RecipesSalted caramel fudge cake
This ultra-indulgent cake is packed with dried fruit and chunks of sweet fudge, then topped with a luscious salted caramel butter icing
This ultra-indulgent cake is packed with dried fruit and chunks of sweet fudge, then topped with a luscious salted caramel butter icing
By Asda Good Living,27th October 2020
Cook: 4 Hours 35 Mins
Serves: 24
Price: 59p per serving
Nutritional Information
Each 88g serving contains
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
1402kj/335kcal
Ingredients
250g chopped dried apricots
200g ready chopped dates
300g sultanas
100ml brandy (or cold tea) for soaking, plus 6tbsp brandy for ‘feeding’ the cake later (optional)
200g unsalted butter, softened
200g dark soft brown sugar
4 large eggs
215g plain flour
75g pecans, chopped
150g Asda Fudge Chunks (from the home baking aisle)
75g apricot jam
100g unsalted butter, softened
1tsp Asda Salted Caramel Flavouring
200g icing sugar, sifted
½ x 150g box Extra Special Handmade Salted Caramel Fudge, roughly chopped
½ x 250g jar The Mercers of Yorkshire Salted Caramel Sauce
Method
1Put the apricots, dates and sultanas in a bowl and add the brandy (or cold tea, if using). Stir to mix together, then cover and set aside to soak for 24 hrs.
2Preheat the oven to 150C/130C Fan/Gas 2. Line a 20cm round cake tin with 3 layers of baking paper.
3Put the butter and soft brown sugar in a bowl and beat together until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs,1 at a time, adding a rounded tablespoon of the flour with each of the last 2 eggs.
4Fold in the rest of the flour, the pecans and fudge chunks, then the soaked dried fruits and any unabsorbed soaking liquid.
5Put into the lined cake tin and level the top. Dampen your fingertips and pat all over the top of the mixture–this helps prevent it becoming too hard when cooking. Bake in the oven for 1 hr.
6Reduce the oven temperature to 140C/120C Fan/Gas 1 and bake the cake for another 2-3 hrs or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Start testing the cake after 1 hr, as ovens can vary.
7Remove the cake from the tin (keeping the lining paper on) and set aside to cool on a wire rack. When completely cold, discard the paper and wrap the cake in fresh baking paper, then foil. Store in an airtight container.
8If you want to ‘feed’ the cake with brandy, start a week after it has been stored. Unwrap the cake, pierce in several places with a skewer and drizzle over 2tbsp of the ‘feeding’ brandy. Rewrap in the baking paper and foil and store as before. Repeat every week until you’ve used all the brandy.
9To decorate, melt the apricot jam in a small pan and brush over the top of the cake.
10Beat the butter and salted caramel flavouring together until soft. Stir in the icing sugar until completely combined. Beat with an electric mixer until the mixture is light and fluffy. Spread over the top of the cake.
11To serve, arrange the chopped caramel fudge in the centre of the cake and drizzle over the salted caramel sauce.