I’m easily bored, so always like to use or create a new recipe and I found my inspiration at Lavender and Lovage, where my friend, Karen had posted a Salted Caramel and Chocolate Fudge Birthday Cake, many thanks to Karen for allowing me to post her recipe here with my minor variations.
Salted Caramel is very on trend and we love it, but as this cake had to be eaten by family with ages ranging from 2 years old to 90+ years old, I needed to keep the flavours a little more traditional, so I took out the salt but kept the caramel.
Maltesers make a really effective and simple decoration and they certainly went down well with everyone.
More Chocolate Cake ideas from Farmersgirl Kitchen
Chocolate Cherry Brownie Cake is a rich fudgy chocolate cake topped with a sweet cherry compote and decorated with fresh cherries. It is a luscious dessert and a special treat, serve with cream or ice cream.
Fresh Mint Chocolate Cake is a rich dark chocolate cake filled and topped with fresh mint buttercream. Add a little fresh mint and chopped chocolate to the buttercream and take it to a whole new minty level!
This Chocolate and Banana Nut Cake is one of the best I’ve ever made, the texture is fine and it cuts beautifully. The flavour of the chocolate hazelnut spread is subtle, the banana gives the cake moisture and the icing is just so good.
More Chocolate Cakes
Slow Cooker Chocolate Mint Aero Bubble Cake – Baking Queen 74
Triple Layer Chocolate Mud Cake – Made with Pink
Chocolate Orange Cake – The Foodie Couple Blog
Jelly Tots Chocolate Cake – Planet Veggie
Moist Chocolate After Eight Cake – Tinned Tomatoes
Chocadoodledoo Cake (with minted strawberry cream) – Tin and Thyme
Chocolate and Porter Cake – Kavey Eats
Chocolate Caramel Malteser Cake
140g crème fraiche
125g butter
200g soft light brown sugar
2 drops vanilla extract
4 free-range eggs
170g plain flour
50g cocoa powder (not hot chocolate)
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 tbsp caramel sauce or dulce de leche
2 drops vanilla extract
250g icing sugar
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C and grease and line two 20cm sandwich cake tins.
- Put all the cake ingredients into a large mixing bowl and beat well for 3 to 4 minutes with an electric hand whisk, or 5-6 minutes by hand.
- Spoon the mixture into the prepared tins and level the tops, leaving a slight dip in the middle of the cakes so they rise evenly. Bake for about 25-30 minutes, or until the cakes are well risen and shrinking away from the sides of the cake tins. Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the tins for about 10 minutes, before removing them from the tins and cooling completely on wire racks.
- First make the basic buttercream, beat the butter with an electric hand whisk until it is well blended.
- Sift the icing sugar and the vanilla extract into the butter and gently mix together, then using the electric mixer beat until the mixture is fully blended and fluffy.
- Remove a third of the mixture and place in another bowl, add 3 tbsp of caramel sauce or dulce de leche to the buttercream and mix again. If the mixture seems a little too stiff, then add a little milk.
- Place the chocolate in a bowl and either melt over a pan of hot water, or melt in the microwave in blasts of 30 seconds to make sure you don’t over heat it. Cool the chocolate for about 5 minutes, stirring regularly. Add to the remaining buttercream and beat with the electric whisk.
To assemble the cake
- Place one of the cake layers on a serving plate, spread 3 tbsp of caramel sauce over the base (it will sink in). Now spread the caramel buttercream over the base and place the second sponge on top.
- Cover the top and sides of the sandwich cake with the chocolate buttercream and cover the top with Maltesers, starting at the outside and making concentric circles of the chocolates.
I’m entering this for Bake of the Week run by Casa Costello and hosted this week by Jen’s Food
This is my first entry for Cake Club at Kerry Cooks. Kerry is also featuring a Chocolate Malteser cake, they are obviously popular!
Anything goes at We Should Cocoa this month as long as it contains chocolate which this surely does! We Should Cocoa is a long standing blog challenge run by Choclette at Tin and Thyme.
Alison says
oh my, I want some of this now! Passes plate!
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Ali, passes slice of cake.
Karen S Booth says
I am so pleased you liked my chocolate and salted caramel cake Janice, and as a life-long lover of maltesers, I approve of your tweaks! The cake looks STUNNING! Karen 🙂
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Karen, it was a delicious cake.
Cathy @ Planet Veggie says
I'm trying to eat healthily and you go and post a photo of that! Looks absolutely delicious.
Janice Pattie says
oops! Look away and be strong Cathy.
Roz Goodgame TheFoodieCoupleBlog says
I love over the top indulgent chocolate cakes and I agree malteasers make a great easy decoration. thanks for including my link.
Janice Pattie says
You are very welcome Roz, this cake was certainly indulgent.
belleau kitchen says
what a stunner Janice!… I adore caramel so this is such a wonderful cake for me, especially with the honeycomb too. I have to make a chocolate celebration cake for our local village show this weekend so this has inspired me somewhat… lovely stuff x
Janice Pattie says
Thank you my dear, fingers crossed that you get a prize for your celebration cake, I know you have done well in the past.
Kavey says
Oh that looks delicious! I will always have a soft spot for malteasers!
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Kavey, me too!
Helen - family-friends-food says
Mmmm, malteser cake… and with caramel too. Yum!
Janice Pattie says
Yes indeed, marriage made in heaven!
Andrea @ Made With Pink says
Your cake looks delicious. My son would go crazy for this, he loves malteasers. Thanks very much for linking to my mud cake.
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Andrea, I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who didn't like maltesers!
Lucy Allen says
Your cake looks wonderful, I think everyone would be pleased with a birthday cake like that! I could do with a slice right now in fact. Thank for linking to my cake too.
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Lucy and you are welcome.
Camilla Hawkins says
Oh my goodness Janice I just want to have a huge slice of this cake right now! (Wipes drool from chin)!
Janice Pattie says
Control yourself Camilla, I'm sure you have some lovely cake in your house too.
Choclette Blogger says
I'm in Janice, even without the salt! Anything with chocolate, malt and caramel does it for me and this looks fabulous.
Janice Pattie says
I guess that goes without saying Choclette! Thanks for your kind comments, we loved this cake.
Kerry Cooks says
Wow this looks absolutely insanely good! Love maltesers in a cake! Thanks for entering cake club!
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Kerry.
Bintu Hardy says
Oh please, please make me one for my birthday.
Janice Pattie says
Ha ha, why yes of course Bintu.
GG says
Now this is just naughty! 🙂 GG
Janice Pattie says
naughty but nice
Jen Price says
A perfect cake for a celebration, I'd love this cake for my next birthday! Thanks for sharing with #BakeoftheWeek 🙂
Janice Pattie says
I'm sure you'll have a lovely birthday cake, Jen
Jane Sarchet says
Oh that is genius Janice! Jonny would love a malteser cake and he has a birthday fast approaching – Thank you!
Janie x
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Janie, I hope Jonny enjoys it.
Helen at Casa Costello says
Divinely neat and hugely tempting with the caramel! My girls have only decided they like caramel this year after 13 years of being able to keep it all to myself! Thanks loads for joining in with #Bakeoftheweek – Great to have you part of the gang x
Winnie says
WOWWWW
What a fantastic looking cake!!
And reading the recipe – I can only imagine the heavenly taste 🙂
Andrea @ Made With Pink says
What a beautiful cake. Maltesers, chocolate AND caramel – what’s not to love?!
Chloe Edges says
I’m going to have to go and buy some malteasers…
Janice Pattie says
They are totally addictive and such an easy way to decorate a cake.