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Every once in a while, I come across a recipe that just works perfectly the very first time. This chocolate stout cake recipe from Bon Appétit was wonderful—start to finish.

Of course, luck had quite a bit to do with it. Thankfully, I didn’t have the 8″ pans the recipe called for, so I used three 9″ pans instead. Had I used smaller pans, I would have ended up with about three cups of batter on the bottom of a very hot oven. I also made one and a half times the icing recipe as many of the reviews suggested, and didn’t have a single spoonful left over.

The cake was huge–probably eight inches tall. And, even more impressive was Bryan’s reaction when he came home at 5 pm, saw three empty bottles of Guinness, and assumed I downed them all during the course of the afternoon.