Let me tell you the story about this scrumptious chocolate Maltesers Cake.
This cake is fit to be a birthday cake, a celebration cake, or if you are like, you can just consider it as “I-have-no-excuse- to make this cake but am going to make it anyway”. I call this baking guilt. These kind of thought occur to me because, errr, I like bake a lot, so when someone asks what’s the occasions, am left baffled, trying to invent an imaginary birthday / special occasions / reason to make a cake. Just so you know, in my opinion it’s rude to ask people why they are making cake. No one needs an excuse to make a cake.
Now that that’s off my chest, I can move on to our topic. This indulgent cake. You know I loved about is cake? How easy it was to decorate it. Just arrange chocolate malted milk balls. How hard can that be? And the end result looks like it was bought from a fancy bakery. seriously it’s so easy to decorate that my two yo daughter can do it, however I didn’t let to because she’d eat ALL the Maltesers before they made it to the cake.
Notes about the cake:
Firstly, you will need a lot more Maltesers than you think to make this cake. I say that with good intentions. If you are like me, you’ll end up eating some while decorating it. Which is totally ok by me, just make sure to have enough else you’ll have to make a quick run to the store. (Not fun when you’re in the middle of decorating a cake)
Next time am making this am skipping the buttercream and frosting it with ganache instead. I found the buttercream not sticky enough for my precious Maltesers.
I used 8” cake pans, I recommend using a 9” cake pans instead, there was just alot of cake batter for an 8″ pan.
Prep Time: 50 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Total Time: 2 hours
Yield: one cake, 2 layers, serves 9
Ingredients
- cake
- 2 cups (230 g) flour
- ¾ cup (90 g) cocoa powder
- ½ cup (90 g) malt powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup (220 g) butter, room temp
- 1 cup (200 g) white sugar
- ½ cup (100 g) brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup (250 ml) milk chocolate Ganache
- ½ cup (125 ml) whipping cream
- ½ cup (100 g) semi sweet chocolate chips chocolate butter cream
- ½ cup (113 g) butter, room temperature
- 1 cup (100 g) powder sugar, sifted
- 4 tbsp malt powder
- 4 tbsp milk
- 15 – 20 Maltesers bag (each bags weighs ~ 37 g)
Steps
- Cake
- Preheat oven to 180°C / 350° F / Gas mark 4.
- Spray two 8” cake pans with non stick vegetable oil. Place two disks of parchment paper into the pans. Set aside.
- In a large bowl sift the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa, malt, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the butter, two kinds of sugar until light and fluffy. About 5 minute on medium high speed.
- Add the eggs one by one, mixing well after each addition.
- With the mixer on low speed, slowly and gradually add the dry ingredients alternate between the dry ingredient and milk until all ingredients are used. Mix for additional 5 minutes on medium high.
- Pour into the prepared cake pan and bake for 40 – 45 minutes, or until a tooth pick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Cool completely on a wire rack before decorating. Chocolate Ganache
- In a medium size sauce pan, bring the cream to boil. Watch closely, you don’t want the cream to boil for long.
- Place the chocolate in a heat proof bowl, pour the cream immediately and whisk until all chocolate has melted. Allow to cool and come to room temperature.
- In the mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, mix on high speed for 2 – 3 minutes.
- Let it cool in the fridge. chocolate buttercream
- In the bowl of stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter until light and fluffy.
- With the mixer on low speed, add the powder sugar gradually.
- Add the malt powder. Mix for 3 minutes, on medium high speed.
- Reduce the speed to low, add the milk. Assembly
- Place one cake layer on turntable. Spread chocolate ganache. Place the second layer on top and press gently. Frost the cake using the buttercream. Decorate with chocolate malted milk balls.
See you next cake.
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