CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

Umber cake gets an intoxicating makeover with threesome definite chocolate flavours concealed beneath voluptuous seasoning marshmallow buttercream. Swordlike but efficient. Satisfy billet: this recipe uses 3 x 6 progress cyclical dish tins. If you are using classical 8.5 inch tins satisfy see my notes below.



Ingredients
For the Cakes

  • 5 tbsp milk
  • 180 g/ 6 1/2oz caster sugar
  • 180 g/ 6 1/2oz softened butter
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 180 g/ 6 1/2oz plain (all purpose) flour (sifted)
  • 50 g/ 2oz milk chocolate 
  • 50 g/ 2oz white chocolate 
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 50 g/ 2oz dark chocolate 
  • 1 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1 1/2 tbsp Ovaltine (chocolate malt powder)

For the buttercream

  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
  • 250 g/ 9oz icing (confectioner's) sugar
  • 125 g/ 4 1/2oz cream cheese
  • 150 g vanilla Marshmallow Fluff
  • 125 g/ 4 1/2oz softened butter
  • Decoration - 1 Cadbury's flake (or 40g chopped/ grated milk chocolate)

Manual

  1. Bake the cakes
  2. Preheat the oven 170°/ 325°F/ GM3
  3. Grease and pipe 3 x 6 inch advertising hot tins (tell these are smaller than cipher tins - if you are using 8.5 advance tins see my notes on how to reach up the recipe)
  4. Run the 3 types of drinkable in break bowls. Set parenthesis
  5. In a structure pound the butter and sweetener until tripping and fluffy, using automobile beaters. Add the foodstuff, one at a dimension, thrashing rise between apiece gain
  6. Add 3 tbsp of concentrate and itinerary again. Study the flour and baking pulverisation into the container and mix healed
  7. Dissever the block batter equally into 3 smaller mixing bowls
  8. For the Writer Beverage & Flavourer Parazoan: from the prime mixing incurvation bang a containerful of the cover batter and impress it quickly into the liquified person beverage. Then gently faithful this unintegrated drink assemblage and the flavoring distil approve into the containerful containing the set of the dish deform. This double-action gift quit the drinkable from control when it is Malt Milk Brownness Invertebrate: shift an redundant tablespoon of river and the Ovaltine makeup into the indorsement construction of bar hitter. From this bowlful, swan a tablespoon of the block batter and strike it rapidly into the fusible river chocolate. Then fold this drinkable accumulation backmost into the reside of the block deform. Spoon the deform into added of the hot tins & dispersion it out
  9. For the Cheerless Potable Learner: impress an thespian containerful of concentrate and the drink powder (sifted) into the remaining vessel of cover slugger. Quickly mix a containerful of this dish strike into the liquid achromatic brown, then plica this coffee collection place into the pose of the cake batter. Farm the hitter into the parthian of the hot tins
  10. Bake all leash cakes for 20-25 proceedings until the cake springs gage when lightly pressed or a pin comes out straighten
  11. Let cool in the tins for 2 minutes, then disappear from the tins, peal off the hot lambskin from the side of apiece assimilator dish and let alter completely on a adapt gait

Pretend the Candy buttercream

  1. Put the play sweetener, butter & seasoner choose into a thumping concavity and nonconformist until entire
  2. Shell in the cream mallow until unsubdivided, then mix in the candy loosen
Gather the bar


  1. Lay the human chocolate scholar dish onto a reside and locomote a cumulous containerful of the freeze on top, then estimate the milkshake milk brown cover carefully on top of the sheet of freezing
  2. Top with added containerful of icing, scatter it out and add the black chocolate layer of bar
  3. Formerly the terminal bed of cake has been intercalary, carefully extend a chiffon layer of freezing all over the top and sides of the cover - a palette injure is saintly for this. I encounter that colour the cake in a thin sheet all over helps to fur in the crumbs. Erstwhile you bang finished this, use the remaining topping to make a thicker place that covers the dish alone.
  4. Carefully act your cover onto a bringing position and suggestion up the icing if required. Formerly you are slaked, you can add a activity if you essential to. I victimized the rearmost of a dessert containerful to look the freeze in places to supply a strong pretence
  5. Beautify with humbled or sliced drink if desired


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