Chocolate Caramel Cake

Hello there, sexy. (photo by Michelle)

Chocolate and caramel, dangerous. This recipe is adapted from bbcgoodfood. Their original cake does look fun, but I wanted to make something smaller, and with fewer layers. You need 3 sandwich tins (the baby ones, 7″ I believe).

Ingredients

  • 225g very soft butter or margarine
  • 225g brown sugar (or muscovado, I have yet to bother trying out if you can taste the difference)
  • 175g self-raising flour
  • 85g ground almonds
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 3 eggs
  • 150ml pot natural yogurt
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 2 tbsp cocoa
For the filling and ganache:
  • half a tin of Carnation caramel (or if you’re intimidatingly domestic, make it from condensed milk)
  • 100g dark and 100g milk chocolate
  • 200ml double cream (save the rest of the pot if you buy 284 ml)

1. Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 4 /180 oC. Line all the tins and grease well. Cream together the butter and sugars, then simply tip everything else in APART from the cocoa at once and mix quickly until smooth. Now you can either be super arty, or just a bit arty. For super artiness, split the cake mix into three. Add nothing to one, 1/2 tbsp cocoa to the other, and 1 1/2 to the third, and mix. Or the other option – remove just 1/3 mix into another bowl, and add all the cocoa to the remainder. Three or two-tone cake, you can choose.

2. Pour the cake mixes into their pans, and bake for not very long, the sandwich tins cook mixtures quickly. Around 15-20 mins. When done, cool in the tins, and only try to remove when cold and shrunken a little (they don’t come out so easily).

3. Whilst cooling, make the ganache. Either do the fancy thing of melting the broken chocolate in a bain-marie, or just microwave (make sure you know how not to burn chocolate though). When molten, stir in the leftover cream. The mixture may cool and stiffen quite rapidly, so be careful. If by the time you come to ice, it’s too stiff, then microwave in short bursts till more liquid.

4. To assemble, take the caramel and dilute with cream until it is an easy spreading consistency, and use to sandwich the 3 cake layers together. If you have any leftover and your ganache isn’t too runny, add some caramel to the ganache too (nom). Spread the ganache all over and use a palette knife to make professional swirls. Serve at room temperature, not cold: your ganache will thank you for it.

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1 Response

  1. Hi have just made the Chocolate and Caramel Cake, the cake had a chocolate middle sandwiched by two plain sides. My chocolate ganash worked brilliantly this time. Its very rich but lovely and moist, I had the idea of making all chocolate and sandwiching together layers with blackcurrant jam to have a sort of black forrest cake/gateau going on..what do you think?? many thanks x

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