Crunchie Cake

Photo: Art of Baking

The chocolate cake itself is not too rich which allows the buttery icing with crushed Crunchie Bar to shine through. With a pyramid of more golden Crunchie Bars crushed on the top, this cake keeps getting better and better.

There’s a lot of fun in taking your favourite chocolate bar and turning it into a cake. Cake should be fun – as well as delicious, and this Crunchie Cake recipe delivers on both fronts. With so many great chocolate bars in the world, there’s a lot of scope to create great cakes that are inspired by different chocolate bars. Sounds like a fun baking project doesn’t it.

The very creative Art of Baking shares this marvelous Crunchie Cake.

Keen on the idea of cakes based on famous chocolate bars? Well have I got a cake for you. Check out this fantastic Snickers Cake recipe.

Crunchie Cake Recipe

 

Ingredients

For the Cake:

• 9 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1½ cups cake flour (not self-rising)
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ¼ teaspoon baking powder
• 115 g (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1½ cups granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature
• ½ cup water
• ½ cup whole or low-fat milk

For the Butter Icing:

• 125g butter softened
• 1½ cups icing sugar
• 2 tablespoons of milk
• crushed crunchie bars (quantity is up to you)

For the Chocolate Ganache:

• ½ cups (375ml) single or pouring cream
• 340g finely chopped dark chocolate

Instructions

1. For the full recipe go here: Crunchie Cake.

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