Special Malteser Cake

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This cake started life as about three different recipes that all got jumbled together for my mum's birthday a couple of weeks ago, and it worked so wonderfully well that I figured I should let other people in on the nomminess. It's a chocolate sponge base with crushed Maltesers for added crunch, topped and filled with chocolate fudge buttercream.


Ingredients
Cake:
150g soft brown sugar
100g white sugar
3 large eggs
175ml milk
15g margarine
4 tbsp hot chocolate powder (I used Whittard's Dreamtime flavour, but I don't suppose it would matter if you used regular hot chocolate.)
175g self-raising flour
120g crushed Maltesers

Filling/Topping:
200g sifted icing sugar
50g margarine
75g plain chocolate (melted)
1tsp vanilla essence
20ml milk

Recipe
To make cake:

• Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 3/170C/340F and prepare two 7" sandwich cake tins.
• Whisk sugar and eggs until light and frothy.
• Heat milk, butter and hot chocolate on the stove until the butter has melted and the mixture is hot but not boiling.
• Beat milk mixture into the eggs a little at a time and fold in the dry ingredients.
• Divide cake batter between the two tins and bake in the oven until done.
• Cool for 5-10 minutes, then turn them out of their tins.

To make chocolate fudge:

• Beat margarine until soft.
• Stir in icing sugar and beat or whisk.
• Add 50g melted chocolate, vanilla essence and milk.
• Sandwich the two cakes using the chocolate fudge.
• Marble some fudge with remaining dark chocolate on top of the cake.

As an added bonus, you could decorate with more Maltesers on top, set into the chocolate fudge sauce.

Afraid I don't have any pictures - it got eaten too fast!

ETA: if you can't get Maltesers, you can substitute them with any kind of chocolate covered malted biscuit. Brands I know of are Necco Mighty Malts and Hershey's Whoppers :-)