Easter Nest Cake

Easter Nest Cake

This cake is a bit different from a normal Easter cake but it's a tasty break from chocolate. We've used small Easter eggs to decorate our cake but you can use anything you like. For this cake you will need a 23cm/9 inch round cake ring or Savarin tin.

Ingredients

• 225g Caster Sugar
• 475g Butter
• 4 Eggs
• 275g All Purpose Flour
• 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
• 4 tablespoons Milk
• 3 ½ teaspoons Baking Powder
• 500g Icing Sugar
• Flaked Coconut as needed

Tools

• Oven
• Wooden spoon
• Kenwood Stand Mixer
• Tube pan - 10 x 4"

Method

1. Pre-heat oven - 160°C
2. Grease a clean tube pan
3. Add caster sugar, butter, egg, all purpose flour, vanilla extract, milk and baking powder to the Kenwood bowl
4. Fit Kenwood bowl to Kenwood Stand Mixer. 
5. Mix for 2 min, speed 12
6. Transfer content of the bowl to tube pan
7. Bake - 50 min, 170°C
8. Turn out
9. Let cool on round wire rack
10. Clean Kenwood bowl
11. Add butter to the Kenwood bowl
12. Mix for 1 min, speed 6
13. Then add icing sugar, vanilla extract and milk to the bowl
14. Mix for 2 min, speed 5
15. Spread
16. Decorate with flaked coconut
17. Serve