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Try our white chocolate cake recipe then check out our white chocolate and raspberry cake, chocolate fudge cake, chocolate birthday cake and easy chocolate cake. Our easy white chocolate fudge cake is covered with American-style whipped white frosting, which is lighter than a ganache or buttercream.

  • 300g butter
    softened
  • 150g white chocolate
    chopped (we used Green & Black’s), plus extra, grated to serve
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 5 eggs
  • 150g golden caster sugar
  • 150g light soft brown sugar
  • 300g self-raising flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder

WHITE CHOCOLATE FROSTING

  • 5 tbsp plain flour
  • 250ml whole milk
  • 150g white chocolate
    chopped
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 225g butter
    softened
  • 200g golden caster sugar

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal784
  • fat46.8g
  • saturates28.3g
  • carbs80.8g
  • fibre1.4g
  • protein8.9g
  • salt1.1g
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Method

  • step 1

    Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line 3 x 20cm sponge tins. Melt the butter and chocolate carefully together, then pour into the bowl of a mixer and cool for 10 minutes. Don’t worry if it separates when it cools.

  • step 2

    Beat the butter and chocolate mixture for a couple of minutes and then beat in the eggs one by one, alternating them with batches of sugar. Add the vanilla, the flour and baking powder and beat on low to make a smooth batter. Divide the mixture between the sponge tins and bake for 20-25 minutes or until the edges come away from the sides of the tin and a skewer comes out clean. Be careful not to overcook the cake or it will go very brown as there is a lot of sugar in it. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.

  • step 3

    To make the frosting, whisk the flour into the milk over a medium heat and whisk until the mixture thickens. Stir in the chocolate and vanilla and cool. Beat the butter and sugar together until they’re light and fluffy, then beat in the chocolate mix until you have a light, fluffy mixture. Layer the cakes up with some of the frosting and then frost the outside. Decorate by grating over some more white chocolate.

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A star rating of 4.2 out of 5.5 ratings

c.davies81023591

The frosting came out far too runny I would stick to a basic 2 ingredient butter-cream (butter and icing sugar) and add the white choclate to it. The cake dipped in the middle quite badly. Next time, leave out the baking powder as it's not necessary with self raising flour and maybe cut back to 3…

goodwine2791416

Brilliant recipe, my family loved this cake. The frosting was thin and runny when I made it. I put it in the fridge for a couple of hours and it thickened up nicely. Definitely a family favourite now.

Alexopad3JeOyrCct

Terrible recipe, followed all instructions and cakes didn’t rise at all, and ‘frosting’ wasn’t even useable or even frosting

c.davies81023591

Mine came out the same. Cake dipped in the middle (maybe next time avoid the baking powder as it's not necessary with Self raising) and the frosting well I had to add tonnes on icing sugar just to make it usable as it was far too runny.

kriste666hjwyU4IN

question

Can I use blue colouring in the frosting? 😊

olive-magazine

Hi, yes absolutely. You can use blue or any other colour food colouring you like. We hope this helps. Best wishes, the olive team.

jculumQcQJaDb0

I made this cake three times now - if you like white chocolate there is nothing better than this cake out there. It is not too sweet (you might think it is due to white chocolate) and it is super delicious. Very easy to make too.

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