Chocolate Malteser Cake

     Birthday cake isn't a usual occurrence in our house. Birthdays tend to involve choosing a restaurant and heading out. 
      So when I came across this recipe coming up to a friend's birthday I just had to attempt my first birthday cake.

     My attempt isn't quite as pretty and the sponge could do with being slightly lighter but it went done fairly well. Cake is cake after all. 

Chocolate Sponge Cake

Rating: Average

Ingredients

225 g butter

225 g caster sugar

80 g malted milk

50 g cocoa powder

4 eggs

200 g self-raising flour

4 tbsp milk

Method

Preheat oven to 180 degrees

Grease and line two 20 cm round cake tins

Cream butter and sugar together until blended

Add the malted milk, cocoa powder, eggs, flour and milk and blend together until smooth and creamy

Divide evenly between the prepared dishes and bake for 30 mins

Chocolate Icing

Rating: Perfect

Ingredients

250 g icing sugar

1 teaspoon cocoa powder

45 g malted milk

125 g softened butter

2 tablespoons boiling water

Maltesers to decorate

Method

Blend together the icing sugar, cocoa powder, malted milk and butter

 Pour over the boiling water and stir quickly until it transforms into a thick icing

The chocolate sponge right out of the oven

Popped on top of each other

Decorated top of cake to hide the not-perfectly-flat-ness