Drink beer, and you'll be all right

[venta]

So... anyone got any ideas on how to bake a beer-flavoured cake?

Having been caught up in the heady excitement of my rapper team's Facebook page, I have accidentally agreed to make someone a cake "made out of beer". I have remarkably little idea of how to proceed.

A quick google suggests that recipes for chocolate and stout cake exist. My mum makes a Guinness cake, but (although it's lovely) it tastes more of fruit cake than of Guinness. I'm currently inclining towards this Spiced Beer Cake recipe - though again I'm worried that the spices (while nice) will detract from the beery flavour.

Any advice? Please note I don't want a cake that looks like a foaming tankard, or is iced to resemble a bottle... I want a cake that contains and (preferably) tastes noticeably of beer.

I need to bake my cake next Thursday (to be delivered on Friday), so not a lot of time for experimentation...

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[venta.livejournal.com]

Think I'll have to start with a lightning trawl of health food shops on Saturday morning and see what I can scare up - since I need to do my experimenting this weekend, online shops are out. Apparently a nearby-ish chemist to me stocks some bits and bobs (or did, when someone posted about it on t'internet a while back); it seems our local Wilko used to, but no longer does.

What can possibly go wrong!?