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Rolo Loaf Cake

Course Dessert
Cuisine British
Keyword Baking, Cakes, caramel, chocolate, rolos
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 10 slices

Ingredients

Cake

  • 200 g Butter
  • 200 g Caster Sugar
  • 300 g Self-Raising Flour
  • 4 Eggs
  • 4 tbsp Cocoa Powder
  • 2 tbsp Whole Milk
  • 4 tbsp Salted Caramel Sauce

Buttercream

  • 150 g Unsalted Butter
  • 300 g Icing Sugar
  • 3 tbsp Cocoa Powder
  • 1 tbsp Whole Milk
  • 1 tbsp Salted Caramel Sauce
  • Rolos

Instructions

Cake

  • Preheat the oven to 170°C/gas mark 3. Line a 30cm loaf tin with baking paper.
  • Beat together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy then add in the eggs until fully incorporated.
  • Gently fold in the flour and the cocoa powder and mix until fully incorporated, add whole milk if mixture is too thick.
  • Pour half the mixture into the prepared tin, then spoon in some salted caramel sauce in the middle then add the rest of the cake mixture.
  • Bake for 45–50 minutes, until a metal skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Leave to cool on a wire rack

Buttercream

  • Beat the butter until pale and fluffy then sieve in the icing sugar a bit at a time until fully incorporated.
  • Then add in the cocoa powder and a tbsp of milk and mix until fully incorporated.
  • Add the buttercream to a piping bag with star nozzles and pipe chocolate buttercream until the whole cake is decorated.
  • Add the rolos on top then warm up a tbsp on salted caramel sauce and drizzle over the top of the cake.