Easter Baking!

 Easter Baking!

 

Happy Easter everyone! So this week I wanted to make cream egg cupcakes as suggested by my friend Eleanor, however I searched far and wide and found no cream eggs ANYWHERE. So instead I had to improvise and make cakes baked in an egg!

Cake baked in an egg may sound strange however, you are left with an egg shaped cake which is perfect for Easter!

 

 

So firstly you want to take your eggs and a teaspoon. Use the teaspoon to poke a small hoe in the top of the egg. Then pour the egg out into a mug, using a teaspoon to break it up and help it come out. Then wash the eggs out with water and put them in hot salty water. Whilst these are soaking, make a simple cake mix (I did 140g sugar, butter, eggs and flour) and add any flavouring you'd like. I did lemon and poppy seed because its a nice spring flavour. I also used the eggs that had come from the shell ( I used four).

 

After you have made the cake batter, dry the outside of the egg shells and coat the inside with oil. Then pipe the mixture into the shells about 3/4 full. With the left over batter, make some cupcakes with mini eggs inside!

 

Fold some tinfoil into a cupcake tray to make a nest for the eggs to stay upright in. Then bake these for 15 minutes in a pre heated oven of 200'.

 

It is likely that your eggs will over flow like as shown above but don't worry, once the eggs are cooled you can scrape the cake off.

 

Then once the eggs are completely cooled, peel off the shell and melt some chocolate. Dip the cakes in the chocolate then sprinkle over some popping candy and pop in the fridge to set, then enjoy!

 

Have a good Easter!