Chocolate Stout Cake

Chocolate Stout Cake Male: Aspen is America’s Premiere Ski Resort and Ajax Tavern is it’s most re- knowned restaurant located at the base of the glorious Silver Queen. How chicky am I coming to Aspen, Colorado the home of great beers. Colorado the Beer state, I come to the— Ajax Tavern in Aspen and I ask you why would you want to use Guinness when you got so many great beers in the state. Female: Guinness is a great beer it has it’s own flavor, it’s own taste and it absolutely does great with the chocolate cake that were going to do here today. Male: Your going to make a chocolate cake with Guinness Female: With Guiness. Male: Well you can’t really do that with bud can you? Female: No. Male: So what do we do with this? Female: Right now we are going to add that into our mixing bowl, we’re going to add the brown sugar then the egg, all purpose flour and a bit of baking soda, baking powder also. The cocoa powder which is fabulous with the Guinness. Male: See I taste those dark flavors in my head. Brown Sugar, Guinness Female: And the butter. An there you go? Male: And this beer cake is ready to bake, so it comes back as a solid mass of love chocolate cake? Female: It does. Male: And here is. Female: We’re going to prepare a Zabaglione. Male: Beating sugar and egg yolks together over low heat Dina slowly drizzles a stream of Irish whisky to create the Zabaglione. So you got your Guinness soaked chocolate. Female: Correct. Male: You’re Zabaglione with the Irish whisky and what is this you’re going to use? Female: This is just simple syrup which is a couple of water or a cup of sugar boiled and then we added Guinness beer to it. More Guinness in the Guinness Cake. Male: Dina drops chunks of cake into a classic pine flask and spoons a simple sauce of Brandy, sugar and Colorado cherries. Finally a mixture of Zabaglione and whipped cream tops it all off. 7,900 see level here in Aspen that’s over a mile high isn’t it? Female: It is. Male: Because you’ll get a lot if you finish this up. My goodness, I got to try some though here. Let’s start. Female: Cherry Zabaglione and Guinness. Male: Wow Cheers. Is this on the menu? It is now. My God their going to come running this is fantastic. Female: We serve it as an additional while. Male: Really, it should be a permanent. So Dina you said you brought an Italian magnificence to this dish. We got to head back to— where it’s full of Irish and Italian and crazy Australians too.