Triple Layer Chocolate Cake with Walnuts
- Paul Hollywood
- Feb 13, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 25, 2020
Sandwiched together with delicious chocolate buttercream flavoured with brandy-soaked sultanas and walnuts, this layer cake is a chocoholic’s dream.

Makes: 20 Prep: 45 minutes Bake: 20 minutes
Ingredients
- 175g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
- 175g caster sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tbsp brandy
- 100g self-raising flour
- ½tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 40g walnuts, chopped
- 40g digestive biscuits finely chopped
- For the filling and topping
- 75g sultanas
- 4 tbsp brandy
- 180 – 200g good-quality dark chocolate (about 70 per cent cocoa solids or Bourneville)
- 150g unsalted butter, softened
- 150g icing sugar, sifted, plus extra for dusting
- 50g walnuts
Method
1. Heat your oven to 180°C. Line a 1kg loaf tin with baking parchment. For the filling, soak the sultanas in the brandy in a small bowl.
2. To make the cake, cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl until pale and fluffy; this can take up to 10 minutes. Gradually beat in the eggs and brandy, adding a little of the flour with each egg to guard against curdling. Sift the remaining flour, cocoa and baking powder together over the mixture and fold in gently. Finally, fold in the walnuts and biscuit crumbs. Scrape the mixture into the prepared tin.
3. Bake for about 45 minutes or until firm to touch. Leave in the tin for about 10 minutes, then turn out and cool completely on a wire rack.
4. For the filling, chop 150g of the chocolate and melt in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. Let cool until barely tepid. In a large bowl, cream the butter and the icing sugar together, then vigorously beat in the melted chocolate until creamy. Add the walnuts and sultanas with their brandy.
5. Slice the cake horizontally into 3 layers. Use two-thirds of the filling to sandwich these together and spread the remaining filling on top of the cake. Grate the rest of the chocolate on top and chill the cake thoroughly before serving. Sprinkle with icing sugar to finish.
Taken from Paul Hollywood’s How to Bake, published by Bloomsbury
Photograph © Peter Cassidy
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