Chocolate Overload!

Recently every time I go into our local Budgens, there is a "special-offers" pile of Cadburys Chocolate Fingers for £1 box. 

It made me think of a cake in this style, similar to sponge fingers around a cake or trifle.

So this afternoon, with help from my 12 year old, which you can imagine he was quite happy to volunteer, we put this cake together.

Using a delicious chocolate cake recipe baked in an 8" cake tin, we coated the baked cake in melted dairy milk chocolate.

We had to just chop 1cm-2cm from the bottom of each biscuit, stuck them around the edge and then piled the maltesers on top. 

Recipe:

100g self raising flour

2 tbsp Bournville cocoa powder

1/2 tsp baking powder

100g unsalted butter

100g caster sugar

25g maple syrup

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 free range large egg

4 tsp milk

Large Bar of Cadburys Dairy Milk

3 boxes of Cadburys Chocolate Fingers (you use 2.5)

2 big pouch bags of maltesers

Method:

Cream together the butter, sugar, syrup and extract until light and fluffy.

Add an egg and large spoonful of flour/cocoa powder mix

Mix together

Add the other egg and flour/cocoa.

Fold in the remaining flour and milk.

Bake in a moderate oven (180c/350f/Gas4) for 35 minutes.

Let cool slightly and then turn out to rest on a wire rack.

Enjoy decorating!