Chocolate Orange Stout Cake with Orange Buttercream Frosting

This Chocolate Cake has and orange stout beer in the cake mix and more orange in the buttercream frosting. It's absolutely amazing!

Course Cakes, Cupcakes & Cheesecake

Cuisine American

Prep Time 45

Cook Time 35

Total Time 1 20

Servings Servings

Calories 1453kcal

Author Creative Culinary

Ingredients

For the Cake

2 cups Chocolate Orange Stout
2 cups 4 sticks butter
1 ½ cups unsweetened cocoa powder preferably Dutch-process
4 cups all purpose flour
4 cups sugar
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 ½ teaspoons salt
4 large eggs
1 ⅓ cups yogurt

For the Frosting

1 ½ cups 3 sticks unsalted butter softened
6 c powdered sugar
a pinch of kosher salt
zest of one orange
6 Tbsp orange juice
3 Tbsp Orange Liqueur
Milk if needed
For the Garnish:
Orange Slices See note if you want to make Candied Orange Slices
Cocoa
Grated Chocolate

Instructions

To Make the Cake
Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter three 9-inch round cake pans with 2-inch-high sides. Line with parchment paper. Butter the paper.
Bring the 2 cups of Chocolate Orange Stout and 2 cups butter to simmer in heavy large saucepan over medium heat. Add cocoa powder and whisk until mixture is smooth. Cool slightly.
Whisk flour, sugar, baking soda, and 1 1/2 teaspoons salt in large bowl to blend.
Using electric mixer, beat eggs and yogurt in another large bowl to blend. Add stout-chocolate mixture to egg mixture and beat just to combine. Add flour mixture and beat briefly on slow speed. Using rubber spatula, fold batter until completely combined.
Divide batter equally among prepared pans. Bake cakes until tester inserted into center of cakes comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Transfer cakes to rack; cool 10 minutes. Turn cakes out onto rack and cool completely.
To Make the Frosting
Beat butter until smooth and gradually add powdered sugar.
Add salt, zest, orange juice and orange liqueur and beat until combined.
If too thick, add milk as need to get desired consistency.
Frost as desired and decorate with orange slices, cocoa and grated chocolate (see notes for making candied oranges).

Notes

If you want to make candied oranges:

1/2 cup sugar

1 1/2 cups water

One medium orange, sliced thin

In a medium skillet, combine the sugar and water and bring to a boil. Add the orange slices and cook over moderate heat, turning them occasionally, until the liquid is reduced to a thin syrup and the orange slices are translucent, about 20 minutes.

Reduce the heat to moderately low and simmer until the syrup is thick and the slices are tender but still intact, turning occasionally, about 10 minutes. Transfer the orange slices to a rack to cool.

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