Chocolate Caramel Poke Cake

Ingredients:Chocolate Cake

All-purpose Flour – 220g

Cocoa Powder – 80g

Baking Soda – 2 tsp

Salt – ½ tsp

Sugar – 300g

Eggs – 2

Melted Butter – 100g

Fresh Milk – 240ml

Vanilla – 2tsp

Hot Water – 100ml

Ingredients:For Filling

Condensed Milk – 397g

Ingredients:Caramel Sauce

Sugar – 100g

Hot Water – 30ml

Whipping Cream – 60ml

Salted Butter – 1 tbsp

Vanilla – 1 tsp

Ingredients:Caramel Whipping Cream

Whipping Cream – 225ml

Caramel Sauce – 85g

Ingredients:Decoration

Chopped Cashew / Peanuts

Method:

• Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Keep it aside until use.
• In a separate bowl beat eggs, melted butter and sugar together.
• When the mixture becomes thick add vanilla and fresh milk.
• Gradually incorporate flour mixture with this.
• Then add hot water and beat well.
• Once the batter is ready, pour this into a baking tray (9”x13”) and bake the cake around 30 mins under 180C in a pre-heated oven.
• Soon after baking poke the cake by using a handle of a wooden spoon while the cake is still warm.
• Then fill these holes with condensed milk. After filling all holes keep the cake in the fridge around 01 hour to set.
• Meanwhile we can make the caramel sauce. For that put some sugar into a pan and heat until it becomes dark brown.
• Then add hot water and rest of the sugar.
• When the sugar syrup becomes string consistency add whipping cream and heat around 01 min until smooth.
• Then remove the pan from the heat and add butter and vanilla. Stir this until smooth and set aside to cool down to room temperature.
• In a separate bowl whip cream until stiff peaks form.
• After that add around 85g of prepared caramel sauce to whipped cream and mix.
• Once this is ready, we can spread whipped cream evenly on top of the cake.
• Then drizzle remaining caramel sauce all over the cake. By this time if your caramel sauce has become thick, melt it again a bit before using. Make a nice swirl pattern by using a toothpick.
• Decorate the cake more by sprinkling some chopped cashew or peanuts.
• Again, keep the cake in the fridge around 01 more hour to set further.
• Enjoy…