Beer cake is acake prepared usingbeer as a primary ingredient, and other typical cake ingredients.[1] Chocolate beer cakes may includestout andchocolate stout beer, and somegingerbread cakes include beer in their preparation. TheRabha tribe in India uses a type of beer cake prepared with rice to createrice beer andfotika, aliquor. Beer cake variations exist, such asroot beer cake.
The beer used in a beer cake may impart a yeasty flavor to the cake.[2] Theicing on a beer cake may also be prepared using beer as a primary ingredient.[3]Stout and chocolate stout beer is sometimes used in the preparation of chocolate beer cakes.[4][5]
Preparation variations also exist, such as using fruit in beer cake's preparation, such as blueberries.[6] A technique is tomuddle fruit in a glass, to which beer is added, and the resulting mixture is then used as an ingredient in thebatter of the cake.[6] Fruit may also be used togarnish a beer cake.[citation needed]
Beer cake in Brazil and Portugal may be referred to as "Bolo de cerveja".[7][8]
Somegingerbread cakes are prepared as beer cakes with the addition of beer; the beer can serve to enhance the flavor and richness of the cake.[9] In gingerbread cakes, use of adark beer may increase the cake's flavor by complementing the spices used in the dish.[9] Conversely, the use of various beer styles has the potential to a decrease the quality of a gingerbread cake.[9] For example, the use of a lager can create a bitter cake, and use of a stout may imbue too much heaviness to the cake.[9]
TheRabha tribe in theGoalpara district, State of Assam, India, commonly refers to rice-beer cake asbakhor,phap orsurachi, where it is used to createrice beer, known aschoko, which may thendistilled to create aliquor calledfotika.[1] The rice-beer cake is prepared using rice that has been ground into apaste and several plants, which is mixed with cooked rice and previously prepared rice-beer cake.[1] A type of cylindrical bamboo net called ajanthi is placed inside of a vessel known as ajonga, and the rice-beer cake is placed in the jonga outside of where thejanthi is placed.[1] The jonga is carefully sealed with banana leaf that has been warmed by fire, and the mixture sits toferment.[1] After aging, the liquid in thejanthi is drinkable as a rice beer.[1] To create thefotika liquor, the liquid in thejanthi has additional rice cake and water added to it, and it then sits to age some more. After this time, the mixture is then distilled to create the potentfotika liquor.[1] People of the Rabha tribe believe thatfotika has curative properties for people with psychiatric conditions.[1]
Root beer cake is a type of beer cake prepared usingroot beer as a primary ingredient.[10][11] Preparations of root beer may be non-alcoholic or alcoholic.[citation needed]
Porter cake is a traditional Irish cake that some people say is associated with St Patrick's Day.[12] It is a fruit cake traditionally made using the beer Porter, though stouts such as Guinness may be substituted.[13]
