Chocolate Christmas Pudding Cake

Hi Guys,

There's been a lot of amazing Malteser covered cakes going around recently and they've all looked delicious! So I thought why not give it a go myself and make a Christmas Pudding I'll actually love this Christmas. Plus you can add anything you like into the cake mix and make each one different, so for this one I've gone for a Chocolate Orange recipe. 

For the cake you will need...

100g Softened Unsalted Butter 

50g Good Cocoa Powder  -

90ml Boiling Water -

3 Large Eggs -

4 Tbsp Milk

175g Sifted Self Raising Flour -

1 Sifted Rounded Tsp Baking Powder

300g Golden Caster Sugar 

Finely Grated Zest of 1 Orange

For the Decoration you will need...
400g of Maltesers
Chocolate Icing
White Chocolate Chips
Icing tubes in Green and Red

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC/fan160°C/gas 4. You'll then need to grease a domed tin. I then mixed the hot water and cocoa powder together, so that it made a paste, then adding it to all the other ingredients. Minus the icing and Maltesers of course. Beating it until its smooth and ready to be poured into the tin. 
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3. 2.I then baked the sponge for around 20-25 minutes, once cooled I popped it out of the tin and placed onto a wire rack. Once completely cooled I cut it into two and iced the middle, followed by applying a generous amount of icing all over the cake. I did kinda cheat at this part and used the Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge icing, just so its that bit quicker. 
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5. 3. Then you can go nuts and cover the entire thing in Maltesers, finished with a good helping of melted white chocolate chips on top too. Then to pull it together so that it looks that bit more like a Christmas pudding, just pipe on a few little leaves and some berries too!

Now I'm off to dig into this! 

Eloise x