Maltesers chocolate cake

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This amazing cake is perfect for special occasions. It's also easy and quick - only an hour from start to finish, including cooling time.

Ingredients

Allyson Price, 72, from Cambridgeshire says if you flour nuts and dried fruits before adding them to cake recipes, they won't sink to the bottom.

Frosting ingredients

For the top and middle

Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan).
Line the base of two 18cm loose-bottomed round tins with baking paper, and lightly grease the base and sides with a little vegetable oil.
Whisk the eggs and sugar for a full 4 mins until they turn pale and treble in size.
Add the flour, cocoa powder, almonds, baking powder, salt, buttermilk and melted butter to the bowl and mix to combine.
Divide the mixture between the two prepared tins and place into the middle of a hot oven for 30 mins.
Once cooked, leave to cool on a wire rack for at least 20 mins until cold. You could speed up the process by placing the rack in the fridge if you wanted to. The cake must be cold before you ice it or it will simply run off it.
While the cake is cooling, make the icing: place the mascarpone and icing sugar in a bowl and mix together with the help of a rubber spatula. When they are totally blended together and there are no lumps, add the cocoa powder and mix again. Refrigerate until needed.
To assemble the cake, spread a thin layer of icing on the underside of both cakes. Scatter half of the Maltesers on the base layer, then sandwich with the top half. Finally, place Maltesers all over the top of the cake before serving.

www.maltesers.co.uk

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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Carl Casbolt, posted 1 week ago

Fantastic Recipe!! Loved it. :)

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shema, posted 1 month ago

I love the malteser cake i tried it at home and it was very delicious and very very very nice. I want to make it again the person that found recipe is a master. Thank you for the hint for the cake YUM YUM

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Petra Kidron, posted 1 month ago

I am thinking of making this cake but I was just wondering do you think it would taste as good with other chocolate bars? For example I was thinking of using Mars bars because the person I am making it for says they don't like the sound of the crunch when they eat Maltesers (they sound fussy but they really aren't!) Thanks for the recipe though and I hope there are some useful replies Px

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Aoife, posted 6 months ago

This cake was absoloutely AMAZING!I made it in my food lesson in school,and the teacher said it was amazing and looked like it was from a restaraunt.Im so proud of it best thing i've ever made.

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Linda Rayment, posted 6 months ago

Hi Guys, I made the Maltesers Chocolate Cake for a friends son's birthday,it was a huge hit with young and old. I had my doubts when baking it,I thought it might be a bit dry,but it was moist and delicious. Thank you for all your great receipts and very interesting articles. Best Regards. Linda

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