Guinness is Good For You

I did a bit of proper baking today and made a chocolate and guinness cake; the recipe is one of Nigella's, and while I find the lady herself a wee bit annoying, she has provided me with a good handful of staple recipes over the years. 

 
It's a very easy cake to make; I like the look of it - the dark colour of the cake, coupled with the creaminess of the topping - and it really is a very "damp cake" (as Nigella describes it, making it sound incredibly rude).  Taste-wise, I'm not convinced that it's as nice as Very Moist Chocolate Cake (that's my go-to recipe for chocolate cake); that has filter coffee in it, which adds a richness and intensity to the flavour that isn't quite there with this cake. 

That said, the cream cheese/icing/double cream topping is a real winner (and with those ingredients, how could it not be?).  I'm thinking that by adding some cocoa powder, I can use that as filling next time I make a VMCC.  The only problem is that there is a real danger that it might just make peoples' heads explode with the sheer gorgeousness of it all :)

Many thanks to Solveig for recommending this recipe; I'm always on the lookout for new stuff to try.