Milk stout-and-chocolate cake with butterscotch sauce, caramel chocolate shards and dark chocolate icing

INGREDIENTS

225 g

butter

350 g

brown sugar

free-range eggs

375 milliliters

milk stout or non-alcoholic beer

100 g

good quality cocoa powder

225 g

cake flour

1/2 tsp

baking powder

2 tsp

bicarbonate of soda

For the butterscotch sauce

200 g

sugar

100 g

butter

65 milliliters

cream

For the caramel chocolate shards

good-quality caramel chocolate

For the dark chocolate icing

250 g

butter, softened

1 kg

icing sugar

65 milliliters

milk

100 g

good-quality dark chocolate, melted