Toffee Crunch Layer Cake – Life Love and Sugar

This Toffee Layer Cake has layers of brown sugar cake studded with toffee bits, toffee sauce and toffee buttercream all put collectively into one wonderful cake! There’s just a little crunch and a complete lot of taste on this cake and it’s good for fall!

slice of toffee layer cake on white plate with toffee sauce in the background

Superb Toffee Dessert

I positive do love something made with toffee sauce. As a cousin to caramel sauce, it’s a favourite of mine. And this cake has all that tremendous taste in every half.

The cake layers even have bits of toffee baked proper into them, together with brown sugar within the cake. It not solely offers the cake nice taste, but additionally some distinctive texture. The toffee items soften up however nonetheless preserve their form and due to this fact only a contact of crunch. Some items float properly within the cake, whereas some fall to the underside, which provides every cake layer a stunning little toffee layer.

The cake is crammed with each toffee sauce and toffee buttercream that has toffee sauce in it. The flavour of each is wonderful they usually praise the cake completely. The mixture of all the pieces collectively is a toffee lovers dream and the nice and cozy flavors are good for fall and winter.

What’s the distinction between Toffee Sauce and Caramel Sauce?

The distinction between the 2 comes right down to the kind of sugar they’re made with. Each usually have butter and cream as a main ingredient. Nonetheless caramel sauce is made with common granulated sugar, whereas toffee sauce is made with brown sugar.

cake with toffee dripping down the sides on marble cake stand and marble background

Elements for Toffee Cake

Whereas it might seem to be a protracted checklist of elements, they’re pretty straight ahead. Seize your toffee bits and let’d get began.

For the Cake Layers:

All Function Flour: You’ll want to measure your taste precisely so that you simply don’t find yourself with a dense or dry cake. I at all times suggest weighing with a meals scale, however should you don’t have one, you should utilize the scoop and stage methodology. Be certain to not pack the flour into the cup.
Baking Powder: For the most effective rise and cake texture.
Salt: For taste.
Butter: Be certain your butter is at room temperature in order that it incorporates appropriately.
Sugar: This cake makes use of each granulated and brown sugar for the most effective in style and texture.
Vanilla extract: For enhanced taste
Bitter Cream: This doesn’t simply add moisture to the cake, it additionally thickens the batter in order that the toffee sauces float within the batter.
Eggs: For moisture and construction.
Milk: I take advantage of 2% milk, however complete milk would work as nicely.
Toffee Bits: I take advantage of the Well being Toffee Bits that you simply discover on the grocery retailer. They’re often on the baking isle, close to the chocolate chips.

For the Toffee Sauce:

Butter
Darkish Brown Sugar: Utilizing darkish brown sugar actually does add extra taste to this sauce. I extremely suggest it over gentle brown sugar right here.
Heavy Cream: The sauce wants the fats within the heavy cream. Don’t substitute it for normal milk.
Vanilla extract
Salt

For the Toffee Buttercream:

Butter: At room temperature.
Powdered sugar: Along with sweetness, powdered sugar provides quantity to the buttercream and thickens it. I’m typically requested about decreasing it, however understand that the buttercream can be thinner should you scale back it with out adjusting the opposite elements as nicely. Because you want the buttercream to carry the toffee sauce in place, you don’t need your buttercream to be too skinny/tender.
Toffee sauce: This would be the toffee sauce we make as a part of the recipe.
Salt: To boost the flavour.

toffee cake with a slice cut out sitting on cake stand

How you can Make Toffee Cake

There’s a number of elements to this cake, but it surely all comes collectively pretty simply.

Make The Cake Layers

Prep: Put together three 8 inch cake pans with parchment paper circles within the backside and grease the perimeters. Preheat oven to 350°F.
Mix Dry Elements: Mix the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium sized bowl and put aside.
Mix Moist Elements: Add the butter, sugars and vanilla extract to a big mixer bowl and beat collectively on medium pace till gentle in shade and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes. Don’t skimp on the creaming time. Add the bitter cream and blend till nicely mixed. Add the eggs one after the other, mixing till principally mixed after every. Scrape down the perimeters of the bowl as wanted to make sure all elements are nicely integrated.
Alternate Dry and Moist Elements: Add half of the dry elements to the batter and blend till principally mixed. Slowly add the milk and blend till nicely mixed. Add the remaining dry elements and blend till nicely mixed and clean. Scrape down the perimeters of the bowl as wanted to make sure all elements are nicely integrated. Don’t over combine the batter.
Add Toffee Bits: Fold within the toffee bits.
Bake: Divide the batter evenly between the truffles pans and bake for 22-25 minutes, or till a toothpick comes out with a number of crumbs. Take away the truffles from the oven and permit to chill for about 2-3 minutes, then take away to cooling racks to chill utterly.

Make the Toffee Sauce

Crucial factor to recollect when making the toffee sauce is to not flip the warmth up. Prepare dinner the sauce over medium warmth, or just a little decrease in case your burner runs sizzling, and permit the sugar to soften slowly.

Prepare dinner Butter and Sugar: Add the butter and brown sugar to a big saucepan and warmth over medium warmth (or medium-low, in case your range heats just a little hotter than some) Soften the butter and permit the brown sugar to dissolve. Slowly carry the combination to a boil. This could take about 10-Quarter-hour. Don’t be tempted to show the temperature larger to hurry the method up. The sugar gained’t dissolve correctly and the toffee sauce might break up. If the combination begins to boil earlier than the sugar is totally melted, flip the warmth down.
Add Cream: When the sugar is melted and the combination begins to boil, slowly pour within the cream whip whisking continually. The combination will bubble up. Proceed whisking till all the pieces comes collectively.
Boil and Thicken: Slowly carry combination again to a boil over medium-low warmth. Boil till thick sufficient to coat the again of a spoon. Take away sauce from warmth and add vanilla extract and salt.
Enable to Cool: Enable the sauce to chill to room temperature, then refrigerate till utterly cooled.

cake with toffee sauce dripping down the sides and toffee bits around the top and bottom

Make the Buttercream

Beat Butter: Add the butter to a big mixing bowl and beat till clean.
Add Half of Powdered Sugar: Slowly add half of the powdered sugar and blend till nicely mixed and clean.
Add Some Toffee Sauce: Add half a cup of toffee sauce and the salt and blend till nicely mixed.
Add Remaining Powdered Sugar and Toffee Sauce: Slowly add the remaining powdered sugar and blend till nicely mixed and clean. Add toffee sauce, as wanted, to get the suitable consistency of frosting and taste. You need the buttercream to be thick sufficient to carry the filling of the cake in place, but additionally not be too thick and have good taste. See my put up on frosting consistency for extra info.

Construct the Cake

Degree Cake Layers: Use a big serrated knife to take away the domes from the highest of the truffles in order that they’re flat. These truffles don’t have a big dome, however I like to ensure they’re utterly flat.
Add Filling Layers: Place the primary cake on a serving plate or a cardboard cake spherical. Unfold about 1/2 a cup of buttercream evenly on high of the cake. Pipe a dam of buttercream across the outer fringe of the cake, on high of the layer of buttercream you simply added. Fill the dam with about 1/2 a cup of toffee sauce and unfold evenly. You need the highest of the dam to be even with the toffee sauce.
Add Second Layer of Cake and Filling: Add the second layer of cake and one other layer of frosting, a dam and toffee sauce.
Add Closing Layer And Frost Cake: High the cake with the remaining layer and frost the skin of the cake. Discuss with my tutorial for frosting a clean cake, if wanted.
Adorn: Gently heat the remaining toffee sauce within the microwave for about 10 seconds at a time, stirring between every 10 second increment. Don’t over-heat the sauce or it might separate. Use it so as to add a drip to the perimeters of the cake, if desired. End off the cake with a rim of toffee items across the high and backside of the cake.

slice of toffee cake on white plate with a bite removed

Suggestions For Finest Outcomes

Low And Sluggish: As soon as once more, remember to use a medium to low warmth to provide the sugar a change to totally soften and to maintain the sauce from separating.
Cool The Sauce: You’ll want to permit the toffee sauce to chill utterly earlier than you add it to the cake layers or the buttercream. If it’s too heat, it’ll soften the buttercream. It’ll even be extra steady within the cake layers when cool.
Thick Buttercream: I do know it’s tempting to scale back the quantity of powdered sugar, however should you do, you also needs to scale back the opposite buttercream elements by the identical ratio, in the end simply making much less buttercream. The thick consistency of the buttercream can be essential on this cake so that each one the filling layers keep in place.

How you can Retailer and Serve This Cake

This cake must be saved within the fridge. In case you have an air tight cake service that’ll slot in your fridge, that’s greatest in order that it doesn’t dry out. I’d suggest this one. The cake must be served at room temperature for the most effective style and texture.

Can I Freeze This Cake?

I don’t usually suggest freezing totally adorned truffles, however you may freeze the person elements. Wrap the cake layers nicely in clear wrap and foil, then place in ziplock luggage. Thaw them within the fridge when prepared. The buttercream will also be saved within the fridge for as much as a month and frozen for as much as 3 months. Thaw it, carry it again to room temperature and stir it nicely earlier than utilizing. Freeze the toffee sauce for as much as 3 months as nicely.

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