Sometimes, just sometimes, when you bake something, you know baking fairies are hovering around you in your kitchen.
There’s a magical feeling in the air. Everything works just the way it’s supposed to.
You’ll find yourself smiling.
And you’ll know because the cake will bake evenly, and to just the right degree – firm, yet soft.
The frosting will almost whip itself up into a fluffy bowl of creamy, delicious goodness.
And when you cut a slice and taste it, you’ll know you’ve been given special baking blessings.
This is what happened with this wonderful cake.
Look how the yummy whipped frosting peeps out so sweetly.
The cake itself was buttery and soft, with a hint of cinnamon and chocolate. The frosting, loaded with Baileys was sweet and so decadent.
And look, just look at this slice.
Come to Momma.
If you love Baileys, you will love this. It’s an explosion of subtle flavours in your mouth- sometimes coffee, sometimes sugary, sometimes chocolaty.
It’s really quite simple to make too! Give it a whirl and see 🙂
The Ulimate Baileys Cake
Largely adapted from: Irish Genealogy Toolkit
Prep time: 25 mins
Cook time: 45-50 mins
Serves: 10
Ingredients:
For the cake
100 g butter, softened, plus a little extra for greasing
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 heaped tsp cocoa powder
175 g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
200 caster sugar
2 eggs, separated
120 ml Baileys (any flavour)
a big handful of chocolate chips
For the frosting
75 g butter, softened
175 g icing sugar, plus a little more if needed
2 tbsp Baileys
For the icing top
100 g icing sugar
2 tsp Baileys, plus a little more if needed
Method:
For the cake
1. Preheat the oven to 180º C and grease a 6 inch round tin (with a removable base) with butter. Sift together the the salt, cinnamon, cocoa powder, flour, and baking powder. Set aside.
2. Whisk the butter and sugar together in a large bowl. Add the egg yolks and mix well again. Now add the flour mixture and the Baileys alternately, in small quantities, mixing well until you have a smooth batter.
3. Whisk the egg whites until stiff. Mix one spoon of the stiff whites into the batter and stir vigorously. Then add the rest of the egg whites and fold into the batter very gently.
4. Pour the batter into the greased tin and bake for 45-50 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin. Once cool, remove and leave on a wire rack, before slicing in half horizontally.
For the frosting
Whisk together all the ingredients, adding a little more sugar if you like it stiffer. Set aside.
For the icing top
Mix together the ingredients until you have a sludgy icing mixture. Set aside.
To assemble
1. Place the bottom layer of the cake on a serving plate. Spread the frosting evenly over this layer, and cover with the top layer.
2. Pour the icing over the top layer, and immediately scatter over the chocolate chips. Cut into slices and serve.
Thank you my baking fairies. Please make my house your home 🙂
I will try this one tonight as we have left over Chocolate orange truffle baileys. Fingers crossed!
Did it turn out okay? Lemme know!
This cake turned out a heavenly! Thank you so much for sharing your recipe! I will definitely be printing this one
I followed your recipe and have one baking in the oven right now! *fingers crossed*
Oohhh mine too! Lemme know how it goes 🙂
i made the cake and it was yummy! i put fresh whipped cream mixed with baileys in between the layers instead, and put crumbled chocolate flake on top with strawberries. my family thought it could do with more baileys taste and next time i will use self raising flour instead of plain flour for a more spongey texture 🙂
So glad it turned out well 🙂 BTW I’m going to be in Cal soon – let’s see and stuff our faces!
Making this for my cake club soon! 🙂
oh yay! let me know how it turns out please 🙂
Hi i would like to know if its possible to make a rainbow cake out of this recipe. Anyone tried with food colouring?
It’s sort of a brown-ish cake, so I don’t think food colour would work very well. But try it once and see. Might work if you have good quality colour.
That looks utterly delish!
Thank you 🙂
my mouth is watering Storm…want a slice.
🙂 It was sooo good! Had to stop myself from eating the whole thing 😛
Haha I know what you mean about baking fairies!
What butter do you use by the way?
I used salted here, but unsalted would work fine as well.
This looks heavenly. I’m trying it very soon!
do try and tell me how it turns out 🙂