Easter Sunday coincided with my parents' 29th wedding anniversary this year. So even though I never make a proper cake for Easter, this time there was an excuse to make one :) And again thanks to
Kelly-Jane I had these cute Cadbury choc eggs to use up, so I decided to make Nigella's
Easter egg nest cake from Feast. I checked the recipe twice and even read the choc cloud cake recipe, which is basically the same I was told, but still went on sceptically preparing this flourless(!) cake. It is very easy to make, you just melt the chocolate with the butter, then beat the egg whites with sugar. After beating the yolks with sugar,too, you add the melted chocolate and carefully fold in the whites. It took me longer to bake than the stated 35-40 minutes because I used a 22cm pan, that was what I had.
Since several people told me it was quite a rich cake, I only used some cocoa powder in the whipped cream for colour instead of another bar of chocolate.
The result? Hmmm, not bad, but I'm afraid it was too dense for me even without the chocolate in the topping. Everyone else loved it though, so no problem with that ;)
2 comments:
Your cake looks lovely :) I have made it a couple of times, and found it a bit dense as well, even though I have never thought that of the fabulous chocolate cloud cake. Cocoa in the cream sounds much lighter too, great idea!
KJxx
What a beautiful pic, so summery, festive and colourful!
xx
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