Chocolate Nest Cake

Chocolate Nest Cake

There shouldn’t be a reason stopping you from having cake or anything sweet. A special occasion like Easter is just another reason for people like me who has a sweet tooth to enjoy cakes or other sweet stuff. If you have a sweet tooth like me and you are thinking of making a cake this Easter than the chocolate nest cake is the recipe for you. I don`t know if this can be categorized as healthy but if it is once in while then who cares. Any ways enjoy this lovely chocolate nest cake recipe with or after your otherwise so called healthy lunch meal.

Ingredients

6 oz Soft Margarine
6 oz Caster Sugar
3 Eggs, Beaten
6 oz Self-Raising Flour
Grated Rind and juice of 1 lemon
2 oz Plain Chocolate

The Decoration:

4 oz Slightly Salted Butter
8 oz Icing sugar, Sifted
4 oz Plain chocolate
3 tb Apricot Jam
4 lg Cadbury’s Flake Bars
8 oz Cadbury’s Mini-eggs

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Put margarine, caster sugar, eggs and self-raising flour in a bowl.
Combine ingredients, then beat well until mixture is light in color and texture.
Stir in orange rind and half of the juice.
Break up chocolate for cake.
Place on a plate over a pan of simmering water until completely melted.
Stir chocolate through cake mixture so that it is streaked.
Turn mixture into a greased 9 inch ring tin and spread level.
Bake cake in preheated oven for 30 minutes until spongy to touch.
Turn on to a wire tray and leave to cool.
Beat butter until soft, then gradually beat in icing sugar and remaining orange juice.
Melt chocolate for decoration, as before, and beat into butter-cream to make a smooth mixture.
Split cake in half.
Spread both halves with jam and sandwich back together.
Place cake on a plate and, using a small palette knife, spread chocolate butter-cream over surface, leaving it rough in appearance.
Using a sharp knife, cut flake bars into long pieces and arrange over cake to give a nest effect.
Fill center of cake with Mini-eggs.