Malteser Surprise cake

Apr 8, 2018
2 min read

This cake was amazing and all of my brother friends loved it. It is iced with whipped double cream and has a secret chamber of maltesers in the middle. With the middle chunk you take out you are also able to make a second mini cake!

I made the cakes following Nigella lawsons recipe

Ingredients For the cake: 225g unsalted butter, very soft 225g caster sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 4 large eggs 200g self-raising flour 25g cornflour 1 teaspoon baking powder (if using processor method) 3-4 tablespoons milk For the filling: 2-4 tablespoons raspberry or other jam, depending on the berries 1 punnet raspberries or berries of choice 200ml double cream 2 x 21cm sandwich tins (about 5cm deep), buttered

Method

Preheat the oven to 180C / gas mark 4. If the tins are loose-bottomed, you don't need to line them, otherwise do.
To make this basic sponge cake in the food processor: put all the ingredients except the milk in the food processor and process till you've got a smooth batter. Then pulse, pouring the milk gradually through the funnel till your cake mixture's a soft, drooping consistency.
To make it the traditional way (which is what I did): Cream the butter and sugar, add the vanilla and the eggs, one at a time, adding a spoonful of flour between each. Fold in the rest of the flour and the cornflour, adding no baking powder, and when all incorporated, add a little milk as you need.
Pour and scrape the batter into the tins and bake for about 25 minutes, until the cakes are beginning to come away at the edges, are springy to the touch on top and a cake tester comes out clean. Leave the cakes in their tins on a wire rack for 10 minutes before turning out and leaving to cool completely.
Take both cakes and cut the caramalisation from the edges to show the cake underneath, also level both cakes if they are not flat allready. it is okay if they are not perfect but we dont want any humps.
Taking one of your cakes for the bottom layer, take a giant cookie cutter or a knife and cut out a circle in the centre of the cake; and place this middle to the side for later. Place the cake onto its plate and empty the malteasers into the chamber.
Whip the cream and add colouring until is thickened but still soft. spread a layer on the cake border, not the maltesers. On the other cake spread a leyr of jam around the edge and sandwich with the bottom layer.
On the top of the cake ice with the remaining double cream and place raspberries on top. i then added candles as it was a birthday cake.