Alison Niven

Malteser Cake

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    16

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Gloagburn: Recipes from a Scottish Farm
Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

  • About

This humble slice was one of our first successes in the coffee shop and it is still always in the cake cabinet. It’s a simple tea-time treat that’s hard to look past.

Ingredients

  • 75 g butter
  • 75 g golden syrup
  • 250 g

Method

  1. In a heavy-bottomed pot, melt the butter, syrup and 125g of the chocolate over a low heat. Stir occasionally so nothing catches and burns.
  2. Put the digestive biscuits into a food processor and blitz until you have crumbs (or put them into a bowl and bash them with a rolling pin).
  3. Stir the biscuits and Maltesers into the melted chocolate and butter mixt