Stout and Date Loaf
Emily Davenport
12 servings
15 minutes
270
Irish, British
Baking, cake
A delicious Stout and Date Loaf taken from the Dairy Diary 2022. For more recipes like this, check out the Dairy Diary recipe collection.
Ingredients
- Butter 110g (4oz)
- Dark brown muscovado sugar 75g (3oz)
- Golden syrup 150g (5oz)
- Guinness or stout 150ml (5fl oz), plus 3 tbsp
- Large eggs 2
- Mixed spice 1 tsp
- Ground ginger 2 tsp
- Plain flour 225g (8oz)
- Bicarbonate of soda 1 tsp
Dried pitted Deglet Nour dates 150g (5oz), snipped into pieces with scissors
- White chocolate 50g (2oz), finely chopped
Directions
Warm butter, sugar, syrup and 150ml (5fl oz) stout in a large saucepan until butter melts. Stir well, then leave for 10 minutes to cool. Preheat oven to 150°/130°fan/Gas 2. Butter and line base of a 900g (2lb) loaf tin.
Beat eggs into mixture in pan. Sift in spices, flour and bicarbonate of soda and whisk to a smooth batter.
Stir in two-thirds of dates. Pour mixture into tin and scatter rest of dates over top. Bake for 1 hour and 5 minutes until well risen and just firm to the touch.
Spoon rest of stout over cake and scatter chocolate on top. Put cake back in oven for 5 minutes for chocolate to melt. Spread softened chocolate over cake as an icing. Cool in tin, then remove and cut into thick slices.
4 comments
There is no quantity for the dates all it says about dates is in the instructions Think someone drank too much Guinness lol
Date quantity?
Quantity of dates please
Dates?? They don’t appear in the ingredients list. What is the quantity please?!