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This Cinder Toffee Bonfire Cake is smothered in milk and dark chocolate ganache and topped with honey comb
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5 from 2 votes

Cinder Toffee Bonfire Cake

Celebrate bonfire night with a cinder toffee cake, made with dark chocolate and honeycomb.
Prep Time30 minutes
Cook Time35 minutes
Decorating time30 minutes
Total Time1 hour 35 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: British
Keyword: buttercream, caster sugar, chocolate, cocoa powder, eggs, flour, honeycomb
Servings: 12 people
Calories: 521.33kcal
Author: Emma

Ingredients

For the cake

  • 200 grams caster sugar
  • 200 grams butter
  • 4 large eggs
  • 200 grams self raising flour
  • 50 grams cocoa powder
  • 1 pinch salt

For the decoration

  • 200 millilitres double cream
  • 200 grams milk chocolate broken into cubes
  • 200 grams dark chocolate broken into cubes
  • honey comb broken into shards

Instructions

To bake the cake

  • Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 4 (160 C), and line two 6 inch cake tins with grease proof paper.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together the butter, sugar until soft.
  • Beat in the eggs one at a time until and beat well until the mix is creamy and pale.
  • Sift the cocoa powder, flour and salt into the bowl and fold through until fully incorporated.
  • Pour the cake mix into the two tins and bake for 35-45 mins or until springy to the touch and a skewer comes out clean.
  • Allow to cool in the tins for 10 minutes before turning out on to a cooling rack.

To decorate

  • Once completely cooled, make the ganache by gently heating the cream until it's almost at a simmer.
  • Take it off of the heat and add in all of the chocolate and stir.
  • Keep stirring allowing the heat of the cream to melt the chocolate.
  • If the chocolate stops melting you can heat the mixture over a bain marie or in the microwave no more than 30 seconds at a time.
  • Once smooth and glossy, sandwich the two cakes together with the ganache.
  • Pour half of the ganach over the cake and smooth around the edges.
  • Leave for a minute or two until firm and repeat.
  • Finish by topping with the honeycomb.

Notes

If the ganache looks like it has split add 1 tbsp of milk and mix until smooth and glossy again.

Nutrition

Calories: 521.33kcal | Carbohydrates: 49.48g | Protein: 7.35g | Fat: 34.93g | Saturated Fat: 20.73g | Trans Fat: 0.56g | Cholesterol: 121.17mg | Sodium: 159.45mg | Potassium: 287.17mg | Fiber: 4.52g | Sugar: 29.46g | Vitamin A: 758.33IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 48.17mg | Iron: 3.47mg