Guinness Beer Bread

Another way to use one of my favorite baking techniques: Beer in place of yeast in bread! This one features Guinness and a touch of chocolate. Sounds a little crazy, I know! Don't knock it until you try it!

Not only is this bread great just to nibble on with some sweet butter, it makes a great base for bread pudding. It is the bread I used in the Car Bomb Bread Pudding featured yesterday!

Guinness Beer Bread
ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour 
• 1 c whole wheat flour 
• 1 Tbsp baking powder 
• 3 Tbsp dark brown sugar 
• 1 Tbsp chocolate syrup 
• 12oz Guinness Extra Stout 
• 3 tablespoons butter

directions: 

1.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a 9×5 inch loaf pan. 
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine flours, baking powder, and sugar. Sift well with fork. Pour in beer and chocolate syrup, stir until a stiff batter is formed, but don’t over mix (best to just use your hands). 
3.  Scrape dough into prepared loaf pan. Melt butter and drizzle across top of dough. 
4. Bake for about 40 or so minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean.

This recipe was entered in the March Get Your Chef On cooking challenge: