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Chocolate Nest Cakes

These nest cakes are a great way to get children baking, and make lovely Easter presents. They are really quick and easy to make as they use the all-in-one method. Waitrose Farm Assured Eggs come from Columbian Blacktail Hens kept on approved family-run farms in small flocks. The hens are fed on a natural cereal-based diet, free from artificial yolk colourants.

Preparation time:
35 minutes
Cooking time:
10 minutes to 15 minutes
Total time:
45 minutes to 50 minutes 50 minutes
Makes:
 12 nest cakes

Ingredients

  • For the cakes:
  • 75g Stork Margarine, plus extra for greasing
  • 75g caster sugar
  • 1 Waitrose Farm Assured Columbian Blacktail Free Range Medium Egg
  • 150g self-raising flour, sifted
  • Grated rind and juice of 1 orange
  • For the chocolate butter cream:
  • 125g Stork Margarine, plus extra for greasing
  • 225g icing sugar
  • 125g Green and Black's Maya Gold Organic Chocolate, melted and cooled slightly
  • 36 Cadbury's Chocolate Mini Eggs

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C, gas mark 6. To make the cakes, line a 12-hole bun tin with paper cake cases. Put the margarine in a large mixing bowl and add the sugar, egg and sifted flour. Beat with a wooden spoon or an electric whisk for 1 minute until pale and fluffy. Stir in the orange rind and juice.
  2. Spoon the mixture equally between the bun tins and bake for 10-15 minutes, until risen and golden. Remove the cakes from the tin and cool on a wire rack.
  3. To make the butter cream, put the margarine in a large mixing bowl and sift in the icing sugar. Beat well until combined, then stir in the melted chocolate.
  4. Place one of the cakes on a board and coat the sides and the top with the chocolate butter cream. Using a fork, make the icing into a nest shape and give it a rough, twig-like texture. Make a slight well in the top. Repeat with the remaining cakes and butter cream, and sit three of the mini eggs in the well of each cake.

Cook's tips

Store in an airtight container and eat within three days.

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Nutritional Info

Typical values per serving:
Energy 331.0kcal
Fat 17.3g

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This recipe was first published on Waitrose.com in March 2001