13 Delicious Recipes Designed Using Guinness
Author:Lindsey ShookThis piece originally appeared on Domaine Home.
We often hear about the luck of the Irish, but how about the creativity of the Irish? Descendants, citizens, and enthusiasts of the European nation have gotten quite imaginative in their endeavors to incorporate the country’s national drink (Guinness Stout) into their home cooking. From pulled pork to French onion soup to chocolate cake, we’ve rounded up 14 Guinness-spiked recipes that also happen to be downright delicious. We hope they make your St. Patrick’s Day week a lucky one. Click the recipe titles below to be directed to the full recipes.
Guinness Chocolate Cake With Salted Caramel Glaze
The Hungry Housewife
A nice dark stout beer like Guinness makes an amazingly fudgy, dark, dense cake, and topped with salted caramel glaze, it becomes downright decadent and ultra-rich.
Gimme Some Oven
Add some seasonings, a bottle of Guinness, and a few pounds of pork butt, loin, or shoulder to your slow cooker, and sit back and wait patiently for the tastiest fall-apart-on-your-fork pulled-pork ever. Great for sliders, tacos, or even a salad, this recipe is totally versatile and great for crowds.
Slow Cooker Guinness French Onion Soup With Irish Cheddar Crouton
The Skinny Fork
Classic French onion soup gets an Irish twist in this delicious recipe, which slow cooks the onions in Guinness and red wine vinegar. A slice of French bread and a slice of aged Irish cheddar are the perfect finishing touch.
Cooking With Curls
An addictively delicious marinade for ribs, chicken, salmon, burgers, steak, and basically anything you can get your hands on, this Guinness barbecue also happens to be insanely easy to make. Win, win.
Foodness Gracious
Laced with a whole bottle of beer, this milky, chocolate-y cake bar recipe is at once rich, creamy, and produces a delightfully fluffy cakey top. A must-have for any St. Paddy’s party.
Guinness Caramelized Onion Mushroom Pizzettes
Recipe Runner
Having a St. Patrick’s Day party? These mini pizzettes are the cutest thing to pass around. Adding a depth of flavor in the way wine does, the beer is a solid savory complement to cremini mushrooms and caramelized onions. Make extra: these will go fast!
Vrai Magazine
There’s not much better in this world than a warm, soft pretzel with some grainy mustard and a good beer, so one inventive cook decided to incorporate the beer and mustard into the pretzel. It’ll be a hit on game days or a few beers into your St. Paddy’s Day, when the munchies start to kick in.
Guinness Milk Chocolate Ice Cream
Peace Love and French Fries
It wouldn’t be a celebration without ice cream, right? The thought of beer ice cream might be off-putting, but the rich, wrong-right flavor is surprisingly addictive when mixed with chocolate. If you’re a fan of alternative ice-cream flavors, you have to try this.
Heather Christo
A tribute to Irish heritage that’s also an awesome way to spoil yourself, these rich brownies are ultra-moist and deep in flavor, with a little nuttiness. Perfect with a glass of milk… or Guinness!
Oven Fried Guinness Onion rings With Stout Gravy
Climbing Grier Mountain
Because fried foods and beer go together like peanut butter and jelly, one genius soul devised these mouthwatering oven-fried Guinness onion rings with stout gravy. These are so yummy they may inspire you to do the Irish jig.
Guinness Beef Stew With Cheddar Herb Dumplings
Host the Toast
You don’t need a special holiday to enjoy this yummy winter stew, which is accented with cheddar herb dumplings. Hearty, flavorful, and absolutely delicious, it’s the perfect answer to a chilly March day.
A Beautiful Mess
The Bloody Mary is one of the most versatile cocktails, but most alterations we see are usually garnishes or seasonings. This one is unusual in that it alters the base, cuts back some of the tomato juice, and pours in Guinness Extra Stout. The added flavor is integrated into the entire drink… and might we add that it’s delicious.
Corned Beef Grilled Cheese With Guinness Caramelized Onions
Shredded Sprout
Savory, sweet, smoky, gooey, and an all-around perfect addition to your melted sandwich repertoire, this Guinness grilled cheese is a yummy candidate for a casual St. Paddy’s Day dinner or lunch.
