Michelle Darmody: How to make my popular chocolate stout cake

You can also make cute cupcakes with this recipe

This chocolate stout cake was one of the cakes I was most often asked to bake when I ran a bakery in Dublin. It has a wonderful mix of the slight savouriness from the malt of the stout, and the sweet creaminess of the icing.

It is a recipe made famous by Nigella Lawson in the early 2000s and has been adapted and tweaked by bakers ever since.