YUMMIEST CAKE - MALTESER mmm

this Nigella Lawson Malteser Cake is soo simple to make that every family birthday we celebrate with this recipe.
Delicious!

Chocolate Malteser Cake
150g soft light brown sugar
100g caster sugar
3 eggs
175ml milk
15g butter
2 tablespoons horlicks ( i use ovaltine)
175g plain flour
25g cocoa, sieved
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda Icing

Icing
250g icing sugar
1 teaspoon cocoa
45g horlicks
125g soft unsalted butter
2 tablespoons boiling water
2 x 37g packets maltesers

Take anything you need from the fridge out & allow to come to room temperature.
Preheat the oven to 170c.
Butter & line two 20cm loose-bottomed sandwich cake tins with baking paper.
Beat together the sugars & eggs while you weigh out the other ingredients.
- you can use a stand alone mixer to help here
Heat the butter, milk & horlicks in a saucepan until the butter melts, and it is hot but not boiling. remove from heat.
When the sugars & eggs are light & frothy, beat in the horlicks mixture and then fold in the flour, cocoa, baking powder & bicarb of soda.
Divide the cake batter evenly between the two tins & bake for 25 minutes, the cakes will spring back when touched when ready.
Let them cool on a rack for 5-10 minutes & then turn onto a rack to cool completely.

Put the icing sugar, cocoa & horlicks in a food processor & blitz to remove any lumps.
Add the butter & blitz again. Stop, scrape down the sides & start again, pouring the boiling water down the funnel until you have a smooth buttercream.

Sandwich the cakes together with half the mix & put the rest on top then finish off with a ring of maltesers around the edge.

one simple tip though - sift the flour it make for a less spotty cake

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