Easy Chocolate Cake w/Fudge Frosting & Maltesers

I had this grand plan to try out another recipe from my Women's Weekly 'COOK' bible, one for a Family Chocolate Cake with Fudge Frosting. Then when I came to prep the ingredients, I realised that this recipe was going to bake up one mother of a chocolate cake. 250g butter in the cake alone is a pretty artery clogging thought. So I decided to refine the recipe somewhat, not wanting to be eating mountains of cake for the rest of the week. What turned out was a hybrid creation birthday cake for Scott. I chose an easy chocolate cake recipe online at ninemsn; Took the Fudge Frosting idea out of the Women's Weekly 'COOK' bible; And added a finishing touch of a little favourite in this house, maltesers (another nifty idea I stole from the Women's Weekly, where I've seen a recipe for cupcakes with the malteser topping). The result... a rich, soft, uber chocolatey birthday cake:

Easy Chocolate Cake with Fudge Frosting & Maltesers

Easy Chocolate Cake

1 cup self raising flour

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 tablespoons cocoa powder

3 (45g) tablespoons butter

Preheat oven to 160 degrees (fan forced)

Sift all dry ingredients into a mixing bowl

Add milk, eggs and vanilla

Mix ingredients roughly

Melt butter in saucepan and add to bowl. Mix thoroughly, until all combined

Pour into 25cm round cake pan

Bake for approx 25 mins

Fudge Frosting

90g Butter

1/3 cup (80ml) water

1/2 cup (110g) caster sugar

1 1/2 cups (240g) icing sugar

1/3 cup (35g) cocoa powder

Stir butter, water and caster sugar in small saucepan over heat until sugar dissolves

Sift icing sugar and cocoa in a small bowl, then gradually stir in butter mixture

Refrigerate 20 mins or until thickened; Beat; spread over cake

Topping

Cut 155g pack maltesers in half and arrange on top of cake