CHOCOLATE MALT CAKE RECIPE

Recipe Credits: Maham Alvi

Posted by - Nadia Naziri

The cake is super soft, moist, incredibly chocolaty and the frosting is so delicious and absolutely heavenly and very rich in flavour.

The ingredients list has got some unusuals like sour cream, cream cheese, malt etc. so a trip to supermarket is must to check and get all that is needed. The cake is not so laborious to make and does not involve endless beatings of egg, sugar, butter etc but more of combining ingredients together.

For baking time always use the toothpick method to make sure cake is ready when toothpick comes out clean. 😊

Ingredients :

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup milk

1 cup Chocolate horlicks Or Ovaltine Or Milo or any malted milk powder

1 cup vegetable oil

3 large eggs

1 cup sour cream

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Chocolate Malt Frosting

1 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

3/4 cup heavy whipping cream OR tetra pack cream

1/2 cup malted milk powder

3 cups icing' sugar

4-5 tbsp cream cheese .

Preheat oven to 180c. Grease and flour 2 (9-inch) cake pans.

1. In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.

2. In a small bowl, combine milk and malted milk powder, stirring to dissolve.

3. Add milk mixture, oil, and eggs to flour mixture, beating at medium speed until smooth.

4. Add sour cream and vanilla, beating just until combined. Pour batter evenly into prepared pans, and bake for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove cakes from pans and let cool completely on wire racks.

To make the frosting:

1. In a large bowl, beat butter and cocoa powder at medium speed with a mixer until creamy.

2. Combine cream and malted milk powder, Add cream mixture to butter mixture, beating at low speed to combine.

3. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar and cream cheese until smooth.

4. Spread the frosting between layers and cover and decorate as you like 😊