The Irish Car Bomb Cake

An Irish car bomb is a drink that has a shot of Irish cream liqueur and Irish whiskey dropped in the shot glass, down into a glass of Guinness beer. This is something like that, but in a cake.  

Seriously good cake for your Irish friends who love chocolate.

INGREDIENTS: 

For Cake:
1 Box of Betty Crocker Super Moist Devil's Food Cake Mix
1 Chocolate instant pudding mix
4 eggs
½ cup softened butter
1 cup of Guinness Beer
½ cup Irish Cream Liqueur

For Cake Glaze:

½ cup of butter melted
1 cup Jameson’s Whiskey
1 ½ cups powdered sugar

For Ganache icing:

2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup heavy cream

PREPARATION:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a Bundt cake pan.  In a large bowl, add all of the cake ingredients and mix them until smooth. Pour into pan, and bake for 35-40 mins. or until you can poke a toothpick into the center and it comes out clean.  Before it’s completely baked, in a small saucepan, melt the butter, whiskey and powdered sugar, and let simmer for 10 mins. 

When the cake is done, take it out and then slowly pour the glaze into the cake while it is still hot in the Bundt pan to soak up this elixir.  Let it cool.

In a small bowl, add the chocolate chips and heavy cream and microwave it for 1 minute at a time. Take it out and stir it well until it is a shiny, beautiful chocolate ganache frosting.

Remove the cake from the pan onto a plate, and spoon the ganache icing over the top of it so it flows down the sides. Let it rest for at least 15 minutes to set up.  This cake is amazing, seriously good. ENJOY!