Everyone remembers the scene from the movie Matilda where the school principal challenges Bruce to eat a giant cake while his classmates encourage him to the chorus of “Bruce, Bruce” when they see that he can’t go on. In that image we can see a moist chocolate cake that, together with this article, we will teach you how to prepare “with blood and sweat”.
The Matilda cake is one of the most famous for the scene that we have just told, but also for how delicious it is. Do you want to surprise someone with this dessert? Read on to find out how Matilda cake is made.
Ingredients to make Matilda Cake:
- 80 grams of sugar
- 50 grams of sweet cocoa
- 85 grams of white flour
- 50 grams of butter
- 1 egg
- 1 dessert spoon of vanilla essence
- 100 milliliters of milk
- 100 cubic centimeters of coffee
- ½ dessert spoon of baking powder (chemical yeast)
- 1 pinch of salt
- 3 tablespoons of dulce de leche
- 1 tablespoon of chocolate for coverage
How to make Matilda Cake:
- To start preparing this delicious Matilda cake, mix the sugar with the flour and cocoa, the baking powder and a pinch of salt.
- Tip:to get a fluffier cake, sift the flour and cocoa.
- Add the egg and melted butter. Then, add the hot coffee and milk and beat the preparation. It will be somewhat runny, but don’t worry, this is what will make it so wet.
- Grease a 16 cm diameter mold with oil or butter and cocoa. Also preheat the oven to medium temperature, that is, to 180 ºC.
- Tip: you can also use flour for the mold, but keep in mind that the cake will be white when you unmold it.
- Pour the preparation into the mold and cook it in the oven for 25 minutes. You will notice that the cake is cooked if, when you pierce it, no remains of the preparation remain on the toothpick or knife. Let it cool.
- Once cold, cut the cake into 3 layers to form the Matilda cake.
- Mix the dulce de leche and the chocolate. If your chocolate is not smooth, melt it in the microwave in 20-second intervals, stirring until completely melted, or in a water bath.
- Spread the layers of your Matilda cake with the chocolate dulce de leche filling as you layer them.
- Once finished, cover it and reserve it in the fridgeso that the layers finish settling and you can enjoy it cold. We recommend accompanying it with some bitter infusion because this cake is very sweet and chocolaty.
