Chocolate Easter egg nest cakes
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- less than 10 mins
- Serve
- Makes 12
Brilliant to make with children, these easy chocolate cornflake cakes are a perennial favourite and the addition of a few mini eggs gives them a Easter twist.
Ingredients
- 225g/8oz dark chocolate or a mix of dark and milk chocolate, broken into small pieces (see Recipe Tip)
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- 50g/2oz butter
- 75g/2¾oz cornflakes or puffed rice cereal
- 36 mini chocolate eggs
Method
Line a 12-hole fairy cake tin with paper cases.
Melt the chocolate, golden syrup and butter in a bowl set over a saucepan of gently simmering water (do not let the base of the bowl touch the water). Stir the mixture occasionally until smooth.
Remove the bowl from the heat and gently stir in the cornflakes until all of the cereal is coated in the chocolate.
Divide the mixture between the paper cases and press 3 chocolate eggs into the centre of each nest. Chill in the fridge for 1 hour, or until completely set.
Recipe tips
If you're not keen on dark chocolate feel free to swap it for milk chocolate, or a mixture of both. Milk chocolate is much sweeter and when added to an already sweet cereal and mixed with golden syrup it can be too much.
Shredded wheat or puffed rice cereals can be used instead of cornflakes.
Store the Easter egg cakes in an air-tight tin for up to a week.
Mini eggs are a choking risk for young children. Place them in a food bag and use a rolling pin to break them into smaller pieces if this is a concern.
Chocolate can seize when you are heating it, so it's important to melt it very gently. When chocolate seizes the cocoa solids separate from the fat resulting in a hard grainy mass sat in an oily liquid. Cutting the chocolate into small even pieces helps avoid this. If your chocolate starts to look grainy, remove it from the heat immediately and stir in a teaspoon of boiling water. This should fix it (if it's further along, you might need to repeat the process with another teaspoon of boiling water to bring it back together). If your chocolate is severely seized, watch the 'melting chocolate' how-to video (below) for tips on how to make sure your chocolate doesn't go to waste.
