Tom Kerridge make a delicious alcoholic chocolate and ale cake with muscovado malt cream on Tom Kerridge’s Proper Pub Food.

Tom Says: “This is a really simple but still impressive cake, with dark ale to keep it moist and add extra flavour – a great make ahead dessert.”

The ingredients for the chocolate and ale cake: 200ml dark ale, plus 4 tbsp for the icing, 50g cocoa powder, 110g butter, softened, 275g soft dark brown sugar, 2 large free-range eggs, 175g plain flour, ¼ tsp baking powder, 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 220g good-quality dark chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids), 220g icing sugar and 100g soft butter.

For the muscovado and malt cream: 250ml double cream, 50g muscovado sugar and 50g malt extract and pinch salt.

The full recipe can be found in Tom’s book: Tom Kerridge’s Proper Pub Food – available at Amazon.