake, and it ends in a rich, fudgy, boozy and beautiful cake that is shockingly delicious.
Get the recipe: One Bowl Chocolate Stout Loaf Cake with Bourbon Whipped Cream
Skinny Sweets Daily
This rich and decadent chocolate cake comes out perfect every time. Using a cake mix saves time, and it always delivers a moist no-fail cake. Using stout accentuates the deep notes of chocolate.
Get the recipe: Chocolate Stout St. Patrick's Day Cake
Jackie Dodd
These booze-spiked cupcakes are the perfect little treat.
Get the recipe: Chocolate Stout Cupcakes with Maple Bourbon Frosting and Pretzels
Jackie Dodd
With a ingredient list that includes cream, milk, eggs, sugar, booze, there's no way not to fall in love with this glass of drinkable boozed-up ice cream. As long as take the ten minutes and make it from scratch, really, it's very simple.
Get the recipe: Beer Egg Nog
Jackie Dodd
The nutty sweetness of that Southern charmer, the pecan pie, is a perfect match for the malty flavors of a good dark beer.
Get the recipe: Chocolate Porter Pecan Pie Recipe
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