My chocolate fudge icing us on another level, but I really did just want a thick chocolate taste in this, which is so easy to achieve with the cocoa powder I use. To make it even easier I did use cocoa powder as this prevents having to melt anything, but you can use a chocolate fudge icing, or a buttercream with melted chocolate in if you preferred. You can also add salt to the mixture if you wanted the caramel to be a salted caramel as this would be delicious and combat the sweetness really well.įor the frosting I decided to use a really basic chocolate buttercream. I wouldn’t recommend using a millionaires shortbread style caramel, as that won’t work! The caramel is meant to be oozy and delicious, so it doesn’t ‘set’ in the cake, but it’s not meant to. However, you can 100% make your own! I have a delicious homemade caramel sauce recipe on my blog that is thick, luscious and utterly delicious and perfect for this. The filling is really simple, its caramel sauce that is ready made.
Eggs – I used a 4 egg mixture for this cake, weighing the eggs in shells got me to 225g of egg so I used 225 of the other ingredients!.Flour – As always, self raising flour for cakes!!.Sugar – For this one I made a small change and used dark brown soft sugar instead of my normal light brown soft sugar for a cake like this – I wanted a deep caramel flavour and oh my gosh it was delicious!.Butter – For the sponge you can easily use a baking spread, margarine or room temperature butter – they all work well!.You can add the eggs one at a time if you wish, but I really don’t think it’s necessary – it just takes longer for a regular cake like this. I then add my flour, eggs and flavouring if I use any and mix this all together. I find that if your butter is too cold, and you do the all in one method, you may end up with a split lumpy butter bowl which nobody wants in their life! Creaming the butter and sugar together prevents this problem. I tend to always use the creaming method of butter and sugar first, as this normally means you won’t run into problems later. I never used to understand why loaf cakes were so popular, but they’re easy to serve, easy to bake, and you get bakes such as this millionaires loaf cake out of it!įor the sponge I wanted to follow my normal idea of a brown sugar type sponge, that is incredibly easy to make.
Honestly though, some of these bakes are my most viewed recipes ever, so why would I not contribute even more to the theme of utter deliciousness?! My millionaires cake is always popular, my millionaires shortbread is insanely popular, and I mean I just adore my millionaires cupcakes.įor this cake, I wanted to merge all of these delicious recipes into one of the most popular types of cake ever, the loaf cake. Now I know I have been a little heavy on the millionaires theme of bakes over the years, but that’s because I literally cannot explain how much I adore the millionaires theme. Please see my disclosure for more details!* A brown sugar cake filled with a caramel sauce, topped with silky smooth chocolate buttercream frosting = the best millionaires loaf cake!