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Old Dec 5, 2015, 1:16 pm
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Originally Posted by squeakr
We're having a bake-off in my department and I was going to bring one of my specialties, either Guinness gingerbread or Guinness chocolate cake. however the head of my department is in AA and I have course don't want to do anything to offend her. Does alcohol cook out of baking goods the way it cooks out of other foods? I'd put a note, but if she really can't eat them I'm probably not going to do it.
I would suggest not brining it simply because of the whole liquor aspects (and you can't get N/A Guinness.) I was warned not even to bring beer brats to work once (and they boiled in beer for 90 minutes.)

That all being said, this sounds good, could you share the recipe?
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