Chocolate Stout Cakes with Allagash Black

Beer cake is a

cake Cake is a flour confection usually made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients and is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elabor ...

prepared using

beer Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grain—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used. The grain is mashed to convert starch in the ...

as a primary ingredient, and other typical cake ingredients. Chocolate beer cakes may include

stout Stout is a type of dark beer that is generally warm fermented, such as dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout and imperial stout. Stout is a type of ale. The first known use of the word "stout" for beer is in a document dated 1677 in the E ...

and

chocolate Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either by itself or to flavoring, flavor other foods. Cocoa beans are the processed seeds of the cacao tree (''Theobroma cacao''); unprocesse ...

stout beer, and some

gingerbread Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger root, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a moist loaf cake to forms nearly ...

cakes include beer in their preparation. The Rabha tribe in India uses a type of beer cake prepared with rice to create rice beer and ''fotika'', a

liquor Liquor ( , sometimes hard liquor), spirits, distilled spirits, or spiritous liquor are alcoholic drinks produced by the distillation of grains, fruits, vegetables, or sugar that have already gone through ethanol fermentation, alcoholic ferm ...

. Beer cake variations exist, such as

root beer Root beer is a North American soft drink traditionally made using the root bark of the sassafras tree '' Sassafras albidum'' or the vine of '' Smilax ornata'' (known as sarsaparilla; also used to make a soft drink called sarsaparilla) as the ...

cake.

Overview

The beer used in a beer cake may impart a yeasty flavor to the cake. The icing on a beer cake may also be prepared using beer as a primary ingredient.

Stout Stout is a type of dark beer that is generally warm fermented, such as dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout and imperial stout. Stout is a type of ale. The first known use of the word "stout" for beer is in a document dated 1677 in the E ...

and chocolate stout beer is sometimes used in the preparation of chocolate beer cakes. Preparation variations also exist, such as using fruit in beer cake's preparation, such as blueberries. A technique is to muddle fruit in a glass, to which beer is added, and the resulting mixture is then used as an ingredient in the batter of the cake. Fruit may also be used to garnish a beer cake.

Bolo de cerveja

Beer cake in Brazil and Portugal may be referred to as "Bolo de cerveja".

Gingerbread cake

Some

cakes are prepared as beer cakes with the addition of beer; the beer can serve to enhance the flavor and richness of the cake. In gingerbread cakes, use of a

dark beer Beer styles differentiate and categorise beers by colour, flavour, strength, ingredients, production method, recipe, history, or origin. The modern concept of beer styles is largely based on the work of writer Michael Jackson in his 1977 book ...

may increase the cake's flavor by complementing the spices used in the dish. Conversely, the use of various beer styles has the potential to a decrease the quality of a gingerbread cake. For example, the use of a lager can create a bitter cake, and use of a stout may imbue too much heaviness to the cake.

Rice-beer cake

The Rabha tribe in the Goalpara district, State of Assam, India, commonly refers to rice-beer cake as ''bakhor'', ''phap'' or ''surachi'', where it is used to create rice beer, known as ''choko'', which may then

distilled Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixt ...

to create a

called ''fotika''. The rice-beer cake is prepared using rice that has been ground into a paste and several plants, which is mixed with cooked rice and previously prepared rice-beer cake. A type of cylindrical bamboo net called a ''janthi'' is placed inside of a vessel known as a ''jonga'', and the rice-beer cake is placed in the jonga outside of where the ''janthi'' is placed. The jonga is carefully sealed with banana leaf that has been warmed by fire, and the mixture sits to

ferment Fermentation is a type of anaerobic metabolism which harnesses the redox potential of the reactants to make adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and organic end products. Organic compound, Organic molecules, such as glucose or other sugars, are Catabo ...

. After aging, the liquid in the ''janthi'' is drinkable as a rice beer. To create the ''fotika'' liquor, the liquid in the ''janthi'' has additional rice cake and water added to it, and it then sits to age some more. After this time, the mixture is then distilled to create the potent ''fotika'' liquor. People of the Rabha tribe believe that ''fotika'' has curative properties for people with psychiatric conditions.

Root beer cake

Root beer cake is a type of beer cake prepared using

as a primary ingredient. Preparations of root beer may be non-alcoholic or alcoholic.

Porter cake

Porter cake is a traditional Irish cake that some people say is associated with St Patrick's Day. It is a fruit cake traditionally made using the beer Porter, though stouts such as Guinness may be substituted.

Overview

Bolo de cerveja

Gingerbread cake

Rice-beer cake

Root beer cake

Porter cake

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