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Chocolate Caramel Malteser Cake

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Chocolate Caramel Malteser Cake is a chocolate cake with a sweet caramel taste and a simple but effective Malteser decorcation. It’s easy to make and is popular with all the family.

Chocolate Caramel Malteser Cake, so simple and so impressive

Chocolate Caramel Malteser Cake is a great choice for a birthday cake. I often make chocolate cakes for family birthdays and I’m always looking for something a little different. It has to fit the brief of acceptability to everyone from toddlers to the elderly and this cake certainly does.

caramel

What is Caramel?

Caramel is a mixture of sugar, butter, and cream that is boiled until it thickens and turns a golden colour. In this recipe, I use ready-made caramel or Dulce de Leche. You can make your own caramel with this recipe from Curly’s Cooking.

Maltesers choolates

What are Maltesers?

Maltesers are small round chocolate balls. The inside is a crunchy malt flavoured honeycomb that is covered in milk chocolate. Maltesers make a really effective and simple decoration and my family loves them.

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Chocolate Caramel Malteser Cake

This recipe is adapted from a recipe by my friend, Karen at Lavender & Lovage – Salted Caramel and Chocolate Fudge Birthday Cake. Many thanks to Karen for allowing me to post her recipe here with my minor variations.

Chocolate Caramel Malteser Cake

Chocolate Caramel Malteser Cake

Janice Pattie inspired by a recipe by Karen Burns-Booth
Chocolate Caramel Malteser Cake is a chocolate cake with a sweet caramel taste and a simple but effective Malteser decorcation. It’s easy to make and is popular with all the family.
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Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 25 mins
Total Time 40 mins
Course Baking, Dessert
Cuisine British
Servings 8
Calories 672 kcal

Ingredients
 

For the cake

  • 140 g crème fraiche
  • 125 g butter
  • 200 g soft light brown sugar
  • 2 drops vanilla extract
  • 4 free-range eggs
  • 170 g plain flour
  • 50 g cocoa powder not hot chocolate
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder

for the caramel spread

  • 3 tbsp caramel sauce or dulce de leche

for the buttercream icing

  • 125 g soft butter
  • 2 drops vanilla extract
  • 250 g icing sugar

for the caramel buttercream

  • 6 tbsp caramel sauce or dulce de leche

for the chocolate buttercream

  • 60 g dark chocolate

for the decoration

  • 121 g Maltesers

Instructions
 

To make the cake

  • 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.

To make the two kinds of buttercream icing

  • 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.

Nutrition

Calories: 672kcalCarbohydrates: 80gProtein: 7gFat: 38gSaturated Fat: 23gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 173mgSodium: 266mgPotassium: 275mgFiber: 3gSugar: 58gVitamin A: 1160IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 70mgIron: 3mg
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  2. 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 🙂

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  4. 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.

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  5. 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

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    • 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.

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  9. 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.

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  15. Jen Price says

    A perfect cake for a celebration, I'd love this cake for my next birthday! Thanks for sharing with #BakeoftheWeek 🙂

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  16. 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

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  17. 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

    Reply

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