Need recipe for Nigella Malteser/Horlick cake! URGENT

hex2

Please can anyone help me? I talked my small son out of buying daddy a bob the builder cake and instead promised we would do the maltesers cake out of one of the Nigella books. He has made this before and really enjoyed producing a somehwat haphazard top. Trouble is I cant find it - I only had Feast out of the library and suspect it is in this one.

Please can you tell me either which one it is in, or if it is from Feast, please oblige with recipe? I have got the horlicks, maltesers and lots of chocolate, but no recipe and a fretting nearly three year old........

Thanks in anticipation

nabowla

Cake:
150g soft brown sugar
100g caster sugar
3 eggs
175ml milk
15g butter
2 tablespoons horlicks
175g plain flour
25g cocoa, sieved
1tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarb

Icing
250g icing sugar
1 tsp cocoa
45g horlicks
125g soft unsalted butter
2 tablespoons boiling water
2 x 37g packets malteserts

Preheat oven to 170C. Butter & line 2 x 20cm loose-bottomed sandwich cake tins.

Whisk together sugars and eggs. Heat milk, butter and horlicks in saucepan until butter melts - should be hot but not boiling. When sugars and eggs are light and frothy, beat in hot Horlicks mixture and then fold in flour, cocoa, baking powder and bicarb. Divide cake batter evenly between the two tins & bake for 25 mins.

Ice when cakes are cold. Put icing sugar, cocoa and horlicks in processor and blitz to remove all lumps. Add butter and process again. Stop, scrape down, and start again, pouring boiling water down the funnel with the motor running until you have a smooth buttercream.

Sandwich cold sponges with half the buttercream and then ice top with what is left, creating a swirly top rather than a smooth surface. Stud outside edge with ring of Maltesers.

shetitasatic

Just dashed downstairs to get my book - good job i checked the thread again before I posted!! glad you've got the recipe - enjoy!! :T :T

black-saturn

I like the sound of that recipe thanks. I might try that.

arkonite_babe

Hi all, while we appreciate that you are trying to help by posting a recipe from Nigella's book, can we just remind you of the rules regarding copyright.

[post=1720400]Please read this[/post]

Thankyou

nabowla

Think we might be ok with this particular recipe as I left out all of the Nigella 'chat' that went with the instructions. Still, I won't do it again, just in case!

tr3mor

Hasn't anyone heard of google around here? I put in "nigella malteser cake" and found lots of results.

hex2

tr3mor wrote:

Hasn't anyone heard of google around here? I put in "nigella malteser cake" and found lots of results.

didn't think of that at the time - how silly of me.

I am suitably chastised, but I do thank those people who made an effort to help rather than correct me

brokenwings

has anyone made this?

i just put one in the oven and was thinking how runny the batter is

came to pc and googled and it seems like it should be 150g butter not just 15g as written above

anyone know?

anyway its too late now
just hope i havent wasted all those lovely ingredients.

brokenwings

another google half hur found the answer

NOT a typo

above recipe is correct and its out of the oven and smells delic!

leonie_2

Is it 15g then or 150 as I like the sound of this .

Whats it like...... sounds delish!