Mars Bar Cakes (Mud Cake Hack)

5 from 2 votes

Mars Bar Cakes are delicious! Skip the hassle of the oven and whip up these no bake mars bar muffins saving your time, energy and effort!!

Prep Time10

Cook Time0

Set in fridge30

Total Time40

Course: Dessert, Snack, Treat

Cuisine: Australian

Keyword: Mars Bar Cakes, Mars Bar Muffins

Servings:

Calories: 303kcal

Use patty pan liners to fill muffin tin holes
Use a knife and chopping board to cut each of the mini mars bars into 4 pieces. Place these pieces in a small bowl and into the freezer. Note 5
Use s knife to scrape the icing off the top of the cake (discard). Then add the cake to a mixing bowl and use a spoon to break into crumbs.
Add milk chocolate to a medium sized heat proof jug and microwave for 2 mins. Stir when removing to ensure it is consistently melted.
Pour melted chocolate over caramel mud cake crumbs. Add the caramel sauce and stir to combine.
Remove Mars Bar pieces from the freezer, add to the chocolate caramel cake mixture and stir to combine.
Using 2 desert spoons, portion the cake batter into the patty pan liners evenly across the 12 muffin holes.
Place the muffin tray into the fridge.
Allow the cakes to set for a minimum of 30 mins prior to consumption. Store in a sealed air tight container for up to 5 days.

Note 1 You don't need to purchase the premium brand for these to work. You will find some supermarkets selling a very similar product under a different name. For example Aldi sells 'Titans'.
Note 2 This is a store bought caramel mud cake. It will come with caramel/chocolate icing which we scrape off.
Note 3 I recommend using chocolate melts. They are easy to use and melt consistently as they are the same size. You can also use chocolate bits or a block broken into pieces. I encourage your creativity if you want to try milk or dark chocolate for variety!
Note 4 This is simply caramel topping or sauce that you would use on ice cream. It brings that unique caramel gooey layer of the mars bars into our cakes.
Note 5 The flavour goal of the recipe is to bring to mind the experience of biting into a Mars Bar with these cakes. As such we don't add the pieces of mars bars to the chocolate the way we would for a mars bar slice. Instead, we want to preserve the chocolate, caramel and nougat layers and combine them prior to placing in the fridge. This way your cakes, will have chunks of mars bars in them which have not melted and mix in with the rest of the ingredients.