OMG!! This Layered Daim Sponge Cake is SO yummy! Imagine a mix of sweet chocolate crunch, soft sponge cake and fluffy whipped cream – delicious!
The base recipe for this cake has been around for years. However, we like to update it a little bit from time to time and this Layered Daim Sponge Cake version became extremely successful – if we must say so… 😉
In addition to being incredibly good, it is also surprisingly easy to make. If you do not have 2 springform cake tins in 18 cm, it is also perfectly fine to use a single cake tin in a 24 cm.
Recipe
You will need:
Sponge Cake base:
• 4 eggs
• 180 g sugar
• 120 g wheat flour
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• Butter and some wheat flour for the baking pan
Filling
• 300 ml heavy cream
• 3 tbsp. hot chocolate powder
• 2 pck. double Daim
• 65 g Almonds
Buttercream
• 150 g soft butter
• 180 icing sugar
• 1 tbsp. vanilla sugar
• 50 ml. boiling hot water
Decoration
• 2 Daim Bars, chopped
How to:
Sponge Cake base:
- Priheat the oven to 200C / 390F degrees.
- Beat eggs and sugar until light and fluffy, preferably 5-6 minutes. Sift wheat flour and baking powder into the batter. Stir gently until everything is mixed into a smooth batter.
- Lubricate and powder evenly with wheat flour, two round 18 cm springform cake tins with detachable edge.
- Distribute the batter evenly between the two tins and bake in the middle of the oven for about 10 minutes. Check with a skewer.
- Allow to cool completely.
Filling:
- Mix heavy cream and hot chocolate powder and whisk until light and fluffy.
- Chop Daim Bar and almonds. Set aside.
Buttercream:
- Place the soft butter in a bowl and sift in icing sugar and vanilla sugar. Whisk until combined. Continue to whisk while adding some boiling water, a little at a time until the cream has a nice smooth consistency.
- Divide the cake bases into two. Spread over cream on the bottom layer and sprinkle with chopped Daim Bar and chopped almonds. Do the same with the next two layers.
- Chill the cake for 10-15 minutes before you cover the entire cake with a fine layer of buttercream.
Decorate with chopped daim.