How could you celebrate Easter without a chocolate cake? Todays post is a simple cake recipe, specifically decked out for the Easter celebration.
Ingredients and Measurements:
All my measurements are in oz's because i have a real old fashioned scale.
12 oz of self raising flour
12 oz of caster sugar
12 oz of baking butter/margarine
6 oz of coca powder
6 oz icing sugar
6 large eggs
3 packets of mini eggs
1 pot of Betty Crocker 'Chocolate Icing'
1 packet of chocolate fingers.
Recipe:
So, i used a basic cake recipe from my mum, but i made triple the amount because they're 3 cakes stacked together.
PRE HEAT YOUR OVEN, MINE WAS ON GAS MARK 6
CAKE
1. add the butter and sugar to a bowl, beat together until a creamy consistency.
2. add the eggs, one at a time and beat together until mixed.
3. sieve the flour in small portions and fold into the mixture using a metal spoon.
4. separate out 2 baking pans worth of mixture.
5. add coca powder to the remaining mixture and fold in well.
6. place all cake tins into the oven for around 15 minutes (time is different for all ovens)
INSIDE BUTTER CREAM
While the cakes are cooking, take 6 oz of butter and put into a bowl, gradually add icing sugar until preference with sweetness. This will be added to stick the cakes together later, once they have cooled.
Once the cakes have cooled, paste the butter cream between each layer and stack on top of each other making sure its straight. Leave to rest for about 5 minutes.
DECORATING
Take the icing from Betty Crocker and begin to place all over the cake, it needs to be a thick layer because we are going to use it as glue for our decorations. Once all the icing is used, leave to rest for 5 minutes.
Take the chocolate fingers and stick them around the outside of the cake, this is going to create out basket/gate. Then take the packets of mini eggs and place them all over the top of the cake, as many as preferred. I USED 3 PACKETS!
Leave to cool in the fridge for around 1 hour, this will give the icing time to harden.
EATING
THEN EAT THE WHOLE CAKE AND ENJOY IT, ITS EASTER!
I hope you enjoyed this post, its my first ever recipe/baking post and i really enjoyed making it. If you'd like to see more comment below and they'll definitely be some more in the future!
Louise♥
