Chocolate box cakes
A fun baking project for Valentine's Day. Bite sized cakes which are personalised with your favourite chocolates.
Ingredients
For the cakes
- 225g of self-raising flour
- 225g of caster sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 40g of cocoa powder
- 115g of butter
- 3 eggs
- 150ml of whole milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Buttercream
- 75g of butter , softened
- 3 tbsp of cocoa powder
- 200g of icing sugar
- 3 tbsp of milk, mixed with 1 tsp vanilla extract
To decorate
- 12 chocolates , of your choice
Method
1
Heat oven to 180ºC/gas mark 4. Grease 12 x muffin or individual Victoria sandwich tins
2
Mix the flour, sugar, salt and cocoa together. Rub the butter into the flour mixture. Beat the eggs with the milk
3
Stir in the egg and milk mixture with the vanilla extract into the dry ingredients and beat well
4
Spoon the mixture into the prepared tins and bake for about 22 to 25 minutes until well risen. Allow them to cool before cutting the cakes in half
5
To make the buttercream, add the softened butter to the cocoa and then stir in the icing sugar, milk and vanilla extract. Beat until smooth and thick
6
Sandwich the cakes with buttercream in the middle and spread some buttercream on top. Decorate each cake with a chocolate from a box of chocolates
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