Recipe: Stout Cake (with molasses)

Stout Cake

This dark spicy cake is reminiscent of gingerbread. Serve it with whipped cream if you like, but it has an excellent moist texture and robust flavor unadorned. Work time: 25 minutes Total time: 1 hr 15 minutes Yield: 10 servings

3 cups Flour
2 1/2 tsp Baking soda
1 tsp Salt
2 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Nutmeg
1/4 tsp Ground cloves
1 cup Vegetable oil
1 cup Dark molasses
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
1 cup Stout or dark beer
Confectioner's sugar for sprinkling

Heat oven to 350F. Butter and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan.

Combine flour, soda, salt and spices. Beat oil, molasses, sugar and eggs until well-combined. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Beat in stout. Pour into prepared pan. Bake until cake pulls away from sides of pan, 40-45 minutes. Cool 10 minutes. remove from pan and cool completely. Dust with confectioner's sugar.