Archive note — February 2022: This Fake Bake records Tesco and Morrisons shopping from February 2022. The products, prices and under-£10 total are historical and should not be read as current supermarket availability or pricing.
I had taken for granted how easily I could whip up a Fake Bake cake. When I decided to do chocolate salted caramel I thought, “Easy-peasy”. My first Tesco attempt was not.
I mixed some salted-caramel sauce into the ready-made frosting and the particular mixture became much softer and harder to work with. The popcorn hid plenty of bumps, but I was not happy with the finish.
I wanted another go because chocolate and salted caramel is a flavour combination we have used repeatedly at Anges de Sucre. A few weeks later I took the £10 challenge to Morrisons. In that February 2022 shop, the chocolate cakes were £2 each and I also picked up salted-caramel frosting, Caramel Aero, McVitie’s Gold bars and gold sprinkles. The historic total came in under £10.
Fake Bake Recipe - Chocolate Salted Caramel Cake
@angesdesucre Fake Bake Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake for under £10. #fakebake
Ingredients
2x ready-made round chocolate layer cakes (5" or 6" size)
1 tub ready-made salted-caramel frosting
McVitie’s Gold bars
Caramel Aero bars
Gold sprinkles
Method
1. Prepare a cake turntable, angled palette knife, cake scraper, cake board, tablespoon, piping bag with a small star nozzle, knife and spatula.
2. Unbox the cakes. Smear a little frosting on the cake board and place one cake on it. Remove paper wrapping.
3. Loosen the frosting, spread a little over the first cake and stack the second cake on top.
4. Smooth the top, pipe frosting around the sides and scrape smooth.
5. For the drip used in this original recipe, melt three Caramel Aero bars gently in short microwave bursts or over a double boiler. Stir in 30ml of just-simmering water a little at a time until this batch is smooth enough to drip. This is a recipe-specific shortcut, not a universal ganache formula; different chocolates can behave differently when water is added.
6. Dip one end of a McVitie’s Gold bar into the drip mixture and cover it with gold sprinkles. Set aside. Chop a few more Gold bars into crumbly pieces.
7. Spoon the Caramel Aero mixture around the edge of the cake and gently push a few drips over the side. Cover the centre.
8. Pipe frosting swirls around the top, then decorate with the Gold bars, Caramel Aero, Gold-bar crumbs and sprinkles.
I was very pleased I revisited the idea after the first attempt. The decorated Gold bars were my favourite bit.
If you would rather order one made from scratch, our current MacDreamy is the relevant cake. See current delivery information for the service area and timings.
Lots of love,
Reshmi xoxo
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