Food & Drinks

For when you don't make New Year's resolutions

Or if you've already set them aside

So, girlfriends. We're already halfway through the month, the January month in which you were going to improve your life. In which you intended to live healthier, stop snacking, exercise more and put the bottle of wine aside for a while. Succeeded? Then you can click away now. Are all your good intentions already one big fail? Then we might as well get right to it. I have something delicious for you. Something that's too good to not make for yourself. Cake. Chocolate cake. With Maltesers. You know, those little crunchy chocolate balls that are mostly made of air. A red bag that you dump into your mouth in one go at the cinema. Go ahead and preheat the oven, it won't get any better than this. Come on, get into that kitchen.

Double chocolate Malteser cake

For the cake

  • 125 grams of hazelnuts
  • 150 grams of butter
  • 225 grams of light brown sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 100 ml of milk
  • 200 grams of self-raising flour

For the filling

  • 350 ml of whipped cream
  • 100 grams of finely chopped dark chocolate
  • 4 tablespoons of sugar

For the decoration

  • 250 grams of Maltesers
  • 150 grams of dark chocolate
  • 150 grams of whipped cream
  1. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees. Line the bottom of the springform with baking paper and grease the edges.
  2. Grind the hazelnuts into flour in a blender.
  3. Beat the butter with the sugar until fluffy using a mixer.
  4. Add the eggs one by one.
  5. Heat the milk until lukewarm.
  6. Stir the hazelnut flour and the milk into the batter.
  7. Sift the flour over the bowl and fold it in.
  8. Spoon the batter into the form and bake the cake for about one hour until done.
  9. Let the cake cool completely and then cut it into three layers.
  10. Whip the cream for the filling and flavor it with sugar.
  11. Chop the chocolate finely and fold it into the whipped cream.
  12. Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie and stir it into the whipped cream.
  13. For the decoration, start with a layer of cake. Spread a layer of whipped cream over the cake and then place another layer of cake on top and repeat.
  14. At the end, spread the chocolate ganache around the cake with a spatula and distribute the Maltesers over the cake.