Recipe: Soreen Layer Cake
I have waited until the weekend to start testing them out as it’s been a busy old week, but it turns out I waited a bit too long… The lunchbox loaves were all gone. That’s OK I guess, The Boy is the real banana fan in this house and I would guess that what was left is nothing if not a positive review. He seems to have snacked his way through them in record time.
Signs of a Soreen Snaffler |
So instead I flicked through the recipe book and found something that took my fancy – the Soreen Layer Cake. I decided to pimp the recipe a little, adding amaretti biscuits in to the biscuit base and using the Soreen chocolate malt loaf instead of the banana loaf as per the recipe, for that extra chocolatey hit!
I also used a flan tin that was somewhat too big, and didn’t have enough icing sugar and so made a little less buttercream, but it all seemed to work out in the end, so there are no complaints for me. That’s the great thing about this recipe, that you can adapt it to what you have in the cupboard. This is roughly the recipe I ended up with…. (If you want the proper recipe, you’ll just have to get the proper book from Soreen!)Soreen Layer Cake
Ingredients
- 175g digestive and amaretti biscuits
- one packet of custard mix
- one loaf of Soreen chocolate
- 100g butter
- 100g icing sugar
- 60g cocoa
- couple of drops vanilla extract or essence
Method
- Bash up the biscuits into rough crumbs and sprinkle over the base of a flan tray
- Make up the custard as per the packet instructions and pour over the biscuits
- Clear a big space, then put into the fridge to set
- Once set, cut the Soreen chocolate loaf into 1cm slices and create a layer of it on top of your custardy biscuit
- Mix up the butter, icing sugar, cocoa and vanilla to create a thick buttercream and spread evenly over the Soreen
- I added hundred and thousands to decorate, because I’ve got class when it comes to food presentation
- Chill a little longer