White chocolate spotty cake

White chocolate spotty cake

Get creative with toppings to make a treat for family and friends - or add these bite-sized cakes to your next bake sale

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Cuts into 15 squares

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 mins

Cook time

Cook 30 mins

Freezable

Can be frozen un-iced

Method

  1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease a 20 x 30cm tin, then line with baking parchment. Beat the butter, flour, sugar, baking powder, eggs, yogurt, milk and vanilla until lump-free. Stir in the chopped chocolate. Spoon into tin; bake for 25-30 mins until golden and risen and a skewer comes out clean. Cool in the tin.
  2. Melt the rest of the chocolate. Stir icing sugar into soft cheese, then the chocolate until smooth. Chill, spread over the cake, then cut into squares and decorate.

Per serving

489 kcalories, protein 8g, carbohydrate 55g, fat 28 g, saturated fat 16g, fibre 1g, sugar 40g, salt 0.73 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2010.

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  • 2010-10-22 21:07:42.760792

    Jadzia rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    The cake turned out great, perhaps a little bit too sweet.

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  • 2010-10-23 14:49:43.369451

    Linnie commented on this recipe

    Great cake. Put smarties on the top, but by the next day the colour in them had faded big time, icing was still soft so I would only put the smarties on as I served them next time (and there will be a next time!).

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  • 2011-01-12 13:03:03.733807

    Andie GF commented on this recipe

    Not sure what happened. The cake appeared cooked (and I have cooked cakes before) but the middle of the cake was still quite raw, so had to cut the outside and eat that instead. The taste was lovely and wanted more.

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  • 2011-01-18 19:37:06.412996

    rusty rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    My uni friends absolutely love this cake (quote: "omg this is the best cake you've ever made") though I did adapt the icing slightly; I used quark instead of cream cheese with a bit of cinnamon. I did find the white chocolate chips just sank to the bottom, which was a shame. I love how moist the yoghurt keeps it. I usually half the recipe as it makes a massive amount (I've had 30 odd cupcakes out of the whole recipe before)

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  • 2011-01-24 19:29:28.777514

    Beth rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I too suffered from bleeding smarties. If you are serving it to people where you would like to leave a good impression put the smarties on just before serving.

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  • 2011-03-04 13:39:48.456658

    chrisgalea rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I 've used this frosting with a normal chocolate cake because my son wanted a chocolate cake with vanilla frosting. Very easy to do and really good.

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  • 2011-03-15 13:17:50.688659

    Lisa commented on this recipe

    This is a very wet mix?! Its been in the oven for 30 minutes and is nowhere near cooked. Hope it turns out ok.

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  • 2011-03-15 16:04:39.0241

    Lisa rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    This is the worst cake I have ever made! The cake was soggy and the icing didn't set. I have made loads of cakes and never had such a disaster. I followed the recipe to the letter. Where did I go wrong?

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  • 2011-03-26 14:52:17.018924

    Amanda rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    I too found that the cake didn't cook through properly, and I had even cooked it for another 15 minutes on top of the cooking time. My skewer came out clean, but when I cut it up I found it wasn't done in he middle. I too make at least one cake a week, and have only had one other recipe fail me like this.

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  • 2011-03-27 20:07:05.851689

    Jigglypuff rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Made this today with the children and we did indeed have a bit of trouble getting it to cook through to a nice consistency. We took it out in the end as the outside was beginning to burn; but the inside is still a little bit doughy. It tastes good, though, and it was easy to make :)

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  • 2011-05-26 16:19:19.462869

    Abi.L commented on this recipe

    I had the same problem with this. I doesn't seem to have risen and the inside consistency is similar to a moist shortbread or super dense cheesecake??? Icing was belting though! Does anyone know what I did wrong?

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  • 2011-06-22 13:39:59.093355

    lucy rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Made these cakes for school fundraiser and they sold out within minutes. All the students loved them and they were really easy to make. Would say to make sure you take the cream cheese out for a while before using for the frosting as mine was quite hard to get smooth and this was due to my error of not taking it out early enough. Would definitely make again.

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  • 2012-02-17 09:52:47.875326

    Alicia rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    This cake is surprisingly dense and rich. I made an alteration using chunks of galaxy in the mix and white choc in the frosting. It turned out really great!

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  • 2012-03-08 22:19:39.467739

    Frankie rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    Like many others I had a problem with the cake cooking through. I honestly don't think 25-30 minutes is enough. I left mine in for a full hour and it still wasn't completely done in the middle. Maybe this varies depending on the size of the tin you use, mine was slightly bigger than stated. I might leave out the milk next time, surely the yoghurt is enough?

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  • 2012-04-19 14:34:37.963205

    ilaria rated this recipe

    5 stars

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  • 2012-04-19 14:42:55.279618

    ilaria commented on this recipe

    i let it cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 140 C fan oven, and it managed to cook well on the inside but i had to chop off the sides as they were brown and overcooked. great great taste though! kids loved it, hubby very happy.

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  • 2012-05-05 10:12:44.450277

    k_rooke393 rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I'm a complete novice to baking and this is the first recipe I've tried. I've done it twice now and it's turned out brilliantly both times, although it did need an extra five minutes in the oven. The icing is very sickly sweet - you can't eat a lot of it...though that may be just as well!

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  • 2012-06-19 21:28:47.066965

    natashanordin commented on this recipe

    OK! Firstly, the method in the cake recipe is wrong. Any decent baker knows that you don't beat flour as the gluten reacts and causes a dense cake that will not rise. Try this: Prepare your tin by greasing, lining and wrapping the outside in a few layers of Newspaper or Brown paper (I use around 4 sheets of newspaper folded to the depth of the tin.) Seive the flour and baking powder together a few times and set it aside. Beat the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy Add the eggs 1 at a time, each with a tablespoon of the flour to prevent curdling. Beat in the rest of the wet ingredients until well mixed. Fold in the remaining flour and then add the chocolate. Place in the oven for 20-30 mins until a crust has formed on the top and then cover the top of the cake with parchment paper to prevent burning. Then check every 10-15 mins until skewer comes out completely clean. Good Luck people. xxx

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  • 2012-07-15 21:43:59.845081

    davies rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    After reading the comments about this cake I decided to use less yoghurt and didn't use any milk in the sponge mixture. Unfortunately even cooking it on a lower heat and for longer didn't make the texture any less soggy in the middle. The outer part of the sponge was okay but no taste of chocolate. The topping was lovely but I wouldn't make the sponge again.

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    2012-08-23 17:20:14.299813

    CEF rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I made this cake for a school summer fair and was initially a tad worried about its weight (it feels very very heavy when cooked) but I have it on good authority that it tastes brilliant and the icing made it all go together well. I even made this cake a couple of weeks in advance and froze the sponge before defrosting to ice the day before the fair!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Cuts into 15 squares

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 mins

Cook time

Cook 30 mins

Freezable

Can be frozen un-iced

Ingredients

  • 250g pack butter , softened
  • 300g self-raising flour
  • 250g golden caster sugar
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 4 eggs
  • 150ml pot natural yogurt
  • 3 tbsp milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla paste
  • 200g bar white chocolate , half chopped
  • 300g soft cheese , not fridge cold
  • 100g icing sugar , sifted
  • sweets , to decorate
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Per serving

489 kcalories, protein 8g, carbohydrate 55g, fat 28 g, saturated fat 16g, fibre 1g, sugar 40g, salt 0.73 g

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