Making a Maltesers Pouring Cake is actually not as complicated as you might think. Plus the finished result certainly has a wow factor when you present it to friends and family.
It has become a bit of a tradition now to make my OH a grand birthday cake each year. Previous years have seen me make him cakes using his favourite chocolates: a Ferrero Rocher cake and a Chocolate Orange one.
This year I was orignally going to make one using creme eggs, but then a certain young boy beginning with J said he fancied a Malteser one, and so that was the decision made! A Maltesers Pouring Cake it would be – he even helped me crack the eggs
I have made a few birthday cakes using Maltesers now (you can search them on my blog if you would like). However, I have never attempted the so called Pouring Maltesers cake effect. Therefore, I thought this would be the perfect oportunity. It was relatively easy, although it required more Maltesers than I had envisaged, and therefore, I had to pop out to the shop late Friday night to get in some more supplies!
Plus, now I know for another time that milk chocolate would have been better to use as a ‘glue’ instead of the dark chocolate I had at home, so as to blend in better with the colour of the Maltesers. However that said, I think I just pulled it off.
So here is the recipe for my Maltesers Pouring Cake
- 200g unsalted butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 150g self raising flour
- 50g cocoa powder
- 4 eggs
- Betty Crocker vanilla buttercream
- 2 tbsp chocolate spread
- 100g cream cheese
- 3 large grab bags of Maltesers
- 1 standard packet of Maltesers
- 1 straw
- 1 cocktail stick
- 50g milk chocolate
- pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC (fan)
- grease and line 2 x 8inch cake tins
- beat the butter and sugar together for about 5 minutes until pale and creamy
- add the eggs and a tbsp of the flour and beat again for another few minutes
- carefully fold in the remaining flour and the cocoa powder until mixed in
- pour into the two cake tins and smooth over
- cook in the oven for 22-25 minutes until cooked right through
- remove and allow to cool completely
- mix the cream cheese and chocolate spread together to make a smooth frosting
- once the cake has cooled completely, sandwich together with the vanilla buttercream
- then cover the entire cake with the chocolate frosting
- then cover the entire cake with the Maltesers - keep back about 25
- in the centre of the cake insert the straw
- melt the chocolate
- then stick Maltesers to the straw using the melted chocolate glue as per my photo
- take the cocktail stick and using some of the melted chocolate stick the corner of the smaller Maltesers bag to it (as per my photo)
- Then insert the cocktail stick into the top Malteser on the straw
It tasted great and I think it had the ‘wow’ factor, so all in all a success!! Phew!
A ha! Now i Know the secret! Awesome cake – what a lucky birthday boy!
Ah fab, this is one that I have been meaning to try out. Looks so effective
You are so clever! This looks fab! x
That is such a clever idea and looks really amazing #TastyTuesdays
Oh. My. Goodness. Me.
It’s my 30th in September, feel free to send me a cake just like that. Thanks xx
That’s amazing!!!!! I want to try it!
That is brilliant, it looks so effective. Bet it was lovely
OMG love this x
So gorgeous! Pinterest-perfect. Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays x
That really is brilliant! I can’t ever imagine being able to make something like this. I bet it went down really well!
What a stunning looking cake!
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This looks like my heaven! Fantastic!
Such a brilliant cake and you can never get sick of eating maltesers!
Hoping to make this, hope it goes as well as yours!
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