Biscoff Cake!
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A delicious and moist 3-layer Biscoff cake with Lotus biscuits! Perfect spiced and sweet cake for all biscoff lovers out there!
I now have a good few Biscoff recipes on my blog and they are always super popular because a lot of you seem to have the same adoration for Biscoff as I do! I recently updated my biscoff cupcakes recipe to have some new pictures and they were such a massive hit I thought I would post my cake version of the recipe!
My recipes for my no-bake biscoff cheesecake and my biscoff fudge so I know that you guys will LOVE this. If you aren’t sure what biscoff is then I have no idea how else to explain it other than it is just DELIGHTFUL! Please check it out if you haven’t already – and you will understand my obsession.
I used a simple cake recipe using equal ratios of sugar/butter/flour/eggs as the base of my cake because it always works in my opinion, and it creates such a light and moist cake that there is no point messing with it.
Using the ratios works with most sponges – and the best way is to use the weight of eggs in their shells, and match the rest of the ingredients to that. I use 7 medium eggs roughly in this cake – but say they equalled 410g, I would use 410g butter, sugar and flour as well! This isn’t essential, it’s just the easiest way to get the best sponge.
Using the twist of light brown soft sugar in the sponges of the cake as I have in a few of my recipes now it really does work. I personally find that it makes the sponge actually that much moister and it’s utterly delicious compared to using normal caster sugar. This is of course optional though – you can use caster sugar or even dark brown soft sugar! Or a combination!
The cake has a lovely natural caramel taste to go with the caramelised theme of the Biscoff so it’s utterly dreamy. The biscoff flavoured buttercream is deliciously light and moussey even though it has the addition of the biscoff itself so this cake is perfection in my eyes.
When making the buttercream it is so important to use BLOCK unsalted butter and not a spread or margarine of any sort. I always believe and will say this forever and a day that block butter is so important. I know it’s solid as anything, and you need to wait for it to be room temperature before you can use it – but it then sets so firmly after.
If you use a baking spread or similar, you risk making the frosting far too soft. By the time you add the biscoff spread, you don’t want to end up with biscoff buttercream soup – and this is a definite risk. Top tip as well if your frosting splits – add a tbsp or two of boiling water or full-fat milk – it will bring it right back!
As my previous cake recipe to this, my caramac cake, had a drip-style to it I thought I would go back to my classic sort of baking styles and just layer them up with buttercream in the middle. I used the biscuits in the middle of each of the sponges and on top because it gives the little bit of a crunch that I always crave in a cake and without using the same sprinkles again, but this is optional.
My mum took this bake to her work as my family is a bit caked out at the moment so I thought it would be an idea to give it away to keep her colleagues happy, and I’m not joking when I say that it disappeared SO quickly I was even a tad shocked.
Like, I know usually there are some people that say no to cake because they are on a diet, but JEEEEEZ this one just went! So much biscoff loving. But seriously, this cake would be ideal for those who love cake but nothing too sweet, and definitely one for this caramelised delicious Lotus/Biscoff/Speculoos lovers out there!
Biscoff Cake!
Ingredients
Cake
- 400 g unsalted butter (room temp)
- 400 g light brown soft sugar
- 7 medium eggs
- 400 g self-raising flour
- 2 tsp baking powder (optional)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Buttercream
- 250 g unsalted butter (room temp)
- 500 g icing sugar
- 300 g biscoff spread
- 2-3 tbsps boiling water (if required)
Decoration
- 4 crushed biscoff biscuits
- 12 biscoff biscuits
- 50 g biscoff spread (melted)
- sprinkles
Instructions
For The Cake
- Preheat the oven to 180ºc/160ºfan and line three 20cm/8inch round cake tins with baking parchment – leave to the side.
- In a stand mixer, beat together the unsalted butter and light brown soft sugar for a few minutes until light and fluffy.
- Add in the self-raising flour, eggs, baking powder (if using) and vanilla and beat again briefly until combined.
- Divide the mixture between the three tins and smooth it over – bake for 25-30minutes until the cakes are golden and when the cake springs back (skewer should also come out clean)!
- Once baked, leave the cakes to cool in their tins for 10 minutes or so, and then remove and leave to cool fully on a wire rack.
For The Decoration
- Beat the room temperature unsalted butter with an electric mixer for a couple of minutes to loosen it
- Gradually add the icing sugar on a slow speed until it is combined then speed the mixer up and mix for 3-4 minutes until thoroughly combined and smooth.
- Add in the biscoff spread to the buttercream and continue mixing, and gradually add the boiling water until you reach the desired texture if it is needed! Keep on beating for 5 minutes until whipped and silky smooth!
- Using your favourite piping tip, I used a large round tip, pipe the buttercream onto the bottom layer of the cake. Add the second layer, and pipe buttercream on again!
- Add on the third layer of the cake and pipe on the rest of the buttercream.
- Drizzle over some melted biscoff spread, and add on some biscuits, crushed biscuits and some sprinkles. Alternatively you can just slather the buttercream on instead! Enjoy!
Notes
- I love this style of cake as you can tell from the few I have made, and I happen to have 3 8″ tins, if you don’t have 3 tins you can make a smaller version of the cake with two 8" tins (Can take slightly longer to bake)
- 300g Butter
- 300g Sugar
- 300g Flour
- 6 Medium Eggs
- 1.5tsps Baking Powder/1tsp Vanilla
- 2/3 of the decoration recipes!
- You can buy the Biscoff/Lotus spread in nearly all supermarkets in the UK now, its usually found next to Nutella!
- I wouldn't add the water to the buttercream unless it is essential. Often on a sunny or warm day, it won't be needed!
- This cake will last in an airtight container for 3 days, at room temperature.
- I used a large round tip, to decorate this cake!
ENJOY!
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Is this able to be frozen once made please? (Without the biscuits on top)
Hey, yes without biscuits on top xx
Hi , I need to make this cake a couple of days in advance to pass on , but concerned biscuits on top will go soft ??
Hey, yes they will, I would advise leaving them off until the last minute xx
Lovely cake … my children were very happy with it 🙂
Hey Jane,
Do you think instead of white chocolate if I used Callebaut gold to make the ganache it would work well with this? Also would the cream to chocolate ratio be the same to cover the outside of the cake with the Callebaut gold?
Planning to also add salted caramel in the layers as the birthday girl is mad about Biscoff and salted caramel! Hoping this will go well with the cake.
One last question, I need to make this as a 6 inch 4 layer cake. Would 2/3 of the recipe be about correct?
Hey, yes its worth a go but I havent tried it myself xx
Hi Jane,
Just wondering if you know roughly how high this cake measures to be? I’m not sure I have a container suitable to store it in. Also, what container would you typically use to store 3 layer cakes?
Hey!! It is 6-7 inches and I use cardboard cake boxes!xx
Wow have just made this cake for my sons birthday and its amazing. Really great recipe and surprisingly easy to make it look so impressive
Hii! I am so glad you enjoyed it!x
Hi Jane, I finally got my hands of biscoff spread in NZ and i really want to bake this for my birthday next week, I’m thinking of making 6inch (15cm) cakes though as 8inchs is a bit too big for us to finish at the office, what would you recommend re baking times in this smaller tin?
Hello! Im so glad you found it! Unfortunately I am unsure on baking times but I know the recipe would be about 2/3rds x
Can I use this as a 6 inch 3 or 4 layer cake?
Hello! Typically 6″ cake is 2/3 of the recipe, so you would probably get away with it all for a 4 layer version but the baking times would change x
Can I use homemade whipped cream instead of butter for the cream? My fiance doesn’t like buttercream😩
I would say its risky because it’s very soft and doesn’t hold up that well! x
Hi Jane,
I was hoping to make the two tier version of this cake but I only have one 20cm spring form tin, will this still work if I put all the mixture in this tin with just a bit longer in the oven?
Thanks, love your recipes!
It really depends on the depth of the tin, but personally I would say probably n to as most springform ones aren’t that deep x
Hi Jane I’m currently making this cake.
The sponges are out the oven and cooling but the edges are a bit hard on some? They were soft when I took the cake out but since cooling gone a tad hard.
I don’t have the best oven to be honest is this because I have over cooked it or my oven was on too high or does this genuinely happen anyway?
Many thanks Jodie.
Hello! Yes unfortunately this definitely sounds like its the oven, so it may be worth lowering the temperature and trying a different shelf!x
Hi Jane.
Can the buttercream be made with an electric whisk? I don’t have a stand mixer
Thanks ☺️
Hiya, yes absolutely it can! Hope this helps x
Heyy,
I only have one 24 cm cake tin.
Could I make this cake in 1 tin and just slice it in 3 layers? Or do you recommend something else?
Oh gosh I am not sure – I would say it would be too thin for three layers as the volume difference between the size tins is about 1/3! It should do two layers though x