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Dario’s Chocolate Surprise-Cake

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Dario’s Chocolate Surprise Cake is a cake with a sweet inside!

This is going to be a long post… mainly because of all the pictures! It was my godchild’s birthday and of course I had to bake a cake for the occasion – I couldn’t pass up the opportunity! I spent a long time wondering whether to make the usual three-layer cake or a normal chocolate cake.

No! It had to be something special! After all, it’s not every day that my godchild has a birthday, and I’m not here in Europe every year for his birthday. I had so much fun making this cake, with a surprise inside, and then seeing my godchild’s reaction when we cut it. It was truly wonderful!!!!

I used a recipe from the Amadeus Cake from Rosalilla from Chefkoch and slightly adapted. I highly recommend it—the cake is wonderfully fresh and moist thanks to the vanilla pudding filling. Simply yummy and not heavy like a buttercream filling!!!

I covered them with chocolate icing and decorated them with pralines and little marshmallows. As a surprise, I filled them with Smarties! They spilled out when I cut them open! Delicious!!!

Prep time

1 h 15 min

Cooking time

30 min

Rest time

1 Day

Portions

Total time

1 Day 1 h 45 min

Ingrecients

Amadeus Cake

250 g soft Butter
250 g Sugar
150 g Milk Chocolate Drops
6 Eggs
100 g Cornstarch
200 g Flour
2 level tsp Baking Powder
1 Pack Vanilla Pudding/Custard Powder
500 ml Milk
750 ml Cream
4 tsp Vanilla Sugar

For Dekoration and Filling

100 g dark Chocolate
Pralines
150 g Smarties
small chocolate-covered Marshmallow treat

Instructions

Step 1

Make a pudding with the milk, 2 tablespoons of sugar, and the pudding powder. It should be thick. Cover with plastic wrap and let cool.

Step 2

Cream the butter and sugar together, then add the chocolate chips alternately with the eggs. Mix the flour with the baking powder and starch and stir into the mixture. Bake 3 bases/24 cm diameter from this dough and leave to cool individually.

Step 3

Bake in the oven at 190°C for approx. 10-15 minutes.

Step 4

For the filling, stir the now cold pudding with a mixer. Whip the cream until stiff and add the vanilla sugar. Fold in the cream.

Step 5

Spread the first layer of the cake with plenty of vanilla filling. Place the second layer on top.

Step 6

Place a glass with a diameter of approx. 10 cm on top of the cake and cut straight down around it with a sharp knife. Carefully lift this round piece out of the cake. Now fill this hole with lots of colorful Smarties. Spread another thick layer of vanilla filling on the cake, but please don’t cover the Smarties, otherwise they will go soft! Place the third layer of the cake on top.

Step 7

Spread the rest of the vanilla cream on the side of the cake. Melt the chocolate glaze and pour it over the cake, smooth it out, and decorate the cake with chocolates, marshmallows, and Smarties. They will stick to the hardening glaze by themselves.