Recipe

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• 1 cup stout beer (try to find 1 with a heavy malt flavour)
• 1/2 cup butter, sliced
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 75 g dark cocoa ( not dutch-process)
• 400 g sugar
• 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
• 1 egg
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• 200 g plain flour
• 75 g cake flour
• 2 1/2 tsp baking soda

• 1 Preheat the oven to 350F, and grease and line a 9 inch springform tin.
• 2 Pour the stout into a large saucepan, and add the sliced butter.
• 3 Heat until the butter is melted, and remove the saucepan from the heat. Stir in applesauce.
• 4 Whisk in the cocoa and sugar.
• 5 Beat the yogurt with the egg, yolks and vanilla, then pour into the saucepan. Stir well.
• 6 Stir in the flour and baking soda with a spatula (batter will be thick and dense).
• 7 Pour the batter into the greased and lined tin, and bake for an hour.
• 8 Leave to completely cool in the tin - this is very important because it is quite a large, damp cake.