Delicious Malteaser Devils Food Cake!

Hello Everybody! For our first recipe here at Crazy Cooking, I thought we could go with something well known and a nice tummy warmer for the winter season... Low and Behold....




I won't bore you with a long intro on where, when and how this came into my head so I'll just get straight into showing you the recipe and how to make this beautifully made Devil's Food Cake!!


Let's Get Started!!!

Ingredients:-

50g Cooking Cocoa Powder

100g Light Brown Soft Sugar

125g Soft Unsalted Butter (With more for greasing)

150g Caster Sugar

225g All Purpose Flour

250ml Boiling Water

2 Largeish Eggs

1/2tsp Baking Powder

1/2tsp Bicarbonate of Soda

2tsp Vanilla Extract

For the Base Frosting:-

4tbsp Cooking Cocoa Powder

75g Soft Unsalted Butter

175g Icing/Confectioners Sugar

1tbsp Milk (Any kind)

For the Malteaser Frosting:-

40g Soft Unsalted Butter

110g Icing/Confectioners Sugar

1/2tbsp Milk (Any kind)

115g Malteasers

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4/350°F.
Line the bottoms of two 20cm / 8inch round sandwich tins with baking parchment and butter the sides.


Put the cocoa and the light brown sugar into a bowl then and pour in the boiling water. Whisk to mix, then set aside.

Cocoa, Brown Sugar and Boiling Water Mixture

Cream the butter and caster sugar together, beating well until pale and fluffy; It is best to use a standing mixer, but you can also whisk this by hand.


Meanwhile, stir the flour, baking powder and bicarb together in a bowl, and set aside for later.

Pour the vanilla extract into the butter and sugar mixture (mixing all the time) then drop in one of the eggs, quickly followed by a scoopful of flour mixture, then the second egg.


Keep mixing and making sure the batter is incorporated so that you can add the rest of the dried ingredients for the cake REMEMBER THE FLOUR MIXTURE, then finally mix and fold in the cocoa mixture, scraping its bowl well with a spatula.


Cut through the mixture, in the bowl, with the spatula, insuring that there are no pockets for the dry ingredients to hide in.


Divide this amazingly chocolaty batter between the 2 prepared tins and put in the oven for about 30 minutes, or until a cake skewer comes out clean.


Take the tins out and leave them on a wire rack for 5–10 minutes, before turning the cakes out to cool.

While waiting for the Cakes to cool, Start preparing the Base frosting.

Place 75g of butter into a mixing bowl and beat until creamy. Gradually add the icing sugar and milk alternately until frosting is light and creamy. Once you are sure it is of this consistency, add all of the cocoa and mix until fully incorporated. If the colour of the frosting is not as dark as you would like, keep add cocoa 1tsp at a time.


After you have made your desired frosting, lay out the cakes as the middle facing up, Add 1/3 of your frosting into the middle and, using an offset spatula, spread out the frosting evenly.


Place the top cake onto the frosting covered lower cake, make certain that the top and the bottom fit together nicely, then cover the remaining showing cake in the frosting and the sides also.

Time to make the Malteaser Frosting!!

Add the butter into a mixing bowl and beat until nice and creamy. Gradually add the icing sugar and milk alternately until it is light and creamy. Once you are sure it is of this consistency, crush the Malteasers and the add all of them into the bowl and mix until the Malteasers are mingled.



And VOILÀ! You have made a brilliant Devil's Food Cake! I would love to see how your cake turned out and if you have any questions, just comment below or send me and email! The email is: crazycookings@gmail.com Thank you for taking the time to make this recipe or even just to read it :D

See you next time for more great recipes or How To's!