Chocolate salted caramel cookie cake

Bake this show-stopping chocolate cake topped with decadent salted caramel and cookies. Perfect for celebrating a special occasion

  • Prep:40 mins
    Cook:35 mins
    plus chilling
  • Serves 10
  • More effort

Nutrition per serving

  • kcal 803
  • fat 42g
  • saturates 17g
  • carbs 95g
  • sugars 0g
  • fibre 3g
  • protein 8g
  • salt 1g

Ingredients

  • 150ml vegetable oil , plus extra for the tins
  • 200g self-raising flour
  • 50g cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 250g brown sugar
  • 150ml Greek yogurt
  • 50ml milk
  • 100ml strong coffee , cold
  • 2 large eggs
  • 100g white chocolate chips
  • 150g salted butter , softened
  • 300g icing sugar
  • 1 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 50g dark chocolate
  • 200g cookies
  • 4 tbsp salted caramel sauce
  • ½ tbsp milk
  • dark chocolate (optional)

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Oil two 20cm sandwich tins and line the bases with non-stick baking paper. Sieve the flour, cocoa and baking powder into a large bowl, then stir in the sugar. Whisk together the yogurt, milk, coffee and eggs in a jug until combined. Gradually whisk the wet ingredients into the flour mixture until you have a smooth batter. Fold in the chocolate chips.

  2. Divide the mixture between the tins and bake for 30-35 mins, until a skewer inserted into the centre of each sponge comes out clean. Remove from the tins and put on a wire rack to cool completely.

  3. Meanwhile, make the buttercream. Beat together the butter, icing sugar and cocoa for 5-8 mins until smooth and creamy. Melt the dark chocolate in a bowl over a pan of boiling water, or in 30 second blasts in the microwave. Whisk the melted chocolate into the buttercream until fully incorporated. Put three quarters of it into a piping bag with a large, round nozzle.

  4. Put one of the sponges onto a plate and pipe buttercream around its edge, with dots going around the circumference. Spread 2 tbsp of the remaining buttercream in the centre of the cake using a spoon or palette knife.

  5. Mix together the caramel and milk with a pinch of salt. Spread half the caramel into the centre to cover the layer of buttercream. Crumble half of the cookies on top of that. Chill for 30 mins until the buttercream has hardened slightly.

  6. Lay the second sponge on top of the first. Repeat the piping of the dots around the top of the cake, but this time fill the whole circle with dots of buttercream. Drizzle the salted caramel over the buttercream dots. Break the remaining cookies into halves or quarters and arrange on top of the cake, then grate over a little dark chocolate, if you like.

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