Chocolate Stout Cake

Ingredients

• 3 cups of All Purpose flour
• 2 ¾ cups of sugar
• 1 ½ cups of dark cocoa (Dutch processed is best)
• ¾ tbsp baking soda
• 1 ½ teaspoons fine sea salt
• 1 ½ cups Chocolate Stout Beer – (Young’s Double Chocolate Stout works well)
• 3 sticks of butter, cut in to tiny pieces
• 1 cup sour cream
• 3 large eggs
• Seedless raspberry preserves and fresh raspberries
• 1 cup of preserves, gently fold in the halved raspberries
• Whipped chocolate ganache
• 12 ounces of good quality semi-sweet chocolate (I used Scharffen Berger )
• 1 cup heavy cream