Chocolate mini egg cake

Name: Chocolate mini egg cake
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 175 g Essential Unsalted Dairy Butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 165 g Essential Self Raising White Flour; 30 g cocoa powder; 1 tsp baking powder; ½ tsp fine sea salt; 175 g caster sugar; 3 Essential Free Range White Eggs, lightly beaten; 3 tbsp essential Waitrose Whole Milk; 600 g Waitrose Madagascan Vanilla Icing; 80 g bag Cadbury Mini Eggs

Everyone needs a cake like this at Easter – simple, celebratory but with plenty of impact. We’ve used ready-made icing to make life easier.

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Vegetarian

Serves8
CourseCake
Prepare25 mins
Cook25 mins
Total time50 mins

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Ingredients

175g Essential Unsalted Dairy Butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
165g Essential Self Raising White Flour
30g cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp fine sea salt
175g caster sugar
3 Essential Free Range White Eggs, lightly beaten
3 tbsp essential Waitrose Whole Milk
600g Waitrose Madagascan Vanilla Icing
80g bag Cadbury Mini Eggs

Method

Preheat the oven to 180oC, gas mark 4; lightly grease the base and sides of 2 x 18cm loose-bottomed shallow round cake tins and line with baking parchment. In a bowl, combine the our, cocoa, baking powder and salt. In a large mixing bowl, use electric beaters to cream the butter and sugar for 2-3 minutes until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, 1⁄3 at a time, then fold in the dry ingredients until just combined. Finally, fold through the milk.
Divide evenly between the prepared cake tins, level the tops and bake for 20-25 minutes until risen and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool briefly in the tins, then carefully transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Beat the icing in a bowl with a wooden spoon to loosen, then transfer to a piping bag. Cut a hole measuring about 1.5cm at the bottom. Put one of the cakes on a stand or plate and hold the bag vertically with the nozzle close to the surface. Squeeze a little icing out to make a dot, then lift up sharply. Continue to do this all over the cake, then top with the second cake and repeat. Arrange the Mini Eggs over the top and serve immediately.