Spicy Chocolate Praline Cake
I love the little spicy biscuits you get with a coffee, and this cake is made using these and the spread you can now buy which is made with the same mixture - Lotus Biscoff biscuits and spread. They're also called Speculoos biscuits, and my Dutch friend sends me the spice mixture every year. You can buy fantastic wooden moulds to make them. I bought my jar of their version of the spread from Lidl at Christmas, but am not sure if they sell it all year round. It's a loaf cake, which I love making, and it has a great mix of ingredients. You need: 150g butter, 3 eggs, 100g caster sugar, 100g sr flour, 100g praline chocolate, 50g Lotus spread, 20g ground hazelnuts, 1 tspn vanilla extract and 5 Lotus biscuits. Preheat oven 180C/gas4 Grease and line a 900g loaf tin Break the chocolate into pieces and crush the biscuits into smallish lumps. Beat the eggs and sugar together for 10 mins in a mixer or using an elect...