This fun Willy Wonka inspired Sweetie Shop Topped Chocolate Cake is great fun to make and perfect for anyone with a sweet tooth. It is perfect for birthdays and can be customised to feature whatever sweet treats you like.
After featuring quite a healthy recipe the other week, my Gluten Free Flapjacks, to start my new year of blogging, I thought I would follow up with a very indulgent bake this week! The two bakes could not be further apart really!
So last year I baked a few cakes which I have never blogged about due to my baking ode to the GBBO linky the Great Bloggers Bake off taking over much of my baking recipe post towards the end of last year. The cake I am featuring today, was one I actually made last July for a friend’s daughter. Having seen the Sweetie Topped Rainbow Birthday Cake I made for Jenson for his 5th birthday last year, Sarah’s daughter had spotted it on her social media feed and said that she would love to have a cake like that for her 8th birthday.
To make this cake to her liking, it features a chocolate sponge with chocolate buttercream inside and chocolate frosting over the outside, with a white chocolate drip effect.
Then the fun part – sticking lots of different sweets, biscuits and lollipops to the cake! I went with a selection that I thought most 8 year old girls would adore.
The for some added over indulgence, I drizzled some more white chocolate over the top and added some edible stars! I mean, if you cannot go a little OTT on an 8 year olds birthday cake, when can you?
So here is how I made it:
- 300g unsalted butter
- 300g caster sugar
- 6 eggs
- 200g self raising flour
- 50g cocoa powder
- 350g full fat cream cheese
- 1 x 400g jar of chocolate spread (I used the Tesco value one)
- 200g white chocolate (again I used Tesco value)
- A selection of sweets and biscuits and lollipops - as many as you see fit and can squeeze on really!
- pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC (fan)
- grease and line 3 x 8 inch sandwich tins
- cream the butter and sugar together for about 5 minutes until pale and soft
- add the eggs and a spoonful of the flour and beat for a few more minutes
- fold in the remaining flour and the cocoa powder
- divide the batter between the two tins and then cook in the oven for 22-25 minutes approx
- leave the cakes to cool
- once the sponges are cold to the touch, make your frosting by beating the cream cheese and chocolate spread together
- sandwich the three sponges together with some of the frosting
- then cover the cake with the remaining frosting and chill in there fridge for about 30 mins
- after 30 minutes, melt the white chocolate and let is stand for a few minutes to cool a little
- remove the cake from the fridge, and pour the white chocolate (reserving about 1 tbsp) onto the top of the cake and smooth over to cover the top and then let some drip down
- working quickly, add your biscuits, sweets and lollipops to cover the top of the cake, and you can stick some on the drips too
- using the reserved 1 tbsp of white chocolate
- drizzle this over the edible decorations and then add some stars/sprinkles for a finishing touch.
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Last week we had some delicious bakes linked up thank you to those who joined in, and here are your delicious bakes:
Helen made a stunning 40th birthday celebration cake
Honeycomb Crunchies with her clever way of using up items in her store cupboard (1)
Chonnie’s delicious looking wow factor cake (2)
Eileen’s pretty and elegant Norwegian cake (3)
Hodge Podge Days entered 3 delicious bakes (numbers 4, 5 and 6) and I know my boys would adore her clever pizza hot dogs.
Louise’s amazing chocolate celebration cake (7)
My own GF Coconut Flapjacks (8)
Angela’s vegan cupcakes – so good and a clever egg replacement used (9)
Lucy’s yummy cookies (10)
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My choice for Bake of the Week goes to Chonnie for her amazing Gingerbread Cake with Salted Caramel Buttercream, which just looks and sounds amazing! So festive and so brilliant – well done to her.
So if you have a bake please link up below and remember to comment on as many other linked up bakes as your are able to .
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Wow I bet that covers my calorie intake for about 3 weeks but it looks so nice that I’d totally ignore that, haha. Such a fab idea. I never manage to make my cakes look pretty x
Ha ha I know Carolin – it would be at least 1 months calorie intake LOL x
What an amazing cake for a birthday! It looks so impressive and I know my daughter would love something like this too. Unfortunately she’s asking for a princess cake for her next birthday which is not my ideal choice!
Thank you Corina, it is so easy to make too. Maybe your daughter could be persuaded……? LOl x
I love this cake and so would my boys! That gingerbread layer cake was amazing wasn’t it x
Thank you Louise x
Oh thanks for making me your #Bakeoftheweek Jenny. Your cake looks fantastic, I love how its overflowing and ozzing with sweeties. I am linking up another salted caramel cake this week, I am obsessed! xxx
you are very welcome Chonnie – such a fabulous looking and sounding cake. x
Oh thank you Louise 🙂 xx
Wow now that is an amazing sweetie cake!!! The kids would love it! I wonder how many syns are in a slice??? x #CookBlogShare
What an awesome cake – my kids would think all their Christmases and birthdays had come at once if I presented them with this!! Thanks for linking up with #CookBlogShare 🙂 Eb x
wow what a treat is that willy wonka cake – looks so good! x
Wow that looks truly amazing xx
it looks amazing, and I am sure takes ages to make, but ( and this is meant to be a compliment not an insult) it is nicely bitty, nothing has to be anywhere specific and would be a great make for people like me who do not have the skill to make perfection. This is perfection in a different way. Now I just need to see if I can find lots of diferent sweets and biscuits that Bob can eat and do one for his birthday.
WaOo wt a amazing idea u have shared.really nice thanks for sharing