Make your next chocolate cake even more decadent by including a stout in your batter. Here's how to add the beer, and why it works so well with chocolate.

Sift the flour, cocoa and baking soda and mix into the stout mixture. Spoon cake mixture into cake tin ... Allow to cool before icing. Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over simmering water ...

Panhead’s award winning oatmeal stout brings a slightly charred depth to this cake – along with accents of milk chocolate and coffee. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and line a 23cm cake tin.

This recipe, which gets extra richness from Foreign Extra Stout, makes it easy. Just have your favorite mashed potato for dinner and save some for the cake ... in the melted chocolate and mashed ...

A chocolate layer ... boiling water and mix until combined. 5. Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared pans and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, stopping to check the cake at 30 minutes ...