Easter Left-Over Chocolaty Cake
Are you left with so many Easter eggs from the celebrations and cannot possibly eat another egg...? This quick and easy home-bake chocolate cake recipe will use up those chocolate eggs, a piece of cake!
Ingredients
175g Unsalted Butter, (softened, plus extra for greasing)
175g Light Brown Soft Sugar
3 Eggs
1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
1 Tbsp Whole Milk
150g Self-Raising Flour
4 Tbsp Cocoa
1 Pack of Mini Chocolate Eggs, (to decorate)
Icing
150g Unsalted Butter, (softened)
150g Icing Sugar
2 Tbsp Whole Milk
1 x ½ Tsp Vanilla Extract
3 Tbsp Cocoa
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Grease and line the base of 2 x 18cm cake tins with baking parchment. Using electric beaters, cream the butter and sugar in a bowl for 3 - 4 minutes until fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then beat in the vanilla and milk.
2. Gently beat in the flour and cocoa, mixing until smooth. Divide the batter between the tins and bake for 20 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Leave the cakes in the tins on a rack to cool.
3. For the icing, beat the butter for 2 minutes until creamy, then beat in the sugar for another 2 minutes. Warm the milk in a small pan, then beat into the butter and sugar with the vanilla and cocoa until smooth.
4. Place one of the cakes on a plate and cover with icing. Sit the second cake on top and cover the top and sides with icing. Scatter the chocolate eggs over the cake and serve.
