Easter Cake – Feasting Is Fun

Mini Egg Bundt Cake

Easter is almost here and with it comes Spring here in the U.K. Finally, longer days, more sunshine, bright yellow daffodil blooms in the hedgerows and, an abundance of Easter eggs in the shops. Whether large or small, eggs remind us of new life at this time of year. So, this Mini Egg Bundt Cake is the perfect bake to eat and celebrate, with friends and family this Easter.

Chocolate mini eggs are an extra special treat at Easter. Cadbury’s chocolate is encased in pastel coloured, crisp, vanilla shells, resulting is the most delicious flavour! And so the flavour of the cake sponge takes it’s vanilla notes directly from the shell of the mini eggs, as does the vanilla chocolate drizzle. Resulting in a light, vanilla cake that compliments the mini chocolate eggs that adorn it.

Beautiful Bundt Cakes

I adore baking with Bundt cake tins. Their beautiful detailing means that, once baked, the cake has a distinct hole in the centre, alongside elegant detailing on the outside of the cake. Here, in the U.K. Nordicware.com who make Bundt pans as well as a whole range of kitchen bakeware, own the trademark “Bundt”. Therefore, for a cake to legally be called a Bundt cake, it must be baked in Nordic Ware Bundt Pan.

And, in my baking, I wouldn’t consider using copies of true Bundt pans, nor would I recommend it. Since Nordic Ware Bundt pans come with a lifetime guarantee. So, I recommend looking after your Bundt pans, as they will give you years of beautiful, baked Bundt cakes. And, should any issues arise, simply contact Nordic Ware. Recently, I had a pan replaced by them, due to an issue that had been present since it’s first use. Finally, I should say that this post is not sponsored by Nordic Ware, I just love their Bundt pans and highly recommend them!

EASTER MINI EGG BUNDT CAKE – serves 8 – 10

For The Bundt cake:

225g/8oz Unsalted Butter at room temperature

225g/8oz Caster Sugar

4 Large Free Range Eggs

1tbsp Vanilla Bean Paste – I use Vanilla Mart

alternatively substitute vanilla extract (1tbsp)

225g Plain White Flour

1/4tsp Salt – I use Maldon

2tsp Baking Powder

For The Chocolate Drizzle:

100g/4oz White Chocolate

50mls/2tbsp + 1tsp Double Cream (heavy cream)

1tsp Vanilla Bean Paste

For Cake Decoration:

1 large packet of Cadbury’s Mini Eggs (296g)

Gel food colouring – I use Wilton

To Make This Cake – you will need a 6 cup Bundt pan (the size is embossed on the outside of the pan). Alternatively, for a 10 cup pan increase the ingredients by half again. Also, you will need either cake release spray or, my preferred method brush melted butter liberally on every part of the inside of the pan and then dust with plain flour, tapping any excess flour out over the sink.

2 images of the Anniversary Bundt pan, one of the outside, the second shows the inside prepared with butter and flour so the cake batter does not stick during baking. — The Anniversary Bundt pan, prepared for use.

Preheat the oven to 170C/150C fan, gas mark 3, 325F.

Making And Baking The Vanilla Bundt Cake Sponge:

First of all place the sugar, butter and 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract into a large bowl.
Whisk together the ingredients until they pale and creamy.
Next, crack all 4 eggs into the same bowl. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt on top of the eggs.
Whisk all of the wet and dry ingredients together until you have a smooth batter. Take cake not to over whisk as this can result in a heavy cake.
Spoon the cake batter into the prepared Bundt pan, ensuring the batter fills the pan by no more than three quarters full.

Place the Bundt pan into the centre of a preheated oven and bake for 55minutes – 1hour. The cake is baked when it is golden in colour and pulling away from the sides of the pan.
As soon as the cake is baked remove it from the oven. Place it onto a rack or trivet to cool, in the same position as in the oven.

After 15 minutes cooling, use a serrated bread knife, trim any excess cake that covers the central hole. This will allow the cake to release easily when turned out.
Turn the Bundt cake out on to a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.

Preparing And Using The Chocolate Drizzle

Chop up the milk chocolate and place in a heatproof bowl, then add the cream.
Pour approximately 5 cm of water into a small saucepan, then place the heatproof bowl on top of the saucepan, ensuring that it does not touch the water.
Place the saucepan on a medium heat and stir the chocolate and cream together until all the white chocolate has melted and combined with the cream.
Remove the bowl from the saucepan.
Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla bean paste to the bowl and stir to mix.
Next, use a skewer to dip into the colouring gel. Swirl the skewer into the melted chocolate until you reach your desired colour.
Leave the coloured chocolate to cool and thicken slightly.
When you are ready to decorate, place the cake on a rack over a baking tray, this is buy far the easiest method which I forgot to do! Alternatively, place the cake on to a serving plate, however, any excess chocolate drizzle will need to be removed with a spoon and some kitchen roll!
Start spooning the coloured chocolate on top of the Bundt cake, ensuring that it drips down the sides of the cake. Continue drizzling until the is covered on top, yet still has some uncovered sponge around the sides.
Leave for 5-10 minutes to set. During this time, if you have your cake on a plate, clean up any excess drizzle and wipe the plate with kitchen roll.
After the drizzle has slightly set move the cake on to a serving plate (for those who used the rack over baking pan method).

Decorating The Bundt Cake With Mini Eggs:

First of all, remove appropriately half of the mini eggs from the bag and place into a bowl.
Next, ensure the top of the mini egg bag is securely closed, hit the bag with a rolling pin a few times to break up the remaining eggs.
Start decorating the top of the cake with mini eggs. The chocolate drizzle should be slightly tacky and act like a glue, adhering the eggs to the cake. Because the chocolate is not fully set hold each egg in place for a few seconds, before moving on to the next mini egg. Including cracked eggs as you decorate enhances the finished cake.
Rotating the cake will ensure an even distribution of whole and cracked eggs on the top.
Finally, place the remaining eggs around the base of the cake, adding a few eggs to the hollow centre. See the photos below for guidance.

As soon as the cake decoration is complete, carefully transfer the cake to a fridge to fully set. Depending on the time of year, it should take between 2 and 4 hours, or overnight, to set.

Serving The Mini Egg Bundt Cake

To serve, remove the cake from the fridge and allow to come up to room temperature. Alternatively, if it’s a very hot day, remove from the fridge, slice and serve immediately.

If You Have Enjoyed This Easter Recipe For A Mini Egg Bundt Cake, You may Also Like These:

Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake

Chocolate Mini Egg Brownies

Brownies topped with bright, colourful mini eggs and a white chocolate drizzle. — Chocolate Mini Egg Brownies

Vanilla Mini Egg Nest Cupcakes

Cupcakes with chocolate piped nests filled with mini eggs. — Vanilla Mini Egg Nest Cupcakes

Easter is a time when we come together with family and friends, however for Christians it is also a time when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. While eggs symbolise new life, so does the resurrection of Christ. His love for us is beyond measure, which He shows by sacrificing His life, on our behalf, dying on the cross. If you would like to know more about Jesus, please see my post Important Stuff. Because the real truth of Easter is so much more than chocolate!

Whatever you are making, baking and creating this Easter, I hope that you have fun preparing and sharing your feast.

Sammie x

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Mini Egg Marbled Traybake

Finally, Easter is almost here and yet this year some things feel very different. Usually the shop windows are decked out with flowers, bunnies and beautiful springtime scenes, but not this year. And taking time to carefully choose Easter eggs for our friends and loved ones isn’t an option. Because we are all at home due to the Coronavirus. So, at the time of writing, we are in lockdown, only allowed out for essential food shopping, exercise and medical appointments. The world as we know it has been paused and it can feel overwhelming and scary. So for me, doing things that are relaxing and routine really helps. For example making and baking this Mini Egg Marbled Traybake Cake not only calmed me, it was very much appreciated by my family here at home too.

Easter chocolate and vanilla marbled traybake cake, topped with Cadbury’s mini eggs. — Mini Egg Marbled Traybake

Easter Baking Inspiration

Because certain ingredients are not easy to get hold of at this time I have added a few notes to the recipe to allow for this. While I topped this chocolate and vanilla marble cake with Cadbury’s mini chocolate eggs (with the addition of a few tiny Sainsbury’s eggs that I had), you can use whatever eggs you like, or can get. Since the beauty and fun of home baking is that you can make it your own. Alternatively, you could create an image of an Easter chick or bunny using mini eggs? Since the possibilities are only limited by your imagination and skill!

Easter themed easy cake bake. — Mini Egg Marbled Traybake

I love seeing the range of different Easter bakes that people make. While looking on Pinterest for inspiration, the beautiful pastel colours of Cadbury’s mini eggs always catch my eye. And it certainly helps that they taste so yummy too. I have used them here on my Chocolate Mini Egg Sponge Cake, a delicious Easter dessert centrepiece.

While this Easter traybake is cut into 12 large squares it can easily be portioned into small pieces. Because the cake is chocolate and vanilla marbled together, this bake is not overly sweet or heavy.

Mini Egg Marbled Traybake Cake – makes 12 large cake squares

For the cake:

275g/9oz Unsalted Butter

275g/9oz Caster Sugar

1/4 tsp Salt – I use Maldon

2 tsp Vanilla Extract – I use Nielsen-Massey

5 Large Free Range Eggs (if you only have medium sized eggs that’s fine, simply add an extra tablespoon of milk)

350g/12oz Plain White Flour (if using self raising flour leave out the baking powder)

2 tsp Baking Powder

2 tbsp Milk (whole or semi-skimmed are fine)

25g/1oz Cocoa Powder

For decorating the cake:

150ml/5fl oz Double Cream (heavy cream) – optional see note in decorating.

150g/5oz Milk Chocolate roughly chopped – use good quality chocolate with a minimum cocoa content of 30%

75g/3oz White Chocolate roughly chopped

Large Family Bag – approximately 300g/10oz Cadbury’s Mini Eggs, alternatively use your own choice of chocolate mini eggs.

Making The Mini Egg Marbled Traybake Cake

Preheat the oven to 170C/150C fan, gas mark 2, 300F.

First of all you will need a 22.5cm x 30cm (9in x 12in) deep baking tin lined with baking parchment.
Place the sugar, butter, salt and vanilla extract into a large bowl and whisk together until pale and creamy.
Crack all of the eggs into a separate bowl with the milk and beat together lightly with a fork.
Pour the beaten eggs and milk onto the creamed sugar and butter.
Next, sift the flour and baking powder into the same bowl.
Whisk or beat all of the ingredients together until combined.
Remove approximately half of the cake batter into a separate bowl.
Add the cocoa powder to one bowl and mix thoroughly.

You now have two cake batters to create the marbled traybake.

Using the picture below as a guide scoop the vanilla cake batter into the prepared tin in random dollops.
Next do the same with the chocolate cake batter, filling in the spaces.
Use a butter knife to swirl the two cake batters together, taking care to ensure the batter is even across the tray and reaches the edges.

Baking The Marbled Traybake Cake

Place the tin in the centre of a preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes.
The cake is baked when it springs back from a light touch in the centre and near the sides.
As soon as the cake is baked remove it from the oven.
Leave the cake to cool for 10 minutes in the tin.
Carefully remove the cake from the tin and place on a cooling rack.
Leave to cool completely before decorating.

Note – Making a chocolate ganache topping for the cake makes it easier to slice through. Alternatively, melt the milk chocolate and pour directly onto the cake. Also, when nearly set, score lines through the chocolate to portion the cake, this will make cutting it once set easier.

Icing The Marbled Traybake

First of all make the milk chocolate ganache. Place the chopped milk chocolate and cream into a bowl set over a saucepan with a small amount of simmering water in the bottom. Importantly, make sure the base of the bowl does not touch the water. Stir the chocolate and cream together until fully melted and combined. Remove the bowl from the saucepan and set aside to cool slightly.
Place the white chocolate in a heatproof bowl a zap in the microwave for 20 seconds at a time, stirring in between, until fully melted. Pour the melted chocolate into a small piping bag. Alternatively, you can use a teaspoon to drizzle the white chocolate onto the cake.
As soon as the cake is cooled it can be decorated. Pour the milk chocolate ganache onto the centre of the cake. Continue pouring evenly towards the edges until the top of the cake is covered.

Pipe or drizzle white chocolate lines onto the chocolate ganache before it sets. Use a skewer to marble both chocolates together.
Also, use a skewer to mark out the cake portions by drawing lines through the chocolate.

Decorating The Mini Egg Marbled Traybake

While the chocolate is still unset add the mini eggs in whatever pattern you choose.
Scoring the portions before adding the mini eggs really does make slicing the cake, once set, easier. Have you ever tried to cut through a chocolate mini egg?!
Place the decorated traybake into a fridge for at least an hour to fully set.
As soon as the chocolate is set remove the cake from the fridge.
Use a clean knife to slice through each scored line, wiping the knife with a clean, damp cloth in between each new cut. Now cut around the outside edge of the cake, separating any excess chocolate from the side of the traybake.

Finally, run a palette knife underneath each cake portion and the baking parchment.

Mini Egg Marbled Traybake Easter Cake — Mini Egg Marbled Traybake

Place the cake squares onto a platter and share with your lockdown family.

Store in an airtight container in the fridge. For the best flavour and texture serve at room temperature.

If you have enjoyed this recipe for Mini Egg Marbled Traybake Cake you may also like these other Easter bakes:

Chocolate Biscuit Base Mini Egg Brownies

Golden Egg Chocolate Sponge Cake

Vanilla Mini Egg Nest Cupcakes

Vanilla mini egg nest Easter cupcakes. — Vanilla Mini Egg Nest Cupcakes

The True Importance Of Easter

While I really enjoy baking and sharing my bakes with others, Easter is the most important celebration in my year. Because, as a Christian, this is the time of year that Jesus’ death and resurrection are remembered and celebrated. Usually, Easter Sunday is a special time of thanksgiving and worship at church. Yet this year we will be celebrating in our homes, joined together as a church through an online service. Each of us celebrating and remembering the most important gift of salvation that is free to us all through Jesus Christ. If you would like to know more please read Important Stuff.

So, whatever you are making, baking and creating in your kitchens, have fun preparing and sharing your feast.

Sammie x

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Chocolate Honeycomb Sponge Cake

Fresh cream cakes and pastries are favourites of mine. Whether they are individual chocolate drizzled choux buns such as Hot Chocolate Fudge Sauce Covered Profiteroles, or a large cream filled sponge cake like my Strawberries and Cream Cake. While the whipped cream gives a delicious lightness to the cake, it is also not as sweet as other frostings. So, using it in this Chocolate Honeycomb Sponge Cake provides the perfect contrast to the rich, velvet, chocolate sponge.

Since receiving a bag of Art of Mallow’s new Honeycomb product, I’ve wanted to create something that would really show off it’s beautiful colour and toffee flavour. Also, having some leftover Lindt chocolate eggs from Easter provided inspiration for decorating the cake. Especially when they’re not available, the shiny wrapped truffle balls are! Finally, the use of dark chocolate as a contrasting drizzle keeps the flavours in balance.

FF Chocolate Honeycomb Sponge Cake — Chocolate Honeycomb Sponge Cake

So, put simply, this cake is incredible. Especially for those who prefer their cakes a little less sweet. And even with the addition of honeycomb, the overall flavour is balanced. Resulting in a cake that should suit everyone!

Recipe: Chocolate Honeycomb Sponge Cake serves 10-12

For the cake:

225g/8oz Caster Sugar

225g/8oz Unsalted Butter at room temperature

1/4 tsp Sea Salt – I use Maldon

5 Large Free Range Eggs

1 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste (vanilla extract can be substituted) – I use Nielsen-Massey

100g/4oz Cocoa Powder – I use Callebaut

125g/4oz Plain White Flour

1 tsp Baking Powder

To Decorate:

450mls/1 pint Double Cream (Heavy Cream)

1 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste

50g/2oz Dark Chocolate minimum 70% Cocoa

100g/4oz Lindt Chocolate Mini Eggs or Truffles/Balls

Honeycomb – I used a bag from Art of Mallow alternatively use a couple of Crunchie bars

Preheat oven to 160C/140C fan, 325F, gas mark 3, 325F.

Note: You will need 2 x 20cm/8″ sandwich tins at least 5cm/2″ deep. Most importantly, grease thoroughly with butter and line the base with baking parchment.

Making And Baking The Chocolate Sponge Cakes

First of all place the sugar, butter and salt into a large bowl and whisk together until pale and creamy.
Add all five eggs and the vanilla, then sift the cocoa powder on top. Whisk together until completely combined.
Sift the flour and baking powder into the bowl. Gently fold the flour in using a metal spoon until the ingredients are just combined. Because over mixing can cause the cake to be tough.

Divide the rich chocolate cake batter evenly between the two prepared tins.
Place the cake tins into the lower and middle part of the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes.
The cakes are baked when they spring back from a light touch. Likewise, an inserted skewer will come out clean.

As soon as the cakes are baked remove from the oven and place the tins on to a cooling rack.
Leave the cakes to cool in the tin for 15 minutes before turning out and allowing to finish cooling on the rack.

Filling And Decorating The Cake

While the cakes are cooling prepare the cream. Pour the cream and vanilla into a large bowl. Whisk until the cream just holds it’s shape. Fit a piping bag with a 1cm round nozzle and fill with half of the whipped cream.
Break up the chocolate and place in a heatproof, microwaveable bowl. Zap for 20 seconds at at time until the chocolate starts to melt. Remove and stir continuously until all of the chocolate is melted. Pour into a small, disposable piping bag and set to one side to cool.
Place a cooled chocolate sponge, flat side up on to a board or plate.
Spoon the remaining cream on to the sponge and spread to cover evenly.

Place the second sponge, flat side down, gently on top of the cream covered bottom sponge.
Pipe a small amount of cream on to the sponge, use a palette knife to spread evenly.
Now pipe swirls around the outside edge.
Add a Lindt chocolate ball or egg on to each swirl.
Snip off the very end of the melted chocolate filled piping bag and drizzle across the cake. Reserve some melted chocolate for finishing the cake.

Finishing Touches Make The Cake Extra Special

Crush the honeycomb using a rolling pin and sandwich bag. Aim for some larger pieces, rubble and golden dust.
Place the larger pieces of honeycomb just inside the piped swirls. Fill in the centre with the honeycomb rubble, reserving a couple of teaspoons to finish the cake.
Top the honeycomb with the remaining chocolates.

Finally, pipe more chocolate drizzle on top of the decorated cake, allowing some chocolate to drizzle on to the plate.
Finish with a sprinkle of gold, crushed honeycomb.

Refrigerate the cake for at least 1 hour to allow the chocolate to set and the whole cake to firm up.

Slice and share with family, friends and neighbours!

To enjoy this cake at its best, eat on the day it is made. Although, the chocolate sponges can be made a day ahead and stored in an airtight container. Finally, refrigerate eat the cake and eat within 3 days.

If you have enjoyed this recipe for Chocolate Honeycomb Sponge Cake you may also like these:

Raspberry Lemon Celebration Layer Cake

Chocolate Mini Egg Sponge Cake

Pomegranate Lemon Drizzle Bundt Cake

Unusually for me, I enjoyed two slices of cake. And, in the spirit of sharing, our Waitrose shopping delivery driver also went away with a generous slice. Since it is my firm belief is that all food tastes better when it is shared. Because, the sheer joy gained when giving someone an unexpected foodie treat, makes our own eating experience extra special.

So, whatever you are making, baking and creating in your kitchens, have fun preparing and sharing your feast.

Sammie xx

Art of Mallow kindly sent me a bag of their new honeycomb to review. All opinions and views in this post are my own. No part of this post may reproduced or duplicated without the written permission of the owner. Please see my Disclosure Policy.

Chocolate Mini Egg Sponge Cake

My Easter Chocolate Mini Egg Sponge Cake is a spectacular, yet easy to make cake that is the perfect centrepiece for Easter feasting and celebration. Rich chocolate sponge sandwiched together with whipped chocolate ganache and decorated with speckled Cadbury’s mini eggs. An Easter celebration cake.

Since Easter is only a week away it is impossible to miss the sheer quantity of chocolate and variety of eggs available in the shops. And having spotted the mini, micro eggs in Sainsbury’s last year which were used in these Chocolate Biscuit Base Mini Egg Brownies, I was delighted to see them in stock again this year for Easter baking! While Cadbury’s mini eggs are both beautiful and cute, the micro eggs are like their smaller cousins. Also, they are small enough to be used as the filling in a sponge layer cake.

FF Chocolate Mini Egg Sponge Cake — Easter Chocolate Mini Egg Sponge Cake

While this cake certainly has plenty of sweetness from the chocolate eggs, I decided to keep the frosting less sweet. Since chocolate ganache is simply chocolate and cream melted together and then cooled, it provides the perfect balance to the sweet vanilla coated, milk chocolate mini eggs. Also, it has the advantage of being whipped when cool. Resulting in a spreadable frosting that is also ideal for attaching eggs to the cake.

Futhermore, adding 6 whole, large eggs to the cake batter ensures a rich, moist chocolate sponge. Once filled and decorated this cake provides a real wow factor. So it is perfect for feasting, sharing and celebrating Easter.

Recipe: Easter Chocolate Mini Egg Sponge Cake serves 10-12

For the cake:

300g/10.5oz Unsalted Butter softened at room temperature plus extra for greasing tins

1/2tsp Sea Salt (halve if using free flowing) – I use Maldon

175g/6oz Dark Brown Muscavado Sugar – I use Billingtons

125g/4.5oz White Caster Sugar

2tsp Vanilla Extract – I use Nielsen-Massey

6 Large Free Range Eggs

200g/7oz Plain White Flour

100g/4oz Cocoa Powder – I use Callebaut

2tsp Baking Powder

For the icing and decoration:

250ml/9fl oz Double Cream (heavy cream)

250g/9oz Good Quality Dark Chocolate minimum 70% Cocoa Solids

2 x 328g Cadbury’s Mini Eggs or similar – this quantity is sufficient to fill and top the cake if needed

1 x 100g Mini Chocolate Micro Eggs available from Sainsbury’s

Method: Preheat oven to 160C/140C fan, 325F, gas mark 3

For this recipe you will need 2 x 20cm (8in) sandwich tins at least 5cm (2in) deep.

Making the chocolate cake sponges

First of all grease both sandwich tins and line the base with baking parchment.
Into a large bowl add the butter, salt and both types of sugar.
Whisk together until the mixture is uniform in colour. Whisking time approximately 5 minutes.
Add the vanilla extract and whisk to combine.
Crack 6 large eggs into the bowl.
Sieve the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into the bowl.
Whisk all the ingredients together. Scrape the side and base of the bowl with a spatula and continue whisking until thoroughly combined.

Divide the cake batter evenly between 2 tins, smoothing the surface.
Place the cake tins in the centre and lower part of the oven and bake for 50 minutes – 1 hour.
The cakes are baked when pressed they spring back from a light touch. Also an inserted skewer comes out clean.
As soon as the cakes are baked remove from the oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes in the tin.
Turn the cake out of the tin, carefully peel away the baking parchment. Leave to completely cool on a cooling rack.

While the cakes are cooling make the chocolate ganache.

Creating the chocolate ganache

Place a small saucepan containing 2.5cm/1” of water over a low heat. Allow the water to come up to a very gentle simmer over low heat.
Use a heatproof bowl and place on top of the saucepan ensuring the base does not touch the water.
Add the cream and chocolate to the bowl and stir.
As soon as the chocolate has completely melted remove the bowl and set to one side to cool. Placing on a windowsill with the window slightly open will help the ganache cool more quickly.
When cooled whisk the ganache until thickened to spreading consistency.

Filling and decorating the Easter cake

Place a cooled chocolate sponge, flat side down, on to a plate or board.
Spoon half of the chocolate ganache on to the cake and spread to cover to the cake edge.

Use micro eggs (alternatively use Cadbury’s mini eggs) and place around the edge of the cake, pressing into the ganache to secure them.
Fill in the surface of the cake with the remaining eggs.
Place the second sponge, flat side down, on top of the decorated bottom sponge.

Spoon the remaining ganache on to the top of the cake. Spread the ganache so that it covers evenly.
Cover the top of the cake with Cadbury’s mini eggs. Let your creative juices flow! Most of all ensure the eggs are pressed firmly into the ganache to secure.

Place the cake into a fridge for an hour to firm up the ganache.

Slicing the cake is easier once it has been chilled.

Slice with a sharp knife dipped in a jug of hot water and wiped dry after each cut. Doing so creates cleanly cut slices of cake, ready to be served.

Store any remaining cake wrapped well in cling film and refrigerated. Eat within 3 days.

The cakes can be made a day ahead and stored wrapped in baking parchment in an airtight container.

If you have enjoyed this recipe for Easter Chocolate Mini Egg Sponge Cake you may also like these:

Mini Egg Millionaires Shortbread

Golden Egg Chocolate Sponge Cake

Mini Egg Marbled Traybake

An Easter marbled traybake bake decorated with Cadbury’s mini eggs. — Mini Egg Marbled Traybake

Easter Sunday, for me is about remembering and celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, following His death on the previous Friday. If you would like to know more about this see Important Stuff .Although creating a cake that looks like a celebration is not that difficult to do. Yet, using pretty mini eggs with their speckled shells on top of this Easter Chocolate Mini Egg Sponge Cake makes decorating so easy. Especially as the eggs themselves represent new life. Both in the natural world of new birth in Springtime and through the love freely given to us in Jesus Christ.

So, whatever you are making, baking and creating this Easter, have fun preparing and sharing your feast.

Sammie xx

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Maltesers Malted Chocolate Loaf Cake

Easter was only a couple of weeks ago. Time flies. Yet fortunately, Maltesers bunnies don’t! Since I had these cute, chocolate bunnies leftover from Easter, I decided to bake a loaf cake and use them to decorate. While also having a large bag of Maltesers and a whole jar of Maltesers spread, the resulting Maltesers Malted Chocolate Loaf Cake is for Maltesers lovers everywhere.

Since my Double Chocolate Chip Loaf Cake recipe is very reliable, that is where this recipe started. Although a few ingredients were changed to suit the flavour of this cake. While still wonderfully moist, malt powder adds another level of flavour to the chocolate. And Maltesers spread, topping the cake in a thick layer, is all the ‘icing’ that’s needed. Finishing with crunchy, Maltesers adds taste, texture and fun. Resulting in a cake that tastes of Maltesers all the way through.

FF Malteser Malted Chocolate Loaf Cake — **Maltesers Malted Chocolate Loaf Cake** with added chocolate bunnies for Easter.

Finally, the addition tiny, white pearls echo the Maltesers crunch that is in the chocolate spread, on top of the cake.

FF Maltesers Malted Chocolate Loaf Cake — Maltesers Malted Chocolate Loaf Cake

Recipe: Maltesers Malted Chocolate Loaf Cake serves 8-10

For the cake

175g/6oz Unsalted Butter softened

175g/6oz Light Brown Sugar

1/4tsp Salt – I use Maldon

3 Large Free Range Eggs

1tsp Vanilla Extract – I use Nielsen-Massey

100g/4oz Full Fat Yoghurt

50g/2oz Cocoa Powder

2tbsp Malted Drink Powder – I use Horlicks

125g/5oz Plain White Flour

2tsp Baking Powder

To decorate

I jar Malteaser Chocolate Spread. Alternatively use your favourite chocolate spread

1 Large Family Bag or Box of Maltesers – if you are particularly partial to Maltesers add an extra bag!

Small pearl or silver edible balls

Optional – Packets of Maltesers Chocolate Bunnies, as many as needed – only available at certain times of the year.

Method: Preheat the oven to 160C/140C fan, gas mark 3, 325F

Making And Baking The Malted Chocolate Cake

For this bake you will need a 2lb loaf tin. Grease thoroughly with butter and line the base with baking parchment.

First of all sift the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder together in a bowl. Then add the two tablespoons of malt powder. This is the dry mix.
Into a large bowl add the butter, sugar and salt. Beat until the mixture is fully combined and has very few lumps.
Next add the three eggs to the bowl, the vanilla extract and also the yoghurt. Beat for one minute to break up the eggs.
Gently tip in the dry ingredients and beat slowly until all the ingredients have combined. Switch to a large spoon and stir, ensuring the entire cake batter is fully combined.
Since the batter is quite thick, spoon it carefully into the loaf tin, smoothing the top, for an even bake.
Place the tin into the centre of the oven and bake for 45-55 minutes.
The cake is baked when it is firm to touch and an inserted skewer comes out clean.
As soon as the cake is baked remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool fully in the tin.
When cooled, carefully turn the cake out of the tin, removing the baking parchment from the base.

Decorating The Loaf Cake

When ready to decorate, place the loaf cake on a plate or stand.
Using a palette knife, spread the entire contents of the Maltesers jar on top of the cake.
If using bunnies, these can be attached to the side of the cake using some of the spread.
Cover the top of the cake with Maltesers. Add as many as you can fit on.
Finally sprinkle over the tiny pearl/silver balls.

And, the finished cake!

To serve slice and serve with a smile.

Finally, this cake will keep for up to 5 days in an airtight container, on a planet where nobody lives.

Since it only lasted 2 days here at home!

If you have enjoyed this recipe for Maltesers Malted Chocolate Loaf Cake you may also like these:

Chocolate Marble Celebration Cake

Golden Egg Chocolate Sponge Cake

Chocolate Monster Mini Egg Cookies

Because Easter is celebrated once a year, these recipes are all designed to be adaptable. While Maltesers are easy to obtain, in the other bakes Smarties, M & M’s, or any other chocolate can be used. Yet, due to the liquid content of caramel, or creme eggs, it is advisable to freeze these, prior to using them in a bake. As a result any frozen substitutes will bake beautifully.

So, I hope that you had an enjoyable Easter and wish you all the very best with your making, baking and creating.

Sammie xx

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Golden Egg Chocolate Sponge Cake

Easter is nearly upon us. Shops are filled with fluffy bunnies, chocolate chicks and all manner of chocolate eggs. While surveying the vast selection, I found Galaxy Chocolate Golden Mini Eggs. And they are perfect for decorating an Easter celebration cake. Especially my Golden Egg Chocolate Sponge Cake.

The reason for Easter

Easter Sunday is the Christian celebration of new life. Although Jesus had died two days prior, hanging on a cross. Yet when His friends went to visit Him the following Sunday, the tomb where He had been placed was empty. Shocked and outraged, one of the women spoke to the gardener, wanting to know where He had gone. The response came “Why look for the living among the dead.”

As the prophecies had foretold, Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, had risen from the dead. He had overcome death. Forever. So that we, may have life, in Him. Hence the chicks and eggs, bunnies and lambs in the shops, represent new life. Gold, for me on this cake, represents the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Jesus. He who could not be contained by death. Even though He was brutally punished and died wearing a crown made from thorns. Is now alive, bearing the scars of death, yet as alive as you and I. Please see Important Stuff.

FF Golden Egg Chocolate Sponge Cake — **Golden Egg Chocolate Sponge Cake**

While celebrating over Easter, take a moment, to think about what it means to you. As you make and bake this cake, remember the love, His love, that He offers you. Even now, as Easter is treated as an extra holiday. Consider the real truth behind it. With Jesus their is always hope, without Him, who do you place your hope in?

Recipe: Golden Egg Chocolate Sponge Cake serves 8-10

225g/8oz Unsalted Butter softened

225g/8oz Light Brown Sugar

1tsp Vanilla Eaxtract – I use Nielsen-Massey

1/4tsp Salt -I use Maldon

5 Large Free Range Eggs

100ml Buttermilk

150g/5oz Plain White Flour

75g Cocoa Powder – I use Callebaut

2tsp Baking Powder

For frosting and decorating:

3-4tbsp Salted Chocolate Spread – I use Hawkshead Relish new MUDD spread

alternatively use a chocolate spread of your choice.

200g/7oz Unsalted Butter

400g/14oz Plain Icing Sugar

1tsp Vanilla Extract

2tbsp Hot Water – from a recently boiled kettle

2 x 80g bags Galaxy Mini Golden Eggs

Optional – gold/copper sprinkles

Method: Preheat the oven to 160C/140C fan, gas mark 3, 325F

Grease 2 x 20cm/8″ sandwich tins with butter. Line the base of each tin with baking parchment.

Making and baking the chocolate sponge cakes

First of all, place a sieve over a bowl. Then sieve the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder into the bowl. Set the bowl to one side. Dry ingredients.
Next, place the eggs and buttermilk into a jug. Whisk lightly using a fork. Wet ingredients.
Place the butter, brown butter and salt into a large bowl. Beat until well combined and free from lumps.
Next add the vanilla extract. Continue to beat until incorporated.
Take the jug of wet ingredients and pour on to the butter mixture. Then add the sifted dry ingredients.
Beat the ingredients in the bowl gently, scraping down the sides of the bowl halfway through. Continue to beat the ingredients until fully combined.
Divide the chocolate sponge batter equally between the two prepared cake tins.
Place the cake tins into the centre of the preheated oven and bake for 40-50 minutes.

The cakes are baked when they spring back from a light touch and a cake tester comes out clean.
As soon as the cakes are baked remove them from the oven.
Allow the cakes to cool in the tin for 20 minutes and then tip them out on to a cooling rack.
Once cooled carefully remove the baking parchment from the base of each cake.

Making the frosting and decorating the cake:

While the cakes are cooling the buttercream frosting can be made.
Place the butter into a large bowl, or the bowl of a free standing mixer with paddle attachment.
Next add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Now whisk or beat the butter until it is softer and pale.
Add all of the icing sugar to the bowl and 2 tablespoons of very hot water.
Start mixing very slowly and then as the butter and icing sugar start to combine increase the mixing speed. Continue until the frosting is light and fluffy.
Fit a large icing bag with a large closed star, or drop flower piping nozzle. I have a Wilton #2D piping nozzle.
Fill the piping bag with the whipped buttercream.
Place the bottom of the cake on to a plate.
Spread the Salted Chocolate Spread over the cake. Follow by piping the buttercream so that it covers the spread. Start at the outside edge of the cake, piping in circles until the centre is reached.
Place the top of the cake evenly on to the bottom.

Pipe buttercream on to the top of the cake, in the same way the base was covered.
And then pipe 6 swirls, slightly set in from the edge of the cake. See the photograph below.

Finally, decorate the top of the cake with the mini golden eggs and sprinkles.

And the cake is now ready to be served.

Serve with a smile to friends and family. Alternatively gift the cake to someone special.

This cake will keep in an airtight container for up to 5 days. Refrigerate is the weather is hot.

If you have enjoyed this Easter recipe for Golden Egg Chocolate Sponge Cake you may also like these:

Vanilla Mini Nest Egg Cupcakes

Hot Cross Buns

Chocolate Monster Mini Egg Cookies

While celebrating Easter is especially important to me, having a real, everyday relationship with Jesus is more important. Rather than dealing with life on my own, He is always there. Because of what He endured on the cross and in His life, Jesus understands. So as well as being my Saviour, He is also my friend.

So, whatever you are making, baking and creating in your kitchens, have fun preparing and sharing your feast.

Sammie xx

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