Swedish Chocolate Dream Cake

INGREDIENTS

For the cake:

• 300g butter plus extra for greasing
• 210g Dunnes Stores Baking at Home plain flour plus extra for dusting
• 600g caster sugar
• 6 large free-range eggs
• 9 tbsp Dunnes Stores Baking at Home cocoa powder
• 3 tsp vanilla extract
• Icing sugar, to dust

To Serve:

• Dunnes Stores cream, whipped

For the filing:

• 100g butter, softened
• 450g cream cheese
• 320g icing sugar, sifted
• 50g cocoa, sifted

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4. Grease three 23cm cake tins with a removable base, line with a disc of parchment paper and set aside.
2. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Remove from the heat, add the sugar and mix through. Add the eggs and mix well. Add the flour, cocoa and vanilla and mix until combined.
3. Pour into the prepared cake tins and place in the oven for 20 minutes. The cake won't rise dramatically but you should be left with a set top and a slightly gooey middle.
4. If you don't have space in the oven, you can leave one tin set aside while the other two cook. When cooked, allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
5. When the cakes are baking, make the cream cheese frosting. Place the butter and cheese in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat for 4 minutes or until pale and creamy.
6. Add the icing sugar and cocoa and fold through with a spatula until thick and spreadable.
7. To assemble the cake, place one of the cakes on a cake stand and spread with one third of the icing, repeat with the last two layers.