Chocolate Malteser Cake

 

Jane Austen moment in Persuasion

Chapter 6

And I will tell you our reason," she added, "and all about it. I am come on to give you notice, that papa and mamma are out of spirits this evening, especially mamma; she is thinking so much of poor Richard!  And we agreed it would be best to have the harp, for it seems to amuse her more than the piano-forte.  I will tell you why she is out of spirits.  When the Crofts called this morning, (they called here afterwards, did not they?), they happened to say, that her brother, Captain Wentworth, is just returned to England, or paid off, or something, and is coming to see them almost directly; and most unluckily it came into mamma's head, when they were gone, that Wentworth, or something very like it, was the name of poor Richard's captain at one time; I do not know when or where, but a great while before he died, poor fellow!  And upon looking over his letters and things, she found it was so, and is perfectly sure that this must be the very man, and her head is quite full of it, and of poor Richard!  So we must be as merry as we can, that she may not be dwelling upon such gloomy things."

Malteser Cake

Recipe adapted from Nigella Lawson’s cookbook ‘ Feast’

Ingredients

For cake

100g sugar

100g brown sugar

4 eggs

175 ml milk

15g butter

175g flour

2 tbsp Ovomaltine/ Horlicks

25g cocoa

1 tsp baking powder

 ½ tsp bicarbonate if soda
2 x 8 inch cake pan

For Frosting:

125g softened butter

250g icing sugar

45g Horlicks

1 tsp cocoa

2 tbsp boiling water

80g of Malteser chocolate

Directions:

1)      Preheat Oven to 170°C & grease  two 10 inch round cake pan.

2)      Beat eggs & sugar till creamy.

3)      In a sauce pan, heat milk, Horlicks powder & butter but do let it boil.  Stir till the butter is melted. Beat  milk mixture into eggs a little at a time till well combined.

      4)  Fold in all dry ingredients till well cooperated. Divide cake batter evenly between two cake
           pan & bake for 25 to 35 minutes. Let to cool.

      5)  For frosting:  Beat Horlicks, icing sugar & cocoa till well blended.  Add in butter & keep on
           whisking .  Pour in boiling water & continuously beating till smooth.

     6)  Spread butter cream on cake & add Malteser chocolate a round the cake before sandwich them
           together.  Topped the cake with some butter cream & decorate with Maltesser chocolate.

Bon Appetit

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