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Trixy
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18-09-2007, 04:37 PM
It sounds delicious

Is this the recipe

Chocolate Malteser Cake
From "Feast", Nigella Lawson (2004)

For the cake
150g soft brown sugar (muscavado sugar is best for flavour)
100g caster sugar
3 large eggs
175ml milk
15g unsalted butter
2 tablespoons Horlicks powder
175g plain flour
25g cocoa, sieved
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

For the icing and decoration
250g icing sugar
1 teaspoon cocoa
45g Horlicks
125g soft unsalted butter
2 tablespoons boiling water
2 x 37g packets Maltesers

Take whatever you need out of the fridge so that all the ingredients can come to room temperature (though it's not so crucial here, since you're heating the milk and butter and whisking the eggs.

Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 3/170C. Butter and line two 20cm loose-bottomed sandwich cake tins with baking parchment.

Whisk together the sugars and eggs until light and frothy. Heat the milk, butter and Horlicks powder in a small saucepan until the butter has melted and the mixture is hot but not boiling. Beat the milk mixture into the eggs a little at a time. Fold in the dry ingredients thoroughly. Divide the cake batter evenly between the two tins and bake in the oven for 25 minutes, by which time the cakes should have risen and will spring back when pressed gently. Let them cool on a rack for about 5-10 minutes and then turn them out of their tins.

Once the cakes are cold, you can get on with the icing. I use a processor just because it makes life easier: you don't need to sieve the icing sugar. So: put the icing sugar, cocoa and Horlicks in the processor and blitz to remove all lumps. Add the butter and process again. Stop, scrape down, and start again, pouring the boiling water down the funnel with the motor running until you have a smooth buttercream.

Sandwich the cold sponges with half of the buttercream, and then ice the top with what is left, creating a swirly pattern rather than a smooth surface. Stud the outside edge, about 1cm in, with a ring of Maltesers or use them to decorate the top in which-ever way pleases you.

Makes 8-10 slices.
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18-09-2007, 07:52 PM
Well, that got your mouths all watering lol

It is just a cheese cake bottom, digestive biscuits bashed up and mixed with melted butter and some syrup.
The topping is cream cheese, cream ( or substitute) whisked up till stiff, you might like a little sugar, then put in whatever you want.
I used vanilla, bashed up maltesers and some cream liqure,
but the sky is the limit as far as the flavour goes.

So, on your marks, set, GO..............
get in the store cupboard and get making
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18-09-2007, 08:20 PM
Originally Posted by skjerstad View Post
digestive biscuits bashed up
I can't stop giggling. I have a very clear picture in my head of digestives bandaged up, with crutches, and plasters all over them. Some have black eyes, others busted noses..... I'll never get to sleep now - PMSL
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22-09-2007, 10:35 AM
Cor we never got that recipe did we ?
I've just read the thread again and started drooling all over again
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