Irish Guinness cakes

Name: Irish Guinness cakes
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 48
Ingredients: 300 g Sultanas; 60 g Almond kernels without skin; 120 g Fruit mix candied; 250 g Flour; 120 g soft butter; 200 g demerara sugar; 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon; 1 TEASPOON Gingerbread spice; 1 TEASPOON Coffee powder (instant); 1/2 TEASPOON Baking soda; 170 ml Guinness (Irish dark beer); 2 Eggs (size M); 4 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar; 96 (à 5 cm Ø) small muffin paper cups

AUTHOR
Kate Willis

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
90 mins

TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 48

300 g Sultanas
60 g Almond kernels without skin
120 g Fruit mix candied
250 g Flour
120 g soft butter
200 g demerara sugar
7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
1 TEASPOON Gingerbread spice
1 TEASPOON Coffee powder (instant)
1/2 TEASPOON Baking soda
170 ml Guinness (Irish dark beer)
2 Eggs (size M)
4 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar
96 (à 5 cm Ø) small muffin paper cups

Directions

1
Wash the sultanas and dab dry. Finely chop almonds, sultanas and fruit mix in the universal chopper in portions. Mix in flour, butter, sugar, lemon peel, gingerbread spice and coffee powder.
2
Dissolve baking soda in 1 tablespoon of lukewarm beer. Mix 140 ml beer and eggs and stir into the dough mixture. Place 2 paper cups in each well of the muffin tin (24 wells of 5 cm Ø each).
3
Fill half of the dough into a piping bag and distribute into the moulds. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for approx. 25 minutes. Remove the finished tartlets from the mould and repeat the process with the remaining dough.
4
Mix 1-2 tablespoons Guinness and icing sugar until smooth. Decorate cooled down tartlets with the icing.