Virgin Vegetarian: Easter Cake: a bit of fun!
This is just a bit of fun for Easter, to see if I could manage to make the beautiful creation from www.taste.com.au/recipes/amazing-chocolate-speckled-cake/6qtd4xou.
I know that you should make everything from scratch, but I have very little patience recently and so I bought 2 chocolate sponge mixes and 1 chocolate fondant cake mix for the base of the cake. The packaging is all recyclable cardboard, so environmentally I don’t feel as guilty.
I love playing with cake sculptures, and so the fun is usually on the creation of the piece rather than the actual cooking. Sorry!
In the end it was lots of fun with the children, messing around with chocolate! What more can you ask? Lol…
| Preparation time Less than 15 mins | Cooking time 90 mins | Diet Vegetarian |
| Pre-heat oven (dependant on the cake mix!) | Grease and line 3 round 20cm tins lined with baking paper | Portions Definitely 5… perhaps should be around 20! |
Ingredients
Cake
3 cake mixes with added ingredients of butter, cream and eggs
Icing
300g unsalted butter
270g of icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
100g white chocolate, melted
blue food colouring
Nest
1 individual portion of rice noodles
melted chocolate
Speckle mix
1 tsp cocoa powder
1 tbsp vanilla extract
Method
Step 1
Make the cakes according to the instructions on the packets. Leave to cool. Cut to size (3 flat cyclinder shapes).
Step 2
Icing. Beat the butter, icing sugar and vanilla in a bowl. Combine with the melted (but cool) white chocolate. Add the colouring, and mix thoroughly. Unfortunately I forgot that blue and yellow mixture would make green. Oh well!
Step 3
Nest. Take out the rice noodles and cover in melted chocolate. Form into a nest shape on top of a cereal bowl. Leave in the freezer to set.
Step 4
On each layer of the cake, spread out the raspberry jam and icing. Cover the cake and the smoothed cut edges of the sides. Put into the fridge to set. Finish the icing so you are left with a perfect surface.
Step 5
Mix the chocolate powder and the vanilla liquid together. Splatter the mixture over the cake to give a speckled effect.
Step 6
Take out the nest, and arrange it on the top of the cake with the eggs and the chicken or other chocolate decorations.
Step 7
Serve and enjoy!
Tips
Freezing the cake is simple. Cut the amount you want to save, and place it into an airtight container. It can be kept in the freezer for up to 3 months.
What I would do next time…
Cut the cake to a perfect cylinder shape before applying the icing.
Have more patience for the cake icing to set, and make sure all the chocolate cake is covered by the icing.
Here is what my cake should have looked like!
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