Chocolate Fingers Birthday Cake

• 7/8 cup butter softened
• 1 2/3 cups caster sugar
• 1 1/4 cups self raising flour
• 4 medium eggs
• 9/16 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• icing Nutella Buttercream
• 1 7/8 cups icing sugar sifted
• 7 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
• 2 tablespoons Nutella
• 2 teaspoons milk
• 3 chocolate packs of, fingers
• coated chocolates sugar
• Orange chocolate

1. Preheat oven 180C. Grease and line 2 x 20cm cake tins with greaseproof paper.
2. Add all of the ingredients into the bowl of a mixer and combine for a couple of minutes until smooth.
3. Pour the cake batter into the cake tins making sure you they're as even as possible. Bake in the oven for 20-25 mins until cooked. Place on a wire rack to cool.
4. Leave in the tins for 10 minutes, turn the cakes out onto a wire rack and leave to cool.
5. For the butter creamnlace the softened butter in the bowl of a food mixer, gradually add the icing sugar. Mix for 5 minutes. Add the Nutella and milk, mix again to incorporate.
6. Put the base cake onto a serving plate. Spread Nutella buttercream over one of the cakes then sandwich the two cakes together. Spread the remaining buttercream over the top and sides of the cake. Press the chocolate fingers around the sides. Decorate with maltezers, smarties and mini chocolate orange slices.

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Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Chocolate-Fingers-Birthday-Cake-1719916 (may not work)