Recipe n°45: Chocolate Easter cake

We can already hear the sound of bells coming in the distance. Yes Cindy, it's almost Easter! So this week if you don't yet know what you want to make as a dessert for Easter 2023, we have prepared an Easter cake in the shape of a chocolate bird's nest that will delight young and old alike. This is how to make an original Easter cake and above all: so good!

For icing and decoration, you can adapt it as you wish. Cindy and I went with chocolate LEGOs and crispy balls as eggs for the centre.

Come on, let's go for our Easter nest cake!

Ingredients for the cake:

• 200 grams of dark pastry chocolate
• 3 eggs
• 150 grams of butter
• 1 packet of baking powder
• 8 cl of coffee
• 150 grams of sugar
• 3 tablespoons of flour

Ingredients for the ganache:

• 100 grams of pastry milk chocolate
• 100 grams of liquid cream

We decided to make a ganache to garnish our Easter nest cake, but you can also garnish it with whipped cream, icing sugar or cocoa powder. 

Steps :

• Preheat the oven to 180°C.
• Separate the whites from the yolks.
• Mix the yolks with the sugar until the preparation whitens.
• Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie with the coffee, then add the butter.
• Once the mixture is well melted, add it to the egg yolk and sugar mixture.
• Add flour and baking powder and mix again.
• Beat the egg whites and add them delicately to the previous preparation.
• Pour into a buttered savarin mold.
• Bake 30 minutes in the oven.
• Once the cake is baked, unmold it and prepare the frosting.
• For the icing: melt the milk chocolate and the liquid cream in a bain-marie and pour it over the cake. 

For decoration, we added some legos from the  chocolate construction game and crispy balls from the Easter surprise box .

Tip: For the decoration of the cake, you can also use the eggs freshly brought by the bells. Ding, dong, bon appetit!