Chocolate Malted Cake

Name: Chocolate Malted Cake
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 1 cup, malted milk powder; 1/3 cup, heavy cream; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 24 tablespoons (3 sticks), unsalted butter, softened; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 3 cups (12 ounces), confectioners' sugar; 6 ounces, milk chocolate, melted and cooled; 2 (5-ounce) boxes malted, milk balls; 3 (8-inch), Chocolate Layer Cake rounds

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2017

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Cakes

To get that nostalgic ice cream parlor flavor in every bite, we added malted milk powder to the chocolate frosting and sprinkled crushed malted milk balls between the cake layers.

SERVES12

TIME40 mins

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Blooming the cocoa powder in boiling water and adding instant espresso powder to the batter produces deep chocolate flavor. Sour cream adds moisture and tang. Malted milk powder mixed into chocolate frosting gives this three-layer cake the ...

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