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Cinder Toffee Bonfire Cake
Celebrate bonfire night with a cinder toffee cake, made with dark chocolate and honeycomb.
Prep Time
30
minutes
mins
Cook Time
35
minutes
mins
Decorating time
30
minutes
mins
Total Time
1
hour
hr
35
minutes
mins
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
British
Keyword:
buttercream, caster sugar, chocolate, cocoa powder, eggs, flour, honeycomb
Servings:
12
people
Calories:
521.33
kcal
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
US Customary
-
Metric
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 tablespoon of milk and mix until smooth and glossy again.
Nutrition
Calories:
521.33
kcal
|
Carbohydrates:
49.48
g
|
Protein:
7.35
g
|
Fat:
34.93
g
|
Saturated Fat:
20.73
g
|
Trans Fat:
0.56
g
|
Cholesterol:
121.17
mg
|
Sodium:
159.45
mg
|
Potassium:
287.17
mg
|
Fiber:
4.52
g
|
Sugar:
29.46
g
|
Vitamin A:
758.33
IU
|
Vitamin C:
0.1
mg
|
Calcium:
48.17
mg
|
Iron:
3.47
mg