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chocolate 3 tier cake

Last month saw my eldest son turn 14. Surely I am not old enough to have a 14 year old child?! Where has the time gone? To celebrate he invited some friends over for an overnight and I made this whopping three tiered chocolate cake with the Lékué 3 Tier Surprise cake mould I’d been sent to review.

This cake mould is superb! It’s small enough that you can fit all three moulds on a single baking tray, but large enough so you get the impressive novelty effect of having a three tiered cake. The top mould is about the size of a very large cupcake, so it’s a great indulgent size for the birthday boy/girl.

Made from non-stick silicone, the moulds are oven, microwave, freezer and dishwasher safe and they come with a 10 year guarantee. The three moulds can hold a total 2000 ml of cake batter, so I scaled up my usual chocolate cake recipe to fit and I’ve shared it below.

Lékué suggest you could use this cake mould to make a hollow surprise cake made only out of chocolate. Simply melt 800 grams of dark chocolate and paint the walls and base of the mould with layers of chocolate and leave to harden. Gifts and sweets could be hidden inside the hollow chocolate shell for a novel birthday surprise!

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The cake moulds come in a handy cardboard storage box along with a colourful cardboard cake base, cut out glasses, lips and moustaches, some recipe ideas and some handy party tips. Everything you need for a crackin’ birthday cake in one box!

decomat kidsTo decorate my son’s cake I used the Lékué Decomat Kids kit. This kit comes with a 100% platinum silicone mat and four stencils. It does not, however, come with the Decopen you need to write on the mat in melted chocolate. I bought this item separately myself from our local department store and I love it! I wasn’t particularly impressed with the designs on the templates, but the mat itself in combination with the Decopen means any sort of design could be made from chocolate. Simply draw your design on the mat, leave to harden, peel off and pop on your cake/dessert! I am going to have a lot of fun with this!

Please note: it’s easier to keep the chocolate shapes in the fridge until you need them, as they warm and soften at room temperature. White chocolate especially doesn’t last very long, I discovered.

Lékué have sent me an extra Surprise Cake Mould set to give away to one of my lucky readers! To be in for a chance at winning simply fill in Rafflecopter entry form below. UK entries only please.

Three Tier Chocolate Birthday Cake

Three layers of gorgeous chocolate cake - ideal for any chocolate lover's birthday!
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Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings: 24 people
Author: Elizabeth

Ingredients

For the Chocolate Cake

For the Chocolate Frosting

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Instructions 

For the Chocolate Cake

  • Preheat oven to 190 C. Lightly grease the Lekue cake moulds and set aside on a single baking tray.
  • In a large bowl, combine the flour, bicarbonate or soda and sugars.
  • Combine water, cocoa powder and butter together in a medium sized saucepan and heat until melted. Do not allow to boil.
  • Mix vinegar and vanilla with the single cream.
  • Beat chocolate mixture, cream mixture and beaten eggs into the dry ingredients until well combined.
  • Fold in the white chocolate chips and spoon the mixture into each cake mould until each is 2/3 full.
  • Bake on a single tray in the centre of the oven for 30-35 minutes and then remove the smallest top tier. Return the rest of the cakes to the oven and bake for a further 10 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
  • Leave the cakes in their moulds until cold and then frost.

For the Chocolate Frosting

  • Beat softened butter, icing sugar, milk and cocoa powder together until the frosting reaches the desired consistency.

Notes

Leftover frosting can be frozen for later use. Alternatively, if you still have chocolate cake left a few days later you can whizz it up into crumbs and combine with enough chocolate frosting to stick the crumbs together. Dip in melted chocolate and decorate with sprinkles to make cake pops!

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  7. Lauren W

    It’s our 3rd wedding anniversary in August so a tier for each year would be perfect! The cake itself would be either a red velvet with cream cheese frosting or a chocolate fudge with chocolate orange ganache (our respective favourites!) The secret surprise idea is also brilliant 🙂

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  14. Lydia Houghton

    It will be my mum and dad’s 50th wedding anniversary in October so I would make a golden themed cake with gold shimmer icing and a big gold bow.

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  18. George Worboys Wright

    I’d make my other half a fun birthday cake but I’d have to think about what to put inside as the surprise! 🙂

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  26. Deborah Bird

    Well I always make cakes for the family and the next birthday coming up is my nieces 17th! So I would use it to make her a special cake, and probably decorate it with nail polishes etc.

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  27. Lynda Sanderson

    I would make all my cakes for the year and enjoy personalising them. I would start with my husbands retirement, then my grandsons birthday ……………. he’s ordered a chocolate cake and he loves fish. I will enjoy the research.
    Thanks for the recipes

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  28. Holly Boyd

    I would use it to make my sisters birthday cake, I always make something special for her and a bit different. Haven’t quite found the perfect recipe for this year but have a few months. Used coke and beetroot before as well as non edible glitter lol. Not the best cook but you can tell love goes into it.

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  30. Wendy Tolhurst

    I would make a rainbow cake – making each of the three tiers two different colours. It would be for my youngest daughter, Lauren’s birthday in August.

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  31. Patricia Avery

    I would make cake to help us celebrate our sapphire wedding anniversary (45 yrs.) this summer with a traditional iced fruit cake at the bottom for the grown-ups but with two top layers of gooey chocolate cake for the grandchildren as they all love it. I have so many photos of them covered in chocolate and enjoying every mouthful 🙂

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  44. Sue Carter

    It is my partners 50 the birthday soon. A 3 tier chocolate cake would go down very well at his party.

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  45. Lisa Ellison

    My daughter saw a picture today of a tiered birthday cake but it has holes cut out of the first two tiers and then filled with sweets, so when it’s cut into they all come spilling out.

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  47. Samantha Atherton

    It’s my little girls 3rd birthday soon and she’s let me know that she wants ‘a royal princess birthday’ so I’d make a very pink sparkly cake for her.

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  78. lesley stevens

    I would have to bake a three flavoured tiered cake – chocolate at the bottom, the middle tier being vanilla and the top tier a large after eight mint cupcake – oh and I would bake it for a very indulgent sunday afternoon treat at teatime when all my family are with me.

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  82. Keri Jones

    I would make a scrummy vanilla sponge cake tower filled with buttercream for my hubby’s birthday <3 x

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  87. Elaine Tonberg

    I would make a vanilla sponge with strawberry cream filling for my daughter because she loves strawberries & cream!

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  98. Liam Bishop

    I won’t lie, it would be for my wife and I would be eternally grateful if she would make me a chocolate cake, as she is the greatest baker I know and much better than I ever would be! 🙂

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  117. Elizabeth Gurney

    I’d make my wedding cake. We’re going totally DIY and this would really help me out – I’m not the most established baker so this would be of massive assistance in getting the three tier shape! Now can you also tell me how to ice, decorate, colour, design…

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    • Elizabeth

      Congratulations!! Yay for going DIY too. We went DIY with our wedding too, last January. You might be interested in my origami wedding bouquet tutorial – cheap flowers that won’t wilt! Let me know what you’re wanting to do with your cake and I might be able to fire over some tips.

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  134. Donna @Book Passion for Life

    I would love to make this cake for my 3 year old. I made her a curious George cake for her 2nd birthday last year and she loved it.

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  135. Miss. Lucinda Fountain

    I love the ‘Lékué 2 Tier Surprise Cake Mould’!

    I would make a 2-tier rasberry ripple sponge cake with pink buttercream fillings (in-between the sections) and White Chocolate ganache on top!

    This PINK Cake would be for a Summer party – as i am having friends round for a party in my big garden, having moved to a new house recently.

    Thanks so much for the recipe 🙂 and giveaway x

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  140. Edward Guerreiro

    A plain sponge cake (I say plain, but it would contain orange juice & zest). It would be for my mum, as it is her favourite cake.

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    • Elizabeth

      I’ve tried to make three tier cakes in the past using the cake tins I already had. It wasn’t easy and this new kit makes things so much easier to work with!

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  146. Caroline H

    I’d love to make a cake for my mum in laws birthday at the end of next month. I’d love to make three different cakes – a chocolate, a lemon madeira and possibly banana muffin in the little top layer.

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  148. Jessica Wilde

    An anniversary cake to celebrate the fifth wedding anniversary of my husband and I in August 😀

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  152. Laura

    As a non-competition entry, I love the look of this cake. The recipe is really similar to my mums favourite chocolate cake so I KNOW how good this would have tasted =) I hope everyone who had some enjoyed it!

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    • Elizabeth

      Thanks Laura 🙂 Everyone did! We even shared some of the leftovers with a professional photographer who came up to take our family portrait for an exhibition to be held during the Commonwealth games in Glasgow this year. She and her partner loved it too. Nothing beats a good chocolate cake recipe!

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  156. EMMA WALTERS

    def love the idea of a surprise cake with sweets on the inside. perfect for my son’s birthday x

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  157. Kat Lucas

    I would make a Red Velvet cake for my In laws as my mother in law broke her shoulder and I’m sure she would appreciate it

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  161. Maura

    Along with P (my son) I would make a fruity Father’s Day cake for hubby.
    We all Love fruit cake in this house (cats included!)

    Maura x

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  162. sam bailey

    Id make a choccie n whisky cake, In july i have 30 family members come to my house as it would have been my dads birthday and he loved a tot of whisky and also liked choc! so id do this for everyone to share his love!

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  166. Jenny Brady

    I would make a rainbow birthday cake with ducks on for my niece’s 1st birthday as she was born 10 weeks prem and is doing so well now!

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  167. jenny owen

    the next birthday in my family is my mums so she would have the honour of the first one 🙂 but i would make one for everyone 🙂

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  168. Caroline Standish

    This looks a great idea and even me – being a rubbish cook – could perhaps pull it off!

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  174. Val Swift

    Both my children’s birthdays are coming up so I would probably do sponge cakes with pink and blue icing

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  177. Danielle Stevenson

    My mum’s 50th birthday is coming up so I would make her an amazing cake with this mould 🙂

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