Chocolate Loaf Cake with Maltesers

If you have a school or office bake sale to bake for, what better than a chocolate loaf cake with Maltesers? This cake is a rich chocolate loaf with Maltesers inside the cake adding a bit of crunch, and covering the top too. 

Strawberry pieces add a flash of colour and a lovely fresh contrast in flavour and texture to the chocolate dripping off the cake.

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Ideal for Christmas, Easter, Red Nose Day or even just a special treat, you’ll be popular when you serve up this rich chocolate cake with that fun topping.

It is so easy to make in a loaf tin and even easier to slice and eat, plus there is no tricky decorating needed so the kids will love getting stuck in making this with you too.

Loaf cakes are perfect when you don’t want a whole round celebration-sized cake but still want a slice or too for packed lunches or just as a treat. 

Decoration

Cover the top in Maltesers, as many as you like, and find the melted Maltesers inside the cake adding their malty flavour, like little jewels.

The soft chocolate loaf cake goes so well with the crunch of the chocolate covering and of course the Maltesers!

Ingredients

Heres what you will need to make this Malteser chocolate loaf cake. Get the exact measurements in the recipe card further down the page.

• butter – unsalted preferably
• caster sugar – or if you don’t have any you can whizz up granulated briefly in a power blender to make your own caster sugar
• eggs – medium
• flour – self-raising – or if you don’t have any you can use plain flour and add an extra 1.5 tsp of baking powder to convert it.
• baking powder
• vanilla extract
• milk
• cocoa powder – don’t switch this for hot chocolate powder used to make instant drinks, it needs to be cocoa powder for the full colour and flavour.
• Maltesers
• chocolate to cover the cake
• freeze-dried strawberry pieces – to decorate – optional

Equipment

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• loaf tin liners are useful if you don’t have any baking paper, and much easier to line your tin with, less faff!
• loaf tin – make sure you use a non-stick one as they are so easy to clean
• a hand mixer is useful to mix this up quickly

Step by step

1. Preheat your oven to 170°C (fan). Line a 900 g/1 lb loaf tin with baking paper.
2. Cream the butter and caster sugar together until light and fluffy (I use a hand mixer).
3. Add the eggs one at a time and beat well after each one.
4. Add the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, vanilla extract and milk. Mix until well combined and smooth.
5. Add the Maltesers and then spoon the mixture into the lined loaf tin.
6. Bake for 1 hour ten mins approx until firm in the centre when tested with a cake tester or skewer.
7. Leave to cool completely on a rack.
8. Melt the chocolate and then spread/pour it over the cake.
9. Top with the freeze-dried strawberry pieces and more Maltesers.
10. Serve and enjoy!

This cake is bound to sell well at your bake sale, why not charge per slice to make as much as you can for your charity or school!  

Variations

• Instead of melting chocolate to top this loaf cake you could cover it with chocolate buttercream.
• Swap Maltesers for your favourite chocolate treat – chopped Mars Bars, Bounty bars, Mint Aero bubbles, Terry’s Chocolate Orange segments, whatever you fancy!

Tips

This cake will keep its moisture for about 4 days if wrapped in baking parchment, or in a sealed container at room temperature.

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