Malteser Christmas Cake

This sneaky cake looks like a Christmas pudding but tastes like a delicious chocolate cake covered in Maltesers! 

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 190 g butter
• 1 1/4 cup self-raising flour
• 3/4 cup plain flour
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 4 eggs
• 300 g dark chocolate melts
• 125 mls thickened cream
• 30 g butter
• 465 g Maltesers
• 200 g white chocolate melts
• 2 Jaffas

• Method

  • STEP 1Preheat the oven to 180˚C. Grease the inside of your pudding steamer with butter.
  • STEP 2In a large bowl put the brown sugar, milk and butter and melt it all together in the microwave.
  • STEP 3Now whisk in the dry ingredients: flours and cocoa. Mix the eggs together in a jug and whisk them in too.
  • STEP 4Whisk until it's all combined. Pour it into your steamer and put it in the oven (no lid) for 40 minutes. Check it after 40 minutes and turn the heat down to 170˚C.
  • STEP 5Cook for another 10 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Let it cool completely before adding the ganache.
  • STEP 6To make the ganache, melt the dark chocolate, butter and cream together in the microwave. Leave it for about 15 minutes to set and thicken.
  • STEP 7Cut the bumpy top off your pudding cake, so that you can flip it over and decorate it down side up.
  • STEP 8Cover the cake with ganache.
  • STEP 9Before the ganache cools completely, start adding the Maltesers. Begin in the centre, forming one row down the middle of the cake. Work outwards from there in lines across the cake.
  • STEP 10Put the cake in the fridge to chill for at least two hours.
  • STEP 11Once the cake is chilled, melt the white chocolate melts in a bowl in the microwave. Leave them to cool to room temperature before you pour them over the cake (otherwise all the Maltesers will melt.)
  • STEP 12Once the chocolate is just at room temperature (don't wait too long or the chocolate will start to set hard again) pour it over the top of your cake so that it looks like the custard on a Christmas pudding.
  • STEP 13Finish it off with two Jaffas and some any glossy green leaves you can find in your garden. You could also use the holly from a Christmas decoration.

  Notes

  You can put whatever cake recipe is your favourite cake recipe inside the "pudding."

  Decorate your pudding with Jaffas, raspberry lollies or even glace cherries.

  If you don't have a pudding steamer, you can cook your cake in a glass Pyrex bowl