Guinness Chocolate Cake with Italian Meringue & Belgian Chocolate Ganache Recipe

For an aspiring food blogger, I am always behind the 8-Ball when it comes to posting recipes before each "National Fill-In-The-Blank Day" or holiday season. Epic timely fail.

I think it's because I become absorbed into researching what I want

to make for my own family. By the time I actually make the recipe, edit

the photos and write the recipe post, the holiday is over.

With this cake, it doesn't matter that St. Paddy's day was yesterday. This cake is good any time of year, and the towering presentation, the contrasting billowy Italian meringue, with a coating of Belgian chocolate ganache truly makes a "Ta-Da" statement.

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