Choc-fudge layer cake with Rice Krispie clusters

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Fudge icing or buttercream? Milk chocolate or dark? The choices are too cruel. So don't choose – use them all at once. Just add coffee, white chocolate and condensed milk plus a tower of crunchy chocolate clusters, and you’ll have the most decadent layer cake you’ve ever baked.

Ingredients

560 g flour
4 t bicarbonate of soda
1 t salt
230 g butter
400 g white sugar
400 g brown sugar
6 free-range eggs
2 T vanilla extract
2 cups buttermilk
200 g 70% dark chocolate, melted
2 cups espresso
For the buttercream icing:
250 g butter, room temperature
520 g icing sugar
1/3 cup milk
100 g white chocolate, melted
100 g milk chocolate
100 g 70% dark chocolate, melted
For the fudgy icing:
100 g milk chocolate, melted
1 x 385 g can condensed milk
For the Rice Krispie clusters:
100 g milk chocolate, melted
2 cups Rice Krispies

Cooking Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C and grease 4 x 22 cm cake tins.

2. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a bowl. Using an electric beater, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

3. Add the eggs, vanilla and buttermilk to the sugar mixture and beat until well incorporated. Mix in the chocolate and coffee.

4. Gently fold in the dry ingredients and pour into the cake tins. Bake for 30 minutes, then set aside to cool.

5. To make the buttercream icing, cream the butter, 130 g icing sugar and a small amount of the milk until light and fluffy using an electric beater. Gradually add the remaining icing sugar and milk, alternating between the two, until combined. Divide the buttercream between 3 bowls and fold each chocolate into one of the bowls. Chill until required.

6. To make the fudgy icing, mix the chocolate and condensed milk until glossy.

7. To make the Rice Krispie clusters, fold the Rice Krispies into the melted chocolate and spoon onto baking paper. Chill to set.

8. To assemble the cake, use the buttercream icing to sandwich together the cakes, then top with the fudgy icing and Rice Krispie clusters.

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