How to make a mini Easter egg cake
This mini chocolate egg cake is perfect to serve to your guests this Easter.
You will need:
• 250g butter, softened, plus a little extra, melted, for the tin.
• 250g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting.
• 225g caster sugar.
• Two oranges, zested.
• Five large eggs.
• One teaspoon baking powder.
For the drizzle:
• Two oranges, juiced.
• Two tablespoons caster sugar.
For the icing:
• 150g butter, softened.
• 500g icing sugar.
• One teaspoon vanilla extract.
• 180g full-fat cream cheese.
• Four bags mini chocolate eggs.
What to do:
Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Butter a Bundt tin, then dust the tin with a little flour, shaking off the excess. Beat all the cake ingredients, with a pinch of salt, using an electric whisk until you have a smooth batter. Spoon into the prepared tin, smoothing the top with a palette knife, then bake for 35 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out mostly clean with a few dry crumbs attached.
For the drizzle, combine the sugar with the orange juice in a saucepan, then reduce over a medium heat to a loose syrupy consistency. Prick the base of the cake all over with a skewer, then pour over half the syrup, adding the rest once it has been absorbed. Leave the cake to cool in the tin for 15 minutes, and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
While the cake is cooling, make the icing. Beat the butter with half the icing sugar and the vanilla extract until smooth and fluffy. Add the remaining icing sugar and the cream cheese and beat again until well combined; don’t overbeat or the icing will become runny.
Spread a thin layer of the icing over the entire cake, taking care to get into all the crevices, and then pop in the fridge for 20 minutes to set. If you are short of time, you can always put it in the freezer. Spread the remaining icing onto the cake in an even layer. Once iced, the cake will keep in the fridge for three days. Bring to room temperature before decorating and serving.
Stick the mini eggs all over the top of the cake.
• Recipe obtained from www.bbcgoodfood.com.
Read: Why lamb, chocolate and eggs are Easter traditions
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