Chocolate Cappuccino Tart and Apple, Cinnamon and Caramel Cake

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I made Mary Berry's Chocolate Cappuccino Tart as our Easter dessert from her recent Quick Cooking series. My son and family were due to arrive for Easter Sunday lunch, but he had to go into work for an emergency, so my daughter and I were left with a huge leg of lamb and Mary's dessert!
It took us all week to eat it!

 https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/mary-berrys-chocolate-cappuccino-tart

I didn't finish the top in the same way as Mary, just added some Easter eggs. Thought enough cream had gone into it! It's extremely rich and a small slice is enough. Maybe I should have tried to freeze it rather than to eat it all! My neighbour was given several slices, as was a friend.


Yesterday my son and family did finally arrive to eat with us, so I decided to make a special cake. My son loves anything caramel, so this recipe seems just the thing. I found the recipe on an American site, but changed the recipe to suit us, and changed the cups into grams.

Cake: 150g soft brown sugar, 2 tspn cinnamon, 225g soft butter, 200g caster sugar, 4 eggs, 3 tspn vanilla extract, 375g plain flour with 31/2 tspn baking powder, 250ml milk, 2 medium apples and the juice of 1 lemon.
Filling :  4 tbspn Carnation caramel plus extra for pouring over the top
Topping: 60g soft butter, 1/4tspn vanilla extract,2 tspn cinnamon,125g icing sugar and 1 tbspn milk

Grease and line 2x20cm cake tins              Preheat oven 160C/gas3

Peel and chop the apples then add the lemon juice.
Mix the brown sugar and cinnamon together.
Beat the butter and caster sugar till light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time and the vanilla extract.
Fold the flour mixture in gently, then add the milk and mix till smooth.
Put 1/4 of this batter into each tin, sprinkle over a layer of apple then top with another 1/4 of the mixture. Top with any remaining apple and the cinnamon/sugar mix.
Bake for 40-50 mins, then remove from the tins and cool on a wire rack.

When the cakes are cool, put one onto a cake plate and spread a layer of caramel over the cake.
Make the buttercream by beating all the ingredients together till smooth, then spread this over the caramel layer. Top with the second cake. Heat some caramel in the microwave and drizzle over the top of the cake.


It's a lovely mixture of flavours -  apple cake, cinnamon buttercream and caramel . It has a moist light crumb and a nice cinnamon flavour. We found if very moreish and quite rich, so small slices!

Comments

Phil in the Kitchen said…
Mary B does seem to love rich desserts and cakes. Recently two people I know played a game (a kind of poker, I suppose) based who could find the highest number of calories in recently published cake recipes. Mary B did well but was beaten by a breathtakingly rich cake from Nadiya Hussain. Rich or not, I do like the sound of both the tart and the cake but I think it might take me years to eat my way through them.
30/4/19 2:54 pm
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