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easter cake

Ingredients :
– 100 g chocolate
– 100 g butter
– 2 eggs
– 175 g sugar
– 75 g flour
– a few packets of Smarties

Recipe :
1-Melt butter and chocolate gently together.

2-Mix flour, sugar and eggs together in a basin.

3-Add chocolate and butter mixture, then mix thoroughly.

4-Pour mixture in a greased or non-stick cake tin, then bake in a preheated oven, at a moderate heat.

5-Allow mixture to cool slightly, then arrange Smarties on top.

Advice :
If you want to make a sandwhich cake, cut the cake in half, spread with chocolate buttercream and put back together.

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Conflake cakes! Or Rice crispie cakes..
basically…

you get Cornflakes and put some in a bowl. Then You get chocolate, i would use milk choco personally, then you boil some water in a pan, put a glass bowl over the boiling water and put the chocolate in the glass, make sure you dont spill water in the chocolate as it spoils it.

Then mix together the melted chocolate and cereal and make sure all the cereal s covered. Then put a spoonful of the mixture into a cakecase..

then put a mini egg on the top of the mixture..

and finally put them in the frige to cool..

they taste great!

x ( they look like little bird nests, with eggs inside!)
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simnel cake

Ingredients
175g/6oz light muscavado sugar
175g/6oz butter, softened
175g/6oz self raising flour
3 large eggs
25g/1oz ground almonds
2 tbsp milk
100g/4oz sultanas
100g/4oz cherries, quartered, washed, and dried
100g/4oz dried apricots, snipped into small pieces
100g/4oz stem ginger, finely chopped
1 tsp mixed spice
2 tsp ground ginger
To serve
450g/1lb golden marzipan
3 tbsp apricot jam
1 egg, beaten
To decorate
flowers such as primroses, narcissi or violets
egg white
caster sugar

Method
1. Preheat oven 160C/320F/Gas 3.
2. Grease and line the base and sides of an 20cm/8in deep, round cake tin with baking parchment.
3. Measure all the cake ingredients into a large mixing bowl and beat well until thoroughly blended. Place half the mixture into the prepared tin and level the surface.
4. Take one third of the marzipan and roll into a circle the same size as the cake tin, place the circle on top of the cake mixture. Spoon the remaining mixture on top of the marzipan and level the surface.
5. Bake for about one and three-quarter to two hours or until golden brown and firm in the middle. If toward the end of the cooking time the cake is getting too brown, loosely cover with a piece of foil. Allow the cake to cool in the tin before turning onto a cooling rack.
6. When the cake is cool. Brush the top with a little warmed apricot jam. Roll out half the remaining marzipan to the size of the cake and sit it on the top. Crimp the edges of the marzipan and make a lattice pattern in the centre of the marzipan using a sharp knife. Make 11 even sized balls from the remaining marzipan and arrange around the edge.
7. Brush with beaten egg and glaze under a hot grill for about five minutes, turning the cake round so it browns evenly, so the marzipan is tinged brown all over. (You can also do this with a blow torch if preferred)
8. To crystallise the flowers, lightly whisk the egg white in a bowl then carefully brush over the flower petals.
9. Sprinkle over caster sugar so the sugar sticks to the egg white. Leave to harden in a warm place, such as a shelf above a radiator or in an airing cupboard, until dry and firm.
10. Carefully remove from the rack and arrange in the centre of the cake.
References :

Simnel cake is the traditional Easter cake, It is basically a light fruit cake mix. 1/2 fill a lined round cake tin with mixture, cover this with a layer of almond paste then add rest of cake mix. Bake as normal, Instead of icing the topping is a layer of almond paste and 11 balls of same, it is then flashed under the grill to brown
The 11 balls represent the disciples at the last supper
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I’ve found many good recipes from this website, further more, there are all about healthy food and cooked in a simple, unique way.
Hope you find it useful.

http://recipesforhealthyliving.blogspot.com/
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Not a cake, but I’ve had my eye on this for a while! http://londonfoodieny.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/fifth-avenue-shortbread/
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easter cake

Ingredients :
– 100 g chocolate
– 100 g butter
– 2 eggs
– 175 g sugar
– 75 g flour
– a few packets of Smarties

Recipe :
1-Melt butter and chocolate gently together.

2-Mix flour, sugar and eggs together in a basin.

3-Add chocolate and butter mixture, then mix thoroughly.

4-Pour mixture in a greased or non-stick cake tin, then bake in a preheated oven, at a moderate heat.

5-Allow mixture to cool slightly, then arrange Smarties on top.

Advice :
If you want to make a sandwhich cake, cut the cake in half, spread with chocolate buttercream and put back together.
References :

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