Malteaser cake with chocolate icing

Ingredients

• 175g butter, softened

• 175 light muscovado sugar

• 4 eggs

• 215g self-raising flour

• 55g good-quality cocoa

• 175ml milk

For the icing

• 80g butter

• 105g 70% cocoa dark chocolate, broken into chunks

• 1 egg

• 330g icing sugar

• 2tbsp milk

• Maltesers 

You will need 2 x 16 cm cake tins for this

Method

Oven temperature 180 C, gas mark 4. Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, gradually beat in the eggs one by one, Then by the flour, cocoa and the milk. Divide between the greased and lined cake tins and bake in the oven for 35 - 40 minutes, TOP TIP to know when the cake is done put a skewer in the middle and if it comes out clean its done also another tip is to touch the top of the cake and if it springs back its also cooked.
Once cooked tip out the cakes and place on a wire rack. Make the icing. Melt the butter and chocolate gently in the microwave or on the stove with a pot of water and place the bowl on top, this is called a ban marie, once melted cool for 5 minutes, then beat in the egg with an electric whisk, followed by the icing sugar and milk and leave for a few minutes so it can firm up a bit.

Assembling

Place one cake on a plate  placing the top down on the plate so you have a smooth top, then spread half the icing on top and with the malteasers halve the bag and crush the halve in a bowl and sprinkle over one halve before placing on the second cake doing the same as the first cake and spread halve of the icing left. Once done place the rest of icing in a piping bag with a star nozzle and going out round the sides and then coming in to the centre to portion it, something like this

To make the decorate chocolate lines all you need is 100g any chocolate and place over a ban marie (pot of simmering water) and once melted place in a piping bag, get a piece of grease proof paper and draw your design. Once done place in the fridge to cool and thats you ready to decorate/garnish. Any melted chocolate left i just poured about 4 tbsp of boiling water in to make my hot chocolate sauce!

For this whole cake i used white chocolate and chocolate malteasers, this picture was taken in college as we had to come up with an idea using malteasers but its easy to make and it was a success!