Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake

Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake- a light yellow sponge cake filled with orange curd and covered in chocolate icing with Easter decoration on top. Cadbury's Flake and Cadbury's Mini Eggs are used for the cake decoration. Perfect to serve on Easter Sunday.

Chocolate orange Easter nest cake with a slice taken out

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When Easter's coming up, the thing that gets me in the Easter mood is definitely Cadbury's mini Eggs. They are the perfect treat. Crack the shell with your teeth and crunch the pieces and then let the chocolate  melt in your mouth- yum! I like them far more than Creme Eggs, which although nice, are sickly sweet and you have to eat the whole thing. I have vivid memories of my mum bringing home those little Cadbury Easter Nest cakes, that had vertical lines of buttercream inside and one Mini Egg on top and us eating them as an after-school treat.

With that in mind, I have been determined all week to make a big Easter Nest Cake with Mini Eggs, and I really wanted it to be chocolate orange. My search for orange curd took over a week and 5 supermarkets before my husband finally found some on an off-chance visit in the 6th supermarket! I know it's not too tricky to make citrus curd, but I had a really busy week on, plus a nasty cough developing, and time was of the essence!

This Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake recipe makes a really moist buttery sponge and it has a thick chocolate icing covering it. I put the orange curd through the middle with a thin layer of the chocolate icing,  but I think you could just use a thicker layer of the orange and leave the chocolate out. If you're not an orange fan, you'll need something to cut through the sweetness of the chocolate, some plain cream cheese icing might work. The icing is seriously glossy and chocolatey and looks very impressive when you spread it across the top.

It's a very easy cake to put together, so give it a try as an Easter treat if you have family coming round this year!

Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake and a slice of cake on a white plate

Make Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake


Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake covered in icing

Sandwich the two cakes together with orange curd and then cover the top with the glossy chocolate buttercream.
Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake with icing and Cadubry's flake nest

Crumble the Cadbury's Flake over the top, making sure there are plenty of chunky pieces.
                          Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake with Cadbury's mini eggs
Lay the Cadbury's Mini Eggs on the centre of the cake.


A slice of Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake
Slice the cake- Just look at that buttery, crumbly sponge!

Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake with a slice taken out

A slice of Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake



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Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake

Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake- a light yellow sponge cake filled with orange curd and covered in chocolate icing with Easter decoration on top. Cadbury's Flake and Cadbury's Mini Eggs are used for the cake decoration. Perfect to serve on Easter Sunday.
prep time: 10 minscook time: 45 minstotal time: 55 mins

ingredients:

For the cake
  • 300g plain flour
  • 300g caster sugar
  • 120g unsalted butter, softened
  • 3 eggs
  • 280ml milk
  • 3 tbsp orange curd
  • 3 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp salt
For the icing
  • 55g butter
  • 50g dark chocolate
  • 180g icing sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • 50g Cadbury Mini Eggs
  • 2 Cadbury Flakes

instructions

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 (160 fan, gas mark 4)
  2. Cream the butter and sugar together until smooth.
  3. Add all the other cake ingredients, except the curd, and mix together with a hand blender until completely combined.
  4. Grease and line two 9 inch cake tins and pour the mixture evenly between them.
  5. Bake for 22-25 mins at or until a knife comes out of the centre clean.
  6. Leave the cakes to cool for 15 mins in the tins and then turn onto cooling racks (this should stop the cake sticking to the rack).
  7. While they cool, melt the butter for the icing in a small saucepan with the chocolate.
  8. Take off the heat and stir the icing sugar into the melted mixture until you have a very thick consistency.
  9. Add 1 tbsp of the milk and stir until the mixture loosens. If this gets you the consistency that you want, don't worry about adding the second tbsp. If not, go ahead and mix the second one through.
  10. Use a hand whisk to get the icing really light and smooth.
  11. Spread the orange curd thickly over one side of the cooled cake.
  12. Lift the other cake on top and begin spreading the icing over the top with a knife. Move excess mixture over the edges and spread round until the whole cake is covered.
  13. Crumble the two flakes in a circle around the middle of the cake. Try not to crumble too much, so it looks more nest-like.
  14. Place the Mini Eggs in the space in the middle. Press gently so that they will stick to the icing.
calories
446
fat (grams)
16
sat. fat (grams)
10
carbs (grams)
68
protein (grams)
6
sugar (grams)
50
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