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General Category => Recipes => Topic started by: Cherry_Ripe on April 20, 2007, 03:12:09 pm

Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 20, 2007, 03:12:09 pm
Taken from Nigella's book "Feast" does anyone have the recipe they could give me?
Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: goldencup on April 21, 2007, 01:26:34 am
I can probably get it for you Cherry but it might take a few days. 
Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: goldencup on April 21, 2007, 01:33:26 am
Actually only a few minutes!
 

150g soft light brown sugar
100 g caster sugar
3 eggs
175ml milk
15g butter
2 tablespoons Horlicks
175g plain flour
25g cocoa, sieved
1 teasp baking powder
1/2 teasp bicarb soda

Sweet stuff for the middle and the top:
25o g icing sugar
1 teasp cocoa
45g Milo or Horlicks
125g soft unsalted butter
2 tbsp boiling water
80 g Maltesers

Preheat oven to 170c. Butter and line two 20cm loose bottomed sandwich tins.

Weigh out dry ingredients. Heat the milk, butter and Horlicks or Milo in a saucepan until the butter melts, and it is hot but not boiling. Whisk together the sugars and eggs till light and frothy, beat in the hot Milo mixture and then fold in the flour, cocoa, baking powder and bicarb of soda. Divide the cake batter evenly between the two tins and bake in the oven for 25 mins, by which time the cakes should have risen and will spring back when pressed gently. Let them cool on a rack for about 5-10 mins then turn out of their tins.

In a food processor, add the icing sugar, cocoa and Milo, blitz then add the boiling water until you have a smooth buttercream. Sandwich the cold sponges with half the buttercream, then ice the top with what is left, creating a swirly top rather than a smooth surface. Stud the outside with Maltesers.

 



 
goldencup2007-04-21 00:42:07
Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 24, 2007, 11:50:38 am
Thanks GC Hug I'm going to have a go at making this!
Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: goldencup on April 25, 2007, 05:57:00 pm
Let us know how it turns out Cherry!  There was a picture too but I couldn't upload it for some reason.
Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: Scarlet Passion on May 10, 2007, 09:30:10 pm
Ooooh that sounds completely YUMMY.
 

 

Have you done yours yet Cherry? How was it?
Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on May 11, 2007, 09:34:01 am
No I haven't tried it because I have been unwell for a few weeks. Perhaps I'll have a go for the next Bank Holiday.
Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: loulou on May 20, 2007, 07:28:43 pm
I would like to make this but my cakes never turn out right.
Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: Scarlet Passion on May 25, 2007, 03:12:24 am

Sorry to hear you've been ill Cherry. I hope you feel better soon. Smile


My chocolate cakes are always a disaster.


I can make scones (fruit or cheese) and I make lovely chocolate chip cookies, even my plain sponge is OK.....but for some reason I fluff chocolate cake every time.

Do you know what you do wrong Loulou? Or are you living in the dark like me? Confused

 

 
Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: R0bbie on May 25, 2007, 04:00:33 pm
This sounds lovely.
 

I am going to make cornflake cakes, and mix Malteasers into the cornflakes.
Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: loulou on May 25, 2007, 10:49:35 pm
Quote from: Scarlet Passion

Do you know what you do wrong Loulou? Or are you living in the dark like me? Confused

 

 

I'm in the dark.
Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: Scarlet Passion on May 26, 2007, 12:02:59 am
I've just realised how daft that sounded from me.
 

Perhaps that is my problem.......Trying to make chocolate cake in the dark!!!! LOL

 
Title: Nigella Lawson's Malteaser Cake
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on June 05, 2007, 11:55:10 am
I made my Malteaser cake last weekend. The cake was nice although I found the buttercream too sweet. I'll try to upload a photo later.