28th March, 2015
This was a nice Easter treat to bake while a friend was visiting. We entered into the realms of My Drunk Kitchen and almost ended in disaster.
We preheated the oven and lined two smaller tins to start. In a bowl we beat butter and sugar and then added the eggs one by one into the mixture. Next the flour, baking powder and cocoa was folded in to make a stiffer batter. We decided to add some smashed creme eggs into the mixture at this stage as well for extra chocolatey goodness.
This mixture was poured into the tins and put into he oven. As we used smaller tins and divided the mixture in two, we set the oven timer to just 15 mins to check on it. Somehow the oven went bananas and we smelt burning long before the timer went off! The top of both cakes was burnt black. Fortunately it was only superficial. With a knife we were able to scrape off the top burnt layer and leave the rest of the cake to cool while we made the icing.
The icing sugar and cocoa was weighed out and we added water slowly to the mixture to make a spreadable paste which was spread onto to the cooled cake. Finally we took a rolling pin to five creme eggs and smashed them to smithereens to top the cake.
Despite the mishaps, it was delicious. And unfortunately eaten too quick for photos. Whoops!
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