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!
