Caramel Apple Popcorn Cake

When throwing together random ingredients, sometimes it can go bad, but sometimes it can go reaally reaally good. This is that time.

Moist apple cinnamon cake, filled with a layer of caramel, caramel buttercream, topped with popcorn and drizzled with even more caramel.

Yeah you drizzle that caramel!

Ingredients:

Cake-
-180g unsalted butter
-180g light brown sugar
-3 eggs, beaten
-180g self raising flour
-1 tsp cinnamon
-2 apples peeled,cored and grated

Buttercream-
-250g unsalted buttercream
-500g icing sugar
-2 tablespoons caramel

Decoration-

-1 package microwave popcorn (I used this brand,Butterkist Microwave Sweet Popcorn )
-2 tbsp caramel

Preheat your oven to 180c and grease and line two sandwich tins with baking paper.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. 

Gradually beat in the eggs.

Sift over the flour and then add the cinnamon and fold in until just before incorporated.

Add in the grated apple and fold in until everything is combined.

Divide between the sandwich tins and place into the oven for 20-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Once baked, leave to cool on a cooling rack completely before decorating.

For the buttercream, beat the butter until pale in colour then gradually add the icing sugar and caramel until a spreadable consistency.

Spread a layer of caramel onto one sponge cake then top with half of the buttercream, sandwich on top the other sponge cake then spread on the rest of the buttercream.

Cook your popcorn in the microwave for how ever long the package tells you (burnt popcorn smells awful!)
then sprinkle all over the top of the cake.

Place the 2 tablespoons of caramel into the microwave for about 20 secs, enough so its easier to drizzle.

Then drizzle that caramel goodness all over the top of the cake, yum!