horlicks

This crowd-pleasing dessert is made ahead, so all you have to do on the night is take it out of the fridge and bask in the glory

Malt chocolate cheesecake

malted milk biscuit, crushed to crumbs

salted butter, melted

tbsp caster sugar

cheese

pot double cream

white chocolate, melted

bar milk chocolate, melted

tbsp malt or Horlicks powder

bag white Maltesers

Line base and sides of a deep, 22-23cm loose-bottomed round tin with baking parchment. Mix the biscuits, melted butter and 2 tbsp of the sugar, then press into base. Chill while you make the filling.

Divide cream cheese and cream evenly between 2 bowls. Add the white chocolate to one, and the milk chocolate, malt and remaining 3 tbsp sugar to the other. Beat each with an electric whisk until smooth.

Spread the milk chocolate mixture evenly in the tin. Wipe round the edge to give a smooth edge. Spoon the white chocolate mix over the top and gently smooth. Decorate with Maltesers and chill for at least 5 hrs until firm.

All the flavours of a gorgeous mug of malty cocoa, combined into a delicious ice cream

Malt chocolate ice cream

milk

malt powder

milk chocolate

tbsp Irish cream liqueur

pack chocolate coated malt balls, to serve (optional)

Tip the cream and milk into a saucepan, then bring to the boil. Beat the yolks and malt powder together in a bowl, pour over the hot cream, then continue beating until everything is combined. Tip the mixture back into the pan, then cook on a low heat for 3-4 mins, stirring continuously until the consistency of thin custard. Remove from the heat. Stir in the chocolate until melted, stir in the Irish cream liqueur, then chill.

Once the custard has cooled, churn it in an ice-cream machine until frozen. If you don’t have a machine, place the custard in a bowl in the freezer. Freeze until the sides become icy, then beat with a whisk. Repeat the process 3 more times until you have smooth ice cream. Ice cream can now be frozen for up to 2 weeks. Serve in scoops with chocolate coated malt balls crumbled over, if you like.

A show stopping Malteser Cake filled with vanilla butter cream and covered in a trio of Horlicks, chocolate and vanilla buttercreams, then topped off with a cheeky knobbly layer of Maltesers.

Malteser Cake

unsalted butter (softened (US = 1 cup))

g golden caster sugar ((US = ¾ cup))

g soft light brown sugar ((US = ½ cup))

flour

tbsp Horlicks original (or Ovaltine)

cocoa

salt

tsp baking powder

eggs (at room temperature)

vanilla extract

tbsp natural yogurt ((or buttermilk) at room temperature)

unsalted butter (softened (US = 1 cup and 1 tbsp))

sugar

tsp vanilla extract

tbsp Horlicks

tsp milk

dark chocolate (1½ tablespoons)

bag of Maltesers (you will need about 30 Maltesers)

Set your oven to 150°C Fan/170°C/340°F/Gas mark 3

Grease your tins then line the bases with circles of grease proof paper.

Beat together your butter and sugars on medium-high setting until light and fluffy.  This will not take long if you sugar is soft, so make sure you don&#39;t overbeat.

Sift your flour, Horlicks, cocoa, baking powder and salt together and set aside.

Whisk together your eggs, yogurt and vanilla extract.

Add ¼ of your egg mixture along with a heaped desert spoonful of flour mixture to your butter mixture and beat on a low speed until incorporated.

Repeat three more times until your eggs have all be mixed in.

Add the rest of your flour mixture and beat in, starting on a low setting, then pausing to scrape down your bowl to ensure all of the mixture on the base and sides is incorporated.

Then give the mixture a fast beat on medium-high setting for about 15 seconds.

Add equal amounts of your cake batter to each tin and then bake for 30 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

Leave to cool in your tins for 5 minutes on a cooling rack before inverting onto your cooling rack and leaving to cool fully.

Beat your softened butter and vanilla extract until pale and fluffy.

Gradually add your icing sugar, using a spatula work it into your beaten butter or cover the bowl with a clean tea towel to stop it billowing up.  Then beat it in with your hand or stand mixer.

Place the tier you are going to use as your base tier on your lazy Susan (or turntable).

Split your butter cream into 4 equal parts.

Take one portion of your butter cream and spread half of it over the Malteser cake base as a filling.  Place the other tier on top then cover the whole cake with the rest of the butter cream.  Use your palette knife or butter knife to even the butter cream out and then use your cake scraper to level the sides.

Place your cake in your refrigerator to set for 20 minutes.

Mix your Horlicks with your milk until all the lumps have gone.  Mix into one of your remaining lots of butter cream.

Melt your chocolate (you can do this in short 10 second bursts in your microwave).  Mix the chocolate into another of your lots of butter cream.

You will now have one Horlicks butter cream, one chocolate and one vanilla.

Taking your palette knife spread some of your chocolate butter cream over the lower half of the side of your Malteser cake.

Spread some of your Horlicks butter cream over the top side of the cake, making sure it meets or slightly overlaps the chocolate butter cream.

Cover the top of the cake with some chocolate butter cream.

Take your cake scraper and run it around the cake to great a smooth surface.

Take your Wilton fill 3 colour swirl piping bags and pipe swirls around the edge of the cake.

Pipe stars around the the base.

Fill the centre of the cake with Maltesers.

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