Title: Guiness Gingerbread Cake
Categories: Dessert Irish
Yield: 1 Cake

CAKE
2 1/2	c	Flour
2	ts	Ground ginger
2	ts	Ground cinnamon
2	ts	Baking soda
1/2	ts	Ground cloves
1/2	ts	Salt
1	c	Butter at room temperature
2	lg	Eggs, at room temperature
1 1/4	c	Light brown sugar, packed
1	c	Molasses
3/4	c	Guiness Stout (FLAT)
DECORATION
		Sifted confectioners sugar
BLACKBERRY DRIZZLE SAUCE
1		Jar of blackberry preserves

Heat oven to 350. Butter and flour bundt pan. Sift together dry ingredients. Set aside.

In large bowl, with electric mixer, beat butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs. Beat in the molasses. Add in dry ingredients. Beat in the Guiness. Beat well until all ingredients are well mixed.

Pour into prepared pan and bake 50 to 60 minutes or until done. Cool completely on wire rack BEFORE removing from pan.

When completely cool, decorate with sifted confectioners sugar.

For blackberry sauce, sieve seeds from blackberry preserves, then heat preserves to melt.

Drizzle blackberry sauce over cake.

Doodle & Poodle Pub, Columbia, Md. Barbara Wright, Chef.

Columbia Flier, March 14, 1996

== Courtesy of Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md. ==

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