Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake

Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake- a light yellow sponge cake filled with orange curd and covered in chocolate icing with Easter decoration on top. Cadbury's Flake and Cadbury's Mini Eggs are used for the cake decoration. Perfect to serve on Easter Sunday.

Chocolate orange Easter nest cake with a slice taken out

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When Easter's coming up, the thing that gets me in the Easter mood is definitely Cadbury's mini Eggs. They are the perfect treat. Crack the shell with your teeth and crunch the pieces and then let the chocolate melt in your mouth- yum! I like them far more than Creme Eggs, which although nice, are sickly sweet and you have to eat the whole thing. I have vivid memories of my mum bringing home those little Cadbury Easter Nest cakes, that had vertical lines of buttercream inside and one Mini Egg on top and us eating them as an after-school treat.

With that in mind, I have been determined all week to make a big Easter Nest Cake with Mini Eggs, and I really wanted it to be chocolate orange. My search for orange curd took over a week and 5 supermarkets before my husband finally found some on an off-chance visit in the 6th supermarket! I know it's not too tricky to make citrus curd, but I had a really busy week on, plus a nasty cough developing, and time was of the essence!

This Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake recipe makes a really moist buttery sponge and it has a thick chocolate icing covering it. I put the orange curd through the middle with a thin layer of the chocolate icing, but I think you could just use a thicker layer of the orange and leave the chocolate out. If you're not an orange fan, you'll need something to cut through the sweetness of the chocolate, some plain cream cheese icing might work. The icing is seriously glossy and chocolatey and looks very impressive when you spread it across the top.

It's a very easy cake to put together, so give it a try as an Easter treat if you have family coming round this year!

Chocolate Orange Easter Nest Cake and a slice of cake on a white plate

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