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Amarula, Chocolate & Caramel Cake

Chocolate cake with amarula infused buttercream and a caramel drip
Course Dessert
Cuisine European
Keyword Cake
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings 14 slices
Author thebakingexplorer

Ingredients

For the sponge

  • 120 g Cocoa powder
  • 250 ml Boiling water
  • 6 Eggs large
  • 440 g Caster sugar
  • 120 ml Vegetable Oil
  • 500 g Self raising flour
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • A pinch of Salt
  • 5 tbsp Amarula

For the buttercream

  • 4 tbsp Amarula
  • 900 g Icing sugar
  • 450 g Baking spread

For decoration

  • 150 g Caramel sauce good quality shop bought or homemade
  • 200 ml Double cream
  • 3 tbsp Amarula
  • 2 tbsp Icing sugar
  • Sprinkles of your choice

Instructions

  • Mix the cocoa powder with the boiling water and leave to cool
  • In a large mixing bowl, use an electric or hand whisk to mix the eggs, caster sugar and vegetable oil until frothy. Then, add the cocoa powder mixture and whisk it in
  • Gently fold in the self raising flour, baking powder, salt and 2 tbsp of the Amarula
  • Separate the mixture into three greased and lined 22cm cake tins and bake on 180C/160C Fan/350F/Gas Mark 4 for 25 minutes (check they are done by inserting a skewer or thin knife into the centre, it should come out clean). Remove from the tins and leave them on cooling racks to cool completely
  • To make the buttercream mix together the baking spread, Amarula and icing sugar until smooth
  • Stack up the sponges, drizzling 1 tbsp Amarula on each sponge before spreading them with some of the buttercream
  • Cover the cake in a base coat of buttercream and put it in the fridge for 1 hour to set
  • Cover the cake with the rest of the buttercream and smooth it out as best you can using a palette knife or scraper
  • Put the caramel sauce into a piping bag and carefully pipe blobs on the edge of the cake so it drips down. Then cover the whole top of the cake with a thin layer of the caramel
  • Whip up the double cream along with the Amarula and the icing sugar, pipe it around the edges of the cake
  • Add sprinkles in the centre of the cake, and chocolate decorations as desired

Notes

If you need a caramel sauce recipe, try my Homemade Caramel Sauce.