Chocolate Caramel Malteser Cake
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 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.
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.
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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Moist Chocolate After Eight Cake – Tinned Tomatoes
Chocadoodledoo Cake (with minted strawberry cream) – Tin and Thyme
Chocolate and Porter Cake – Kavey Eats
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
Ingredients
For the cake
- 140 grams crème fraiche
- 125 grams butter
- 200 grams soft light brown sugar
- 2 drops vanilla extract
- 4 free-range eggs
- 170 grams plain flour
- 50 grams cocoa powder not hot chocolate
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
for the caramel spread
- 3 tablespoon caramel sauce or dulce de leche
for the buttercream icing
- 125 grams soft butter
- 2 drops vanilla extract
- 250 grams icing sugar
for the caramel buttercream
- 6 tablespoon caramel sauce or dulce de leche
for the chocolate buttercream
- 60 grams dark chocolate
for the decoration
- 121 grams 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.
oh my, I want some of this now! Passes plate!
Thanks Ali, passes slice of cake.
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 🙂
Thanks Karen, it was a delicious cake.
I'm trying to eat healthily and you go and post a photo of that! Looks absolutely delicious.
oops! Look away and be strong Cathy.
I love over the top indulgent chocolate cakes and I agree malteasers make a great easy decoration. thanks for including my link.
You are very welcome Roz, this cake was certainly indulgent.
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
Thank you my dear, fingers crossed that you get a prize for your celebration cake, I know you have done well in the past.
Oh that looks delicious! I will always have a soft spot for malteasers!
Thanks Kavey, me too!
Mmmm, malteser cake… and with caramel too. Yum!
Yes indeed, marriage made in heaven!
Your cake looks delicious. My son would go crazy for this, he loves malteasers. Thanks very much for linking to my mud cake.
Thanks Andrea, I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who didn't like maltesers!
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.
Thanks Lucy and you are welcome.
Oh my goodness Janice I just want to have a huge slice of this cake right now! (Wipes drool from chin)!
Control yourself Camilla, I'm sure you have some lovely cake in your house too.
I'm in Janice, even without the salt! Anything with chocolate, malt and caramel does it for me and this looks fabulous.
I guess that goes without saying Choclette! Thanks for your kind comments, we loved this cake.
Wow this looks absolutely insanely good! Love maltesers in a cake! Thanks for entering cake club!
Thanks Kerry.
Oh please, please make me one for my birthday.
Ha ha, why yes of course Bintu.
Now this is just naughty! 🙂 GG
naughty but nice
A perfect cake for a celebration, I'd love this cake for my next birthday! Thanks for sharing with #BakeoftheWeek 🙂
I'm sure you'll have a lovely birthday cake, Jen
Oh that is genius Janice! Jonny would love a malteser cake and he has a birthday fast approaching – Thank you!
Janie x
Thanks Janie, I hope Jonny enjoys it.
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
WOWWWW
What a fantastic looking cake!!
And reading the recipe – I can only imagine the heavenly taste 🙂
What a beautiful cake. Maltesers, chocolate AND caramel – what’s not to love?!
I’m going to have to go and buy some malteasers…
They are totally addictive and such an easy way to decorate a cake.