Beer-Spiked Desserts for Memorial Day

HECTOR SANCHEZ

Up your Memorial Day dessert game with these awesome beer-spiked recipes.

1. Porter Bundt Cake with Whiskey-Caramel Sauce

© CON POULOS

This richly flavored cake features quintessential Irish ingredients such as dark porter beer, dark brown sugar and whiskey.

This richly flavored cake features quintessential Irish ingredients such as dark porter beer, dark brown sugar and whiskey.

2. Guinness Ice Cream with Chocolate-Covered Pretzels

© Maura McEvoy This dessert, created by pastry chef Cory Barrett, is an ode to star chef Michael Symon's father, Dennis, who loves beer, pretzels and chocolate.

This dessert, created by pastry chef Cory Barrett, is an ode to Michael Symon's father, Dennis, who loves beer, pretzels and chocolate. The ice cream has a strong, malty Guinness flavor that goes supremely well with the salty, milk chocolate–covered pretzels. If you don't want to make the chocolate-covered pretzels, they're easy enough to buy.

Star chef Michael Symon's delicious ice cream has a strong, malty Guinness flavor that goes supremely well with the salty, milk chocolate-covered pretzels.

3. Cherry Lambic Crisps

HECTOR SANCHEZ

Kriek—lambic beer fermented with cherries—intensifies the fruit flavors in these crisps.

4. Chocolate-Stout Tiramisu

© Paul Costello This ginger-spiced cake is soaked in a chocolate stout reduction.

For this rich tiramisu, chef Jason McCullar soaks ginger-spiced cake in a reduction made with chocolate stout (Rogue brewery makes a good version) before layering it with mascarpone cream.

5. Sour-Cherry Lambic Sorbet

© Frances Janisch

"Above all, sorbet should taste--and feel--almost like eating fresh fruit," says ice cream maven Jeni Britton.