Chocolate Cake Daleks

Extermi-CAKE! Extermi-CAKE!

Thought these guys were due a regeneration, so here’s all the ingredients, quantities and timings you’ll need to make my Chocolate Cake Daleks. For full construction instructions check out the making video on my socials which I’ve treated as a simultaneous audition tape for Blue Peter presenter and the Doctor’s companion.

Makes 2 Daleks.

INGREDIENTS:

Decoration

Maltesers - at least 18 (but allow extra for eating)

Mint Aero Bubbles (balls) - at least 2 (but allow extra for eating)

Mikado sticks or similar - at least 6 (but allow extra for eating)

Tunnocks Teacakes - at least 2 (but allow extra for eating)

Chocolate digestives, or other appropriately sized biscuit - at least 2 (but allow extra for eating)

Mini Marshmallows - at least 4 (but allow extra for eating)

Chocolate Sprinkles - 1 tsp (surely no one just eats those for fun???)

Cake

1/2 tsp coffee powder

2 tbsp boiling water

50g soft salted butter

1 large egg

50g white granulated sugar

65g plain flour (for gluten free use 75g self raising mix and no baking powder)

1/2 tsp baking powder

10g cocoa

Ganache

200g milk chocolate

130g double cream

Filling

100g of double cream

2 heaped teaspoons of cherry jam

HOW TO:

Cake

• Butter and dust with cocoa powder two cardboard 200ml takeaway coffee cups.

**DON’T BAKE IN A CUP THAT ISN’T DESIGNED FOR HOT LIQUIDS - MILKSHAKE OR SOFT DRINK CUPS WILL COLLAPSE IN THE OVEN**

• Add 2 tbsp of boiling water to 1/2 a teaspoon of coffee powder in a small jug or cup and set aside for later.

• Add all other cake ingredients to a mixing bowl and beat, stop as soon as everything is just combined.

• Pour the warm coffee into the batter and fold through.

• When the batter is smooth, divide it between the coffee cups, place the coffee cups in a cake tin for stability and bake at 160ºc for 27 minutes.

• The cakes are cooked when a skewer comes out clean, leave them to cool completely in their cups.

Ganache

• Break the chocolate into a heatproof bowl.

• Heat the cream to just steaming and pour over the chocolate.

• Leave for 5 minutes and then stir the cream and chocolate together until fully mixed and melted.

• Leave the ganache to chill so it firms to a spreadable peanut butter / chocolate spread consistency. You can put it in the fridge but if gets too solid to spread heat it briefly in the microwave until it loosens again. When you’re happy with the consistency you can cover your daleks with it.

Filling

• Very lightly whip the cream until it’s really just a bit frothy, it will thicken further when the jam is added.

• Add your jam of choice and fold through the cream. Put the filling in a piping bag and use.

Enjoy,

Davros x