Chocolate Nest Cake, an Easter recipe, delicious and beautiful to bring to the table on Easter day. In reality, it’s a simple but delicious chocolate bundt cake dressed up and transformed into a nest with chocolate sticks and little eggs. If you wrap it with transparent paper and a nice colorful bow, it also becomes a gorgeous gift in place of the usual Easter egg. Try making it, and I am sure your guests will love it. Now, let’s see what we need and how to make the Chocolate Nest Cake.
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- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Economical
- Preparation time: 25 Minutes
- Portions: 6
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients
SIMPLE AND VERY SOFT CHOCOLATE NEST CAKE HERE’S WHAT WE NEED
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt (white)
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup sunflower seed oil
- 3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp vinegar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 packet baking powder
- flavoring (I use vanilla)
- 2 packs mikado sticks
- 1 pack sugar-coated colored eggs
- unsweetened cocoa powder (for dusting)
- nutella or hazelnut cream as needed
Tools
- 1 Bundt cake pan approximately 10 inches
Steps
NOW LET’S PREPARE THE CAKE STARTING WITH THE BUTTERMILK
First of all, put the buttermilk ingredients in a bowl, mix them, and let them rest for 15 minutes.
Beat the eggs with the sugar until they are nice and frothy, add the oil and faux buttermilk gradually, add the flavoring, cocoa, baking soda, vinegar, and sifted flour gradually. Mix everything well and pour into a greased and floured bundt cake pan. Bake at 350°F for about 30 minutes but adjust according to your oven and always do the toothpick test. Remove from the oven and let it cool well before decorating.
DECORATION
Spread some hazelnut cream and dust with cocoa powder, then start breaking the mikado sticks
start arranging all the mikado pieces randomly, and finally, add the sugar-coated eggs in the center hole.
Absolutely fantastic!!! Beautiful to look at, very soft, and delicious
