Eggless Chocolate Surprise Cake, 4 layer cake with surprise candies in the center
Ingredients:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Baking Soda
- 6 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- ¾ cup Granulated Sugar
- ½ cup Vegetable oil ( I used sunflower oil)
- ¼ cup Hot Coffee (1 tsp of coffee in ¼cup hot water)
- ¼ cup Milk
- ¼ cup Yogurt
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- 4 packets. M&M candies
Chocolate Icing

- 100 g Unsalted Butter room temp
- ⅓ cup Cocoa powder
- 100g Icing sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- 2-3 tsp Hot water
Method:

- In a large bowl sift together the all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder, and sugar.
- Make a well, add all the wet ingredients one by one.
- Mix well, till everything is combined
- Pour the batter into a greased tin and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 20- 25 minutes or until the cake tester comes out clean.
- Transfer the cake onto a wire rack, once cool now comes the fun part.
- Place a blob of icing on a plate and then one layer of cake to prevent the cake from sliding around.
- Before you place the next two layers, take a circle cookie cutter and place it in the center, using a sharp knife cut around the cookie cutter to create a circle in the middle, you should have cut through the two layers.
- Now place the icing on one layer and place it icing side down on the first layer that is already on the plate.
- Ice the second layer only the cake part do notice the center, just around the center and place the third layer which also has a hole in the center on top.
- Fill in all the way to the top with M&Ms and then ice the cake part of the layer. Finally, place the last layer on top and ice and decorate with M&Ms.

Prepared, tried, and tested by: Bobby Swanson