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Ingredients

Chocolate Malteaser Cake

An incredible chocolate, malty cake that's bags of fun.

Method

Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 3/170C. Butter and line either one or two 20cm loose-bottomed sandwich cake tins with baking parchment, depending on whether you'd rather turn two thin cakes out and sandwich them together, or slice a thicker cake in half, lengthways, and sandwich that together.

Add the milk, butter and Horlicks powder to a small saucepan and heat until the butter has melted and the mixture is hot but not boiling. Meanwhile, whisk together the sugars and eggs until light and frothy.

Beat the hot, malty milk mixture into the eggs a little at a time and then fold in the dry ingredients thoroughly. Make sure there are no little lumps of flour as these will look rubbish and taste like plaster. I sometimes add the flour by sieving it into the bowl to avoid this problem.

Divide the cake batter evenly between the tins and bake in the oven for 25 minutes. They should have risen and will spring back when pressed gently. Test they're done by sticking a skewer in - if it comes out with cake mix on it, put the cake back in the oven for another five to 10 mins. Let them cool on a rack for about 5-10 minutes and then turn them out of their tins. While the cakes are cooling, you can prepare the icing.

Cream the butter with the sugar and then add the icing sugar, cocoa and Horlicks. The butter must be at room temperature or all that will happen is you'll end up with a very tired arm. Add a couple of tablespoons of boiling water to get the consistency you want - soft and smooth but not too wet. Keep tasting the buttercream - feel free to add more Horlicks to make is maltier or more sugar if you want it to be, well, sugarier.

Then all you need to do is assemble the cake: sandwich the cold sponges with half of the buttercream, and then ice the top with what's left. Stud the edge of the top with Maltesers and push more in to the edge of buttercream in the middle. I like to use alternating milk chocolate and white chocolate Malteasers.

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