Recipe - Chocolate Nest Cake

FOR THE CAKE
6 ounce Soft Margarine
6 ounce Caster Sugar
3 Eggs, Beaten
6 ounce SelfRaising Flour
Grated Rind and juice of 1
lemon
2 ounce Plain Chocolate

FOR THE DECORATION
4 ounce Slightly Salted Butter
8 ounce Icing sugar, Sifted
4 ounce Plain chocolate
3 tablespoon Apricot Jam
4 lg Cadbury's Flake Bars
8 ounce Cadbury's Minieggs

OPTIONAL
Easter Chicks

Preheat oven to 190C,375F,Gas Mark 5. Put margarine, caster sugar, eggs and
selfraising flour in a bowl. Combine ingredients, then beat well until
mixture is light in colour and texture. Stir in orange rind and half of the
juice.

Break up chocolate for cake. Place on a plate over a pan of simmering water
until completely melted. Stir chocolate through cake mixture so that it is
streaked. turn mixture into a greased 9 inch ring tin and spread level.

Bake cake in preheated oven for 30 minutes until spongy to touch. Turn on
to a wire tray and leave to cool. Beat butter until soft, then gradually
beat in icing sugar and remaining orange juice.

Melt chocolate for decoration, as before, and beat into buttercream to make
a smooth mixture. Split cake in half. Spread both halves with jam and
sandwich back together.

Place cake on a plate and, using a small palette knife, spread chocolate
buttercream over surface, leaving it rough in appearance.

Using a sharp knife, cut flake bars into long pieces and arrange over cake
to give a nest effect. Fill centre of cake with Minieggs. Decorate with
Easter chicks if liked.

Source: CHAT Magazine

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