Simple Mini Egg Easter Cake

It's not hard to make this simple mini egg Easter Cake. If you want to make an Easter cake but without chocolate egg overload then this easy recipe for a simple vanilla flavoured cake topped with vanilla buttercream and mini eggs is just what you need. There are even a few mini eggs inside the cake!

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine British

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 1 10

Cooling time 1

Total Time 1 40

Servings

Calories 579kcal

Author Corina Blum

Ingredients

175 g unsalted butter at room temperature
150 g caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
250 g self-raising flour
3 eggs
1 tablespoon milk
85 g mini eggs

Ingredients for the Topping

75 g butter
150 g icing sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
25 mini eggs

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 150C.
Grease and line an 18cm cake tin.

To make in a stand mixer

Put all the ingredients except the mini eggs into the mixer bowl. Beat on a low setting until the ingredients have formed a batter then increase the speed and beat for minute.
Go to step 2 below

To mix the cake by hand

Put the soft butter, sugar and vanilla in a large mixing bowl and cream together. Beat the eggs in one by one. Then fold in the flour.
Put the cake batter into the cake tin. Put the mini eggs on top of the cake, spread out evenly.
Bake the cake in the centre of the preheated oven. Check it after an hour. If a skewer comes out almost clean then it is ready. It may need a little longer so check it again after another 10 minutes. This cake took 70 minutes.
Let the cake cool on a wire rack for at least an hour before decorating with buttercream.
Sift the icing sugar and put all the ingredients for the buttercream into a food processor or stand mixer. Mix until smooth.
Put the buttercream into a piping bag and pipe nests of buttercream onto the cake. If you don't have a piping bag, just put the buttercream in a plastic food bag and cut the corner off. Squeeze it out onto the cake. Decorate with the mini eggs.

Notes

Nutritional information is approximate and a guideline only.

I didn't use all the buttercream so the calorie count for this recipe will be a little inaccurate. Use more or less butter cream depending on your family's tastes.

Nutrition

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