Easter with Liv!
Does your Family have any Easter traditions?
We always went off to my Nana's static caravan for Easter when I was Younger, armed with lots of chocolate from aunts and grandparents of course!
We have always done Easter crafts and an egg hunt with Liv. As she has so many people buying for her, some of the family get her little gifts instead of eggs. So far she has had some play make up and nail polish, a bunny teddy bear and a voucher for Chester Zoo, lucky girl she is!
She is off to my parents caravan for Easter this year so we have already started her Easter bonnet and fabulous chick glasses, what do you think?
We usually make some biscuits or chocolate nests with mini eggs in, but this year I have found three AMAZING looking Cadburys Crème egg recipes from Georgia's cakes. We have decided to give the cheesecake a try - it looks fantastic but fairly easy too with me not being the best baker!
Which would you like to try?
Cracking Creme Egg Macarons by Georgia’s Cakes
Makes 20-25 macarons
Ingredients:
5 large Cadbury Creme Eggs
125g icing sugar
65g ground almonds
60g egg whites
12g caster sugar
10g cocoa powder
100g double cream
100g dark chocolate, chopped up
Method:
· Sieve together almonds, cocoa powder and icing sugar into a bowl
· Whisk up egg whites and gradually add sugar in stages
· Whisk eggs until stiff peaks have formed
· Fold the egg white into the dry mix in 3 stages
· Fill a piping bag attached with a round nozzle
· Line a tray with baking paper and pipe £2 coin sized circles, leaving about a 2cm gap in between
each one
· Leave for about 20 mins to skin
· Dust with a small amount of cocoa powder just to achieve a slight pattern on the surface
· Turn on the oven to 135°C and bake for 10-12 mins
· Make the filling by heating the cream and pouring it over the chocolate and stir until the chocolate has melted in
· Leave the ganache to cool and thicken (stir every now and then)
· Once the macaron shells have cooked, remove from oven and leave to cool completely before taking them off the tray
· Heat up a knife in hot water and slice the Cadbury Creme Eggs widthways into 5-6 circular pieces
· Once ganache has thickened and is at a spreadable consistency, fill a piping bag
· Pair up the matching macaron shells
· Place a piece of Cadbury Creme egg into the centre of one side of the shell, and pipe a ring around it with ganache
· Sandwich the other side onto it to form the macaron – and voila. Delicious cracking Creme egg
macarons
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Cadbury Creme egg cheesecake by Georgia’s Cakes
Ingredients:
· 10 Cadbury Creme Eggs
· 6 mini Cadbury Creme Eggs
· 150g digestive biscuits
· 75g melted butter
· 750g full fat cream cheese
· 150g icing sugar
· 1 vanilla pod
· 300ml double cream
· White chocolate, melted
· Dark Chocolate, melted
· Caramel sauce
Utensils
· 8 inch cake ring or spring form tin
· Acetate
Method:
1. Line the inside of the tin or ring with some acetate - this will make it easier to remove the cheesecake after it’s been set
2. Crush the biscuits into fine crumbs and stir the melted butter in
3. Pour into the cake tin and press around the bottom of the tin so the whole surface is covered and compact
4. Put in the fridge to set
5. Chop 5 of the Cadbury Creme Eggs up into small chunks and set to one side
6. In a bowl, beat together the cream cheese, vanilla seeds from the vanilla pod and sifted icing sugar
7. In a separate bowl, whisk the double cream until it’s just started to firm up
8. Gently fold the cream into the cream cheese mix until it’s combined
9. Add the chopped up Creme Eggs and mix in
10. Take out the cake tin with the biscuit case
11. Cut the remaining Cadbury Creme Eggs in half - length ways - and arrange them facing out around the sides of the cake tin (use the goo to make them stick to the sides!)
12. Pour in the cheesecake mix and flatten off the top with a spatula or palette knife
13. Set in refrigerator for at least 1 hour
14. Once set, take out the fridge and remove the tin being careful with the outside of the cake
15. If applied, remove the acetate too
16. Drizzle over some white chocolate, dark chocolate and caramel sauce in a criss cross pattern
17. Cut the mini Creme Eggs in half - length ways and - arrange around the outside of the cheesecake
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Chocolate Crème Egg cake by Georgia's Cakes
Serves 20
INGREDIENTS:
· 5 Cadbury Creme Egg halves to decorate
· 250g butter
· 250g caster sugar
· 200g eggs
· 225g self-raising flour
· 25g cocoa powder
· 1tsp vanilla paste
For the buttercream
· 150g softened butter
· 60ml milk
· 425g icing sugar
· 75g cocoa powder
For the chocolate drips
· 50g double cream
· 40g dark chocolate
METHOD (FOR THE CAKE)
18. Melt the butter and mix in the caster sugar
19. Add the eggs and mix through
20. Then add the flour and vanilla and mix until incorporated
21. Divide equally into 2 x 6 inch lined cake tins and bake at 180°C for 30-40 minutes until they are cooked through
22. Leave to cool on cooling racks
METHOD (FOR THE BUTTERCREAM)
1. Beat together the icing sugar, cocoa powder, butter and milk
2. Keep beating until the mixture is light and fluffy
METHOD (FOR THE ASSEMBLY)
1. Level each cake off on the top and cut both in half so you have 4 equal layers of cake. Make sure you save one of the ‘bottoms’ as the last layer
2. Spread a layer of buttercream onto one layer and place the second layer on top
3. Repeat on the second and third layer. When you get to the fourth, make sure the top layer is facing down so you have the flattest side on the top
4. Place the last layer on and encase the whole cake with buttercream
5. Scrape off the excess buttercream and leave in the fridge/ freezer until the buttercream is set firm
6. Heat up the cream and pour over the dark chocolate and mix until it’s melted through
7. Pour this melted chocolate mixture over the cake and push towards the edges with a palette knife. Let it gently drip down the cake
8. Use the leftover buttercream to assemble the top of the cake, placing 5 Cadbury Creme Egg halves on top alongside meringue kisses
I found a quick video for this one which may help if you are giving it a try.
Please share your work if you do attempt any of the recipes!
Happy Easter!