Chocolate Malteser Fudge Cake

I've tried this yummylicious Fudge Cake many years back, and my family loves it very much.  It's so fudgy and chocolaty yet not so sweet, which is something that we all enjoys munching yet not having to worry so much about it!!  Though I've attempted it several times over the years, but I did not get to post it in my blog... funny though hehe.  Recently, my craze for it makes a come back and I've decided to capture it in my blog. Though it is a late post, guess it's better than not posting it at all, as the phrase says 'better late than never'....

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Ingredients:
For the cake
50g cocoa powder (sifted)
6 tbsp boiling water
3 large eggs
50ml milk
175g self raising flour (sifted)
1 tsp baking powder (sifted)
100g softened unsalted butter
250g caster sugar

For the icing
150g plain chocolate
150ml whipping cream
Maltesers, crushed
M&M Chocolate Milk Candies

Methods:

1. Blend cocoa powder and boiling water in a mixing bowl, then add the remaining cake ingredients and beat until the mixture has become a smooth, thickish batter.
2. Pour the mixture into a lined 8" cake tin.
3. Bake in a preheated oven of 180 degree Celsius for about 45-50 mins. until well risen and the top of the cake spring back when lightly pressed with a finger or when a wooden skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.  Leave to cool in the tin for a few minutes, then turn out, peel off the parchment and finish cooling on a wire rack. 
4. To make the icing, break the chocolate into pieces and gently heat with the cream in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water until the chocolate has melted, stirring occasionally.  
5. Remove the bowl from the heat and stir the chocolate mixture to make sure it has completely melted.  Leave to cool until it is on the point of setting.
6. To assemble, spread the chocolate mixture over the top and letting it flows to the sides.  Sprinkle crushed maltesers over the middle of the cake and arrange the M & M chocolate  milk candies surrounding it.  
7. When done with the decorating, I place the cake into the fridge until ready to serve.
8. A piece of Chocolate Malteser Fudge Cake ready to serve....

Few years back, I bake one using a smaller cake tin as a surprise birthday cake for my daughter Karen who flew back just before her birthday...

My latest bake is with my daughter, when she is back home for a short holiday recently.  With some leftover of M & M Chocolate Milk candies we decided to bake another one for our family to enjoy....

I adapted this recipe from Diana Gale of 'Domestic Goddess Wannabe,' with some amendments to suit our family's liking.