Vanilla Malt Cake with Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting
The best thing about valentine's day for me are the desserts that I make and share; Valentine's day is a day when I share my love for desserts with a ton of my friends. This year, I made one of my most delicious, indulgent cakes yet, a vanilla malt cake with caramel cream cheese frosting!
- Prep time
- 9 min
- Cook time
- 21 min
- Yield
- 15 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2½ cups All purpose flour ((350g))
- 1¼ cups sugar
- 1 cup malt soda ((aka malta))
- ½ cup unflavored oil ((I used canola oil))
- ¼ cup yogurt
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp salt
- 8oz/ 227g salted butter (room temperature) ((2 sticks))
- 8oz/ 227g cream cheese (room temperature)
- 6.7oz/ 110g dulce de leche ((¼ cup))
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp salt
Instructions
- 1
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Prepare two 8 inch round pans for baking as well and set aside.
- 2
In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- 3
In another bowl, whisk the sugar, oil, yogurt and vanilla extract.
- 4
Create a well in the middle of the flour mixture, and pour in the yogurt mixture. Mix until it is just combined.
- 5
Pour the malt soda into the cake mixture and fold gently until the mixture is homogeneous.
- 6
Split the cake mixture into the two prepared pans, and bake in the preheated oven for 25-27 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
- 7
Once the cakes are done in the oven, take them out and cool them in the pan for five minutes before turning them onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
- 8
While the cake is cooling, whip the frosting together by beating the butter, cream cheese, dulce de leche, powdered sugar, vanilla extract and ¼ tsp salt. Works best using an electric mixer.
- 9
To assemble the cake, spread some of the frosting on top of one of the cooled cake sponges and place the second layer on top of that. Smooth on more frosting to the top and sides of the cake.
- 10
Optional: top the frosted cake with chocolate candy.