Malted Milk Ball Cake

Here it is all; my very first recipe post!

As I said before I made this cake for my Mom's birthday. My fiance and I are heading to my parents place later this afternoon to celebrate the birthday and my fiance taking her NCLEX test to become an RN! Wish her luck!

The Finished Product

Om Nom Nom...

Anyhow, after my failure the other day I did a little re-planning and rewriting and came up with a finished product. Baaaaaam!

Well now comes the recipe I suppose. Uh, first I should go over how I'm doing this whole recipe thing; it's a little different than a lot of other places. I'll list the recipe here in the post, but if you don't want to read my post -ndb- I'm including a link to a page that JUST has the recipe. Along with allowing you to avoid my, super-mega-awesome, posts, it will also be a good resource if you need to come back to it.

Here it is: Malted Milk Ball Cake Recipe

Malted Milk Cake

INGREDIENTS:

·         Boxed chocolate fudge cake mix (Betty Crocker® Chocolate Fudge)

o   1 ¼ cups water

o   ½ cup vegetable/canola oil

o   3 eggs

·         Malted chocolate frosting

o   ½ cup butter (1 stick), room temp

o   ¼ cup vegetable shortening

o   3 1/2 cup powdered sugar

o   ½  cup milk

o   6 oz bitter sweet chocolate chips

o   ¾ tsp. baking soda

o   1 ½ cups malt powder

o   2 tsp. vanilla extract

·         Malted Milk Balls (Whoppers®)

DIRECTIONS:

Cake

Dah Cakes

1. Preheat oven to appropriate temperature according to your boxes directions for two 9” pans
2. Grease pans with cooking spray
3. Line with parchment circles cut to fit snuggly in pans
4. Prepare batter according to box directions
5. After pouring batter into pans grease two more parchment circles and place them, greased side down, onto the batter
6. Bake cake mix according to your boxes directions
7. Allow cakes to cool for 5-10 minutes before removing them to a cooling rack to cool completely, approx. 2 hours
8. Level off the tops of each cake with a long serrated knife

Step 8: Pre-haircut

Step 8: Post-haircut

Frosting

Step 4: Fudgy goodness; Yum!

1. Combine milk and malt powder in 2 q. saucepan and stir to dissolve
2. Heat mixture over medium heat until boiling
3. Remove pan from heat and mix in chocolate, baking soda, and vanilla; stirring until smooth
4. Allow fudge mixture to cool to room temperature; then add to bowl of stand mixer
5. Add butter, shortening
6. Sift in powdered sugar
7. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy, avoid beating too long or butter will melt; If need be place frosting in fridge for 10-15 minutes to firm it back up
8. Beat for 15-20 seconds before frosting if taking the frosting from the fridge

Step 8: Frosting, post-fridge whip-up

Assembly:

1.    Place one cake on a 10” cardboard cake round along with a teaspoon of frosting in the center and placing 4-5 strips of parchment underneath to catch any extra frosting

2.    Add 1/3 of frosting to the cake and smooth into an even layer leaving about a 1” border around the edge

Step 2: FROSTING!

3.    Place the second cake on top of the first and push down lightly until the frosting layer just reaches the edges of the cakes

4.    Place the cake in the fridge for 20-30 minutes to harden the middle layer

5.    Place remaining frosting on top of the second cake and frost the cake by spreading the frosting over the edges of the cake

6.    Smooth the surface of the cake until perfect

Step 6: Before

Step 6:  Juuust started

Step 6: Almost done...!

7.    Cover the top and sides of the cake with the malted milk balls

    8.    Try not to devour the entire thing in one sitting (Ha! Good luck!)

Step 8: Cha-right!

Alright; finished my first recipe post! That wasn't as time consuming as I thought. Which is to say, the delay was 50% having to wait until the celebration was held and the cake eaten and 50% laaaaaazy.

Oh well, it's done; it was incredibly fun; and I have a million more ideas to try!

(Plus, I finished the chili recipe and tested it again today so, barring any gigantic homework assignments, that post should be coming within the next few days!)

Have a great day, ya'll!

Word,

-The Fumbling Gourmet