I’m not quite sure why this is actually called a “traybake” because there is no baking involved!

You will need…

100g butter
200g milk chocolate
3 tblspns golden syrup
225g digestive biscuits, crushed finely
225g Maltesers

Malteser Traybake Ingredients

First you need to break the chocolate up into a bowl, add the butter and the syrup and melt either in the microwave or over a pan of boiling water.

Malteser Tray Bake - Melting

Crush up the digestive biscuits.

Malteser Traybake - Crushing

Add the maltesers to the crushed digestives.

Malteser Traybake - Maltesers

Add the melted chocolate mix to the digestives and Maltesers.

Malteser Traybake - Mix Together

Mix it all together quickly, before it starts to set.

Malteser Traybake - Mixed

Put the mixture into a square tin and chill until it sets.

Malteser Traybake - Chill

Cut up into squares and enjoy!

Malteser Traybake - Done

Malteser Traybake - Done

Yet another easy to make cake!

This is a very dense, moist and delicious white chocolate cake – one of my favourites and perfect for Chocolate Week!

Ingredients

For the cake:
310g plain flour
5g baking soda
2g baking powder
3g salt
170g white chocolate, chopped
120ml hot water
225g butter, softened
300g caster sugar
3 eggs
235ml buttermilk

For the icing:
200g white chocolate, chopped
20g plain flour
235ml milk
225g butter, softened
200g caster sugar
5ml vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350F/175C/Gas Mark 4.
2. Grease two 9inch round cake tins.
3. In a bowl sieve together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and the salt.
4. In a small pan mix together the white chocolate and hot water over a low heat until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth, leave to cool to room temperature.
5. In a bowl mix together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
6. Add eggs one at a time beating well.
7. Stir in the flour mixture and buttermilk alternately.
8. Mix in the melted chocolate.
9. Put the cake batter into the cake tins and bake for approximately 30 minutes.
10. Use a fork to see if the cake is cooked, if it comes out clean then it’s ready, if it has some batter on it, cook it for a little longer.
11. When cooked take out of the tins and cool on a wire rack.
12. For the icing, in a pan, add the chocolate, flour and milk and melt over a medium heat, stirring constantly, until it is thick and creamy. Allow to cool completely.
13. In a bowl mix together the butter, sugar and vanilla extract until light and fluffy.
14. Mix in the white chocolate mixture and beat until it’s thick and creamy.
15. Spread  between the two layers of cake and over the top and sides of the cake.

There you have it, your delicious, white chocolate cake. Enjoy!

For this wonderful recipe, I recommend a good dark chocolate with at least 70% cocoa solids because it gives a more chocolatey, fuller flavour to the chocolate cake. Green & Blacks chocolate is my favourite for this chocolate cake recipe.
Serves: 10
Takes: 50 mins, plus time to cool down

Ingredients:
For the chocolate cake:
200g Green & Blacks dark chocolate, broken into small pieces
200g light muscovado sugar
140g butter, softened
5 eggs, separated
100g plain flour
1tsp baking powder

For the chocolate cake icing:
250ml double cream
55g marshmallows
250g Green & Blacks dark chocolate, chopped

Directions:

1. Heat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4.
2. Line a 20cm loose based cake tin with greaseproof paper.
3. Boil a pan of water and turn the heat down to a simmer.
4. Put the chocolate pieces into a bowl and melt it over the pan of simmering water.
5. When all the chocolate has melted, put it to one side to cool a little.
6. In a large bowl beat sugar and butter together until light and fluffy.
7. Add the egg yolks one at a time and beat them well as you add them.
8. Gently fold in the flour and baking powder, then stir in the melted chocolate.
9. In a separate bowl whisk together the egg whites until they form peaks.
10. Fold the egg whites gently into the chocolate cake mixture.
11. Tip the finished cake mixture into your ready prepared cake tin.
12. Bake in the oven for about 35 minutes.
13. Check it’s ready with a skewer, if it comes out of the cake clean then it’s ready, if not then bake for a little longer.
14. Cool on a wire rack.

For the icing, heat together the cream and marshmallows until the cream is just boiling and all the marshmallows have melted into the cream, you must stir the icing all the time.
Add the chopped chocolate to the mixture and stir until it’s smooth and creamy.
Chop your cooled chocolate cake in half horizontally and spread over a little of the icing. Sandwich together and then spread the rest of the icing over the top of your cake.
Now enjoy!

Chocolate Cake Recipe was originally a one page site for my all time favourite chocolate cake recipe.

Then along came Chocolate Cake Recipe – The Blog!

This is where I intend to try lots of new and old chocolate cake recipes to see if any of them can beat my favourite. Hopefully, along the way, I will meet some like-minded people who will read, comment and share their opinions (and recipes too).

I look forward to my mission – hope you will join me!