Malteser Cake!
A two-layer chocolate malt sponge, with chocolate spread filling, malt buttercream frosting, maltesers, and more! Perfect Malteser cake!
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 45 min
- Yield
- 15 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 225 g Dark Chocolate
- 225 g Unsalted Butter
- 2 tsp Coffee Granules
- 75 g Malt Powder ((horlicks/ovaltine for milk))
- 175 g Plain Flour
- 25 g Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- 200 g Caster Sugar
- 200 g Light Brown Sugar
- 4 Medium Eggs
- 75 ml Buttermilk
- 250 g Unsalted Butter ((room temp))
- 500 g Icing Sugar
- 50 g Malt Powder
- 2-4 tbsp Boiling Water
- 200 g Chocolate Spread
- 200 g Maltesers
- Sprinkles
Instructions
- 1
Preheat your oven to 160ºc/140ºfan and grease & line two 8″/20cm Cake tins – leave to the side.
- 2
In a small bowl, add the dark chocolate and unsalted butter and melt together until smooth. I do this in the microwave.
- 3
Add the coffee granules and malt powder into a mug, and add 125ml boiling water and mix – then, add this to the chocolate/butter mix and stir well until smooth.
- 4
In a separate large bowl add the plain flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, caster sugar, and light brown soft sugar and mix well so the ingredients are all mixed with each other well!
- 5
In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs and buttermilk together until combined.
- 6
Add the chocolate mixture and the egg mixture to the dry bowl, and stir with a spatula/whisk until smooth. You do not need an electric mixer for this.
- 7
Pour the mixture into the two tins and bake in the oven for 45-50 minutes. A skewer should come out clean, and the cake should be silent (if not fully baked, it’ll make a bubbly/crackling noise).
- 8
Leave to cool fully in the tins.
- 9
In a large bowl, beat the room temperature unsalted butter on its own for a few minutes to loosen.
- 10
Add the icing sugar and beat until smooth
- 11
Add the malt powder, and beat again. If the buttercream is really thick, add 1tbsp of boiling water at a time to loosen ever so slightly.
- 12
Spread the chocolate spread onto the bottom cake, and pipe on half of the buttercream.
- 13
Add on the second sponge and pipe on the rest of the buttercream, and then decorate with some Maltesers and whatever else you fancy!