Millionaires Loaf Cake
A brown sugar cake filled with a caramel sauce, topped with silky smooth chocolate buttercream frosting = the best millionaires loaf cake!
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 50 min
- Yield
- 10 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
- 225 g unsalted butter
- 225 g dark brown soft sugar
- 225 g self-raising flour
- 4 medium eggs
- 250 g caramel
- a pinch salt ((optional))
- 150 g unsalted butter ((room temp))
- 275 g icing sugar
- 25 g cocoa powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract ((optional))
- millionaires bites
- sprinkles
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 180ºc/160ºfan and line a 2lb loaf tin.
- 2
Beat together the unsalted butter and dark brown soft sugar until creamy
- 3
Add the self raising flour and eggs, and beat again until smooth.
- 4
Pour this into the tin, smooth over and bake for 50-60+ minutes.
- 5
Once baked, leave to cool fully in the tin.
- 6
Mix the caramel with the salt if you want to make it salted caramel.
- 7
Core out the middle section of the loaf cake - I cut down a couple of centimetres with a 1" border around the cake.
- 8
Fill the hole with the caramel.
- 9
Beat the unsalted butter on its own for several minutes to loosen
- 10
Add the icing sugar, and cocoa powder (and vanilla if using) and beat until smooth.
- 11
Pipe this onto the cake however you like, and then top with millionaires bites and sprinkles!