Problem with the Beer Cake icing
Asked on 29 Mar 2019 by Deb
Hi Lindsey,
I am a great fan of Delia, enjoying lots of her fantastic recipes over many years.
Recently I tried making the Chocolate Beer Cake but had a problem when making the icing which thickened almost right away making it difficult to spread on the cake. I ended up having to roll out the icing and placing it on the top of the cake. The flavour was great but it did not have the expected glossy appearance. I did use traditional butter rather than spreadable. Would that be the reason for this problem? Thank you, Debbie
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Hello Debbie,
Spreadable butter doesn’t solidify like block butter so yes that may be part of the reason. It may also be that you overheated the chocolate as that will make the icing harder too.
And lastly, Delia uses old fashioned tablespoons in her recipes which are 20mls or 2 dessertspoons so for this recipe it is 40mls of stout.
Kind regards
Lindsey
That is very helpful. I will take that on board and try again!
Thanks for your help.