Chocolate Cakes for Easter

These Chocolate Easter Cakes look and taste brilliant. They’re easy to make, and are great presents – if you can bear to give them away!

Ingredients

140g of soft butter (leave it out of the fridge for a couple of hours)

140g sugar (golden caster sugar will give the nicest flavour)

3 eggs

100g self raising flour

25g cocoa powder

..and for the topping

85g milk chocolate

85g butter 

140g icing sugar

2 small packs of mini eggs

Equipment

A large mixing bowl and a wooden spoon

A sieve

Baking tray for 12 cases

Paper cases for the buns

A cooling rack,  if you have one.   

How to make your chocolate easter cakes

1.  Cream together the margarine (or butter) and the sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy.

2. Add the eggs to the mixture one at a time, mixing them in with your wooden spoon.

3. Switch on the oven to 190C / Gas Mark 5.  

4. Now to add the flour and cocoa powder to the bowl.  It’s a really good idea to use a sieve for this bit.   It gets more air into the mixture (more air = lighter cakes).  Hold your sieve over the mixing bowl. Pour in the flour and cocoa. Now tap the side of the sieve gently. Keep going until it’s all in the bowl.

5. Gently stir with a wooden spoon, until all the flour is mixed in.

6.   Put the paper cases in the bun tray. Fill the cases so they are three quarters full.  Don’t worry if you have some mixture left. You can always make a few extra cakes later if you want.

7.  Bake the cakes in the oven for 12 to 15 minutes. They should have risen up to the top of the case and should feel  ’springy’ when you tap them on the top with your finger.  

8.  Allow them to cool in the tin for a few minutes. Then take them out and put them on a metal rack or a plate.      

9.  Now to make the topping. Melt the chocolate .

10.  Cream the butter with the icing sugar. Then stir in the melted chocolate. You have now made the chocolate fudge topping – this is called ‘frosting’.

11.   Decorate each cake with the chocolate frosting and put the mini eggs on top.  Delicious!

Other Recipes

If you like chocolate why not try Chocolate Fudge Cakes