Guinness stout dark chocolate pudding cakes with salted caramel sauce. A rich, decadent, absolutely delicious dessert for St. Patrick’s Day!
I don’t drink beer. Not even “girly” beer, “lite”, pale or anything like that. I worked in a pub in London and learned how to pull a proper pint though. The pub was one of the few in London which brewed its own beers, ales and stouts right in the basement. But of course, in addition to those beers, there was Guinness on tap.
For some reason Guinness is more appealing to me than a lager, yet I still can’t drink a whole or even a half pint…But I will steal little sips from your pint. A proper pull involves a tilt of the glass, (20 British Imperial ounces, not an American 16), finished off with a steady return to upright and a little foamy head. My fellow barmaid and roommate at The Orange Brewery, Sandy, mastered the trick of finishing the foamy head with a perfect Shamrock right on top of the foam. I on the other hand, tried, but my wobbly 2 1/2 leaf clovers never could compete with hers, which is probably why I have absolutely no interest in cake decorating or anything else that involves perfection and a steady hand.
I did want something Irish inspired for St. Patrick’s Day and immediately thought of Guinness something. A local artisan ice cream shop, Carmela’s, makes a Guinness Ice Cream which is delicious! What about dark chocolate pudding cakes? I was a little worried about creating a recipe from scratch, because I’m not crazy about tossing away food, especially chocolate and beer. When I tasted the batter I got a little excited…It already tasted good. What would compliment it? Caramel sauce…no, salted caramel sauce!
I am a bit relieved that Daylight Saving Time is on…or is it off? In any case, I can go back to shooting pics after work. So, I made the cakes, the caramel sauce and shot the pictures in less than an hour and a half.
The Guinness stout pudding cakes are that fast and easy to make, and are also gluten free!
Guinness Stout Dark Chocolate Pudding Cakes With Salted Caramel Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup Guinness Stout you'll have to figure out what to do with the rest of the bottle!
- 1 tablespoon molasses
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 eggs
- pinch of salt
- 6 ounces dark chocolate chopped
- For the Caramel Sauce
- 11 ounces 1 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter cut into small pieces
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350* F. Butter 5-7 ramekins. ( I used 1/2 cup ramekins, and got 7 pudding cakes. If you use larger ramekins, you will have fewer) Place ramekins on a baking sheet.
- Combine butter and molasses in a small saucepan and melt butter over a low heat, stirring until melted.
- Bring Guinness to a boil over a medium heat until reduced to 1/3 cup. About 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Add chocolate, sugar, vanilla and salt to the butter and stir until chocolate is melted and smooth.
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs. Gradually add chocolate mixture and stir until blended. Add Guinness.
- Divide batter evenly between ramekins. Place on a tray on the middle rack of oven.
- Bake until edges start to crack, inside will of course be soft and shiny, about 25 minutes.
- Serve warm with whipped cream, ice cream and or caramel sauce.
- I topped the warm cakes with whipped cream and Caramel Sauce. I finished them with a sprinkle of fleur de sel.
- The best part is that even after being in the fridge covered for 2 days, they were still good microwaved for about 20 seconds!
For the Caramel Sauce- Bring whipping cream to a simmer in a small, heavy saucepan. Set aside.
- Combine sugar and water in a heavy medium saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and boil without stirring, until caramel is a medium amber color. If sugar crystals form, brush down the insides of the pan with a wet pastry brush. Watch closely, because it can go from good to burnt quickly.
- Remove from heat and slowly add warm whipping cream. Mixture will bubble. Return to low heat and stir until smooth.
- Remove pan from heat again and stir in butter.
- Store unused sauce in a refrigerator.
The Caramel Sauce is also perfect for sundaes!
Looking for more Irish recipes?
Guinness beef stew
Triple whiskey glazed corned beef.
Vicki houghton says
Wow that sounds great!!!!
Cynthia says
Easy too!
Gerry @ Foodness Gracious says
Ooooo these look presidential and I wany one right now….
Take care,
Cynthia says
Thanks Gerry! Pretty easy too!
Cassandra Stadtler says
Cynthia, this is brilliant. I will give it a try and send my thoughts. These days I love any dessert with chocolate and salt.
Cynthia says
Cassandra, they are delicious! I gave two to Victor M. to share with the family and he ended up eating both!
Laurie@FoodisLove says
I love these! Cannot wait to try them! I’ll be posting them on the FoodisLoveRecipes.com Front page for St Pat’s day weekend!
shauna says
looks great and I will try but FYI not gluten free.
Surekha Kishore says
Hey Cynthia we don’t get Guinness Stout what is the substitute we can use, can u reply me
Cynthia says
Surekha, the Guinness has a molasses type flavor, I would maybe add a little more molasses, or you could just try it without it.
Surekha Kishore says
Thank you Cynthia Gud Day
fabiola@notjustbaked says
There is so much goodness here, I am now craving chocolate so bad!
Matt @ Plating Pixels says
I’d have to be careful with this one. Pretty sure I’d eat the entire thing!
Kimberly @ The Daring Gourmet says
The texture of those pudding cakes looks absolutely fabulous! So rich and moist, I can imagine this cake packs quite the flavor punch!
Steph @ Steph in Thyme says
Positively heavenly! Crazy how simple and easy such a decadent looking cake is to prepare…which means, no excuses to get in the kitchen and make it! 🙂
Shelley @ Two Healthy Kitchens says
How wonderfully, lavishly decadent! Guinness is so dark and richly flavorful – a perfect addition to heighten deep chocolate flavors. And oh my – that wonderful caramel! Gorgeous!
Matthew From Nomageddon says
Oh my goodness. I love cooking with Guinness!
Cynthia says
Me too Matthew!
fabiola@notjustbaked says
This is a glorious decadent cake! I want it alllll!
Allison - Celebrating Sweets says
Oh, yum! And dark chocolate is healthy, so that means I can eat several, right?! 😉
CArolyn says
HI! these look delicious..just Double checking they are flourless? And notgluten free becauseof thebeer?
Cynthia says
yes, they are flourless, but because the beer has traces of gluten, not technically gluten free.
Christina | Christina's Cucina says
A certain someone has Guinness in our garage and I’m going to steal one! hee hee hee!