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Easter cake

Chocolate Easter Egg Cake

This is the best chocolate cake you will make this year. its just a bonus you can have it for Easter! Australian Cups are used in this recipe
5 from 1 vote
Servings 12

Ingredients
  

  • 450 gm plain flour 3 cups
  • 600 gm caster sugar 3 cups
  • 90 gm dark cocoa powder 3/4 cup
  • 3 teaspoons baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 125 ml oil 1/2 cup
  • 400 ml buttermilk 1 1/4 cups
  • 4 large eggs
  • vanilla

Buttercream

  • 500 gm butter - unsalted softened
  • 250 gm cream cheese softened
  • 200 gm white chocolate melted
  • 300 gm icing sugar

Strawberry Paint

  • 1 cup of strawberry jam
  • 60 ml lemon Juice 1/4 cup
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 Colours : I used yellow x 3 shades of paste and pink for the middle..
  • 2 packets Eggs mixed colours

Instructions
 

  • You'll need two spring form tins 20 cm (8 inches) set the oven to 180 C / 350 F.
  • To make the cake add all of the dry ingredients and mix. Add the wet ingredients into a bowl and give it a whisk. Stir the two mixtures together till well combined. It will be quite liquid
  • Pour this into two lined tins and sit each onto a piece of foil (to stop leaks).
  • Bake approximately 1 hour. It could take longer. Insert a knife into the centre. it should come out clean or even just slightly damp when done.
  • Cakes are best chilled before cutting and decorating .
  • Cut each cake, evening off at the top by cutting off the round tops and making them flat. Then cut into two even rounds.( in half) Now you should have 4 cake rounds.

For the buttercream

  • Beat the butter and cream cheese till light and fluffy. Add the cooled chocolate, vanilla and the icing sugar and beat till light and fluffy.
  • Divide into 4 bowls. I coloured 3 shades of yellow and 1 a light pink. You make the colours you want or no colours at all.

For the Strawberry flavoured paint

  • Put the jam and the lemon juice into a pot and heat just till mixed ( or put into the microwave). stir till combined . ool a bit
  • Put down the first round onto a cake plate and paint with the strawberry jam. Then cover with 1/4 of the strawberry coloured buttercream filling.
  • Continue this until the last round. If you have strawberry jam left paint the cake with it just to hold some of those crumbs to the cake.
  • Start to buttercream the cake with the remaining buttercream you have. If making an ombre cake start with a light colour and smooth over before starting with the next colour in the space up from the last. Finish with the darkest colour then run a knife around the whole cake taking off any excess and smoothing over.
  • Decorate with your favourite chocolates and Easter eggs before chilling