Chocolate Bird Nest Cake

Today I'm going to be showing you an extremely easy to make chocolate cake recipe with a twist. This Chocolate Bird Nest Cake would be great for Easter or any time you wish if you're like me and would quite happily eat mini eggs all day, everyday.

Ingredients

For The Cake

• 225 g Butter or Margarine 
• 225 g Caster Sugar
• 4 Medium Eggs
• 175 g Self-Raising Flour
• 50 g Cocoa Powder

For The Icing

• 75 g Unsalted butter
• 175 g Icing Sugar
• 45 g Cocoa Powder
• about 10 ml Milk or warm water

Nest

• 150 g Milk Chocolate
• handful cornflakes
• packet of mini eggs

Recipe

1. Pre-heat oven to 180ºC/350ºF/Gas Mark 4. Grease and line two sandwich tins.
2. Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs.
3. Fold in the remaining flour and the cocoa powder with a metal spoon.
4. Divide the mixture between the two tins and bake for approximately 25 minutes until golden brown. Remove from the oven and leave to cool before turning out on a cooling rack.  
5. To make the butter icing, place the butter in a bowl and beat until soft. Gradually sift and beat in the icing sugar and then add enough milk/water to make the icing fluffy and spreadable. Sift and beat the cocoa powder in to the icing sugar and use it to sandwich the two sponges together.
6. Break the chocolate into little pieces and place in a bowl with a little knob of butter. put the bowl over a pan with boiling water and wait for the chocolate to melt.
7. Once the chocolate has melted, you may need to add a splash of milk to make the consistency runnier. Add the cornflakes to the bowl and stir. 
8. Place the mixture on top of the cake and add some mini eggs to decorate.

I hope you try this recipe out for yourself because it's seriously delicious. If you have any other requests for food related posts or any posts at all, please feel free to let us know in the comments.

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alittlebeautyblog.