Irish Guinness cakes

Name: Irish Guinness cakes
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 40
Ingredients: 175 g Raisins; 50 g candied fruit mix; 25 g chopped almonds; 125 g Flour; 60 g Butter or margarine; 100 g demerara sugar; 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon; 1/2 TEASPOON Gingerbread spice and coffee powder (instant); 1 knife tip Baking soda; 75 ml Guinness Beer; 1 egg (size M); 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar; 80 small praline cups (top 5 cm, bottom 3 cm Ø)

AUTHOR
Harley Romero

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
60 mins

TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 40

175 g Raisins
50 g candied fruit mix
25 g chopped almonds
125 g Flour
60 g Butter or margarine
100 g demerara sugar
7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
1/2 TEASPOON Gingerbread spice and coffee powder (instant)
1 knife tip Baking soda
75 ml Guinness Beer
1 egg (size M)
7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar
80 small praline cups (top 5 cm, bottom 3 cm Ø)

Directions

1
Chop the raisins and fruit mix in portions in the universal chopper and place in a mixing bowl together with the almonds. Knead flour, fat, sugar, lemon zest, gingerbread spice and coffee powder with the dough hooks of the hand mixer. Dissolve baking soda in 2 tablespoons of lukewarm beer. Mix egg and remaining beer. Stir both into the dough mixture with the whisks of the hand mixer.
2
Place two chocolate moulds in each. Pour the dough into a piping bag with a perforated spout and fill the moulds 3/4 full. Spread on a baking tray and bake in a preheated oven (electric range: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 20-25 minutes. Let cool on a cake rack and dust with icing sugar. Results in approx. 40 pieces