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It’s Easter already! Season of newness, warmer days and lots and lots of chocolate. Hurrah!!!



I love Easter time. It firmly ends the winter months and because of the long weekend, allows for extra time in the garden, away or just out and about, often without the burden of thick winter coats (fingers crossed). The world seems to start smiling again and the tenseness that comes with the cold starts to ebb away. It is a great time to rejuvenate and to spend time with family and friends sharing foodie treats and being social.

Traditional Easter cakes, such as Simnel cake, tend to centre around fruit mixes. Although I enjoy an occasional slice of fruit cake, it never quite hits the height of decadence and celebration. For me, chocolate is the way to go to honour any anniversary or festival…….. the richer, darker and more moist the better. Even our wedding cake was chocolate…… all three layers of it!

This Mocha Easter Cake is incredibly rich and most definitely very very chocolatey. A small slice goes a long way…………… perfect for sharing. Made with plenty of dark chocolate as well as a dose of cocoa, it gains extra depth from a splash of fresh-brewed coffee. The texture is slightly brownie-like…………  quite dense, very moist and a bit sticky………. but is much lighter. The batter makes fantastically fluffy cupcakes too!

The sponge is, interestingly, not over-sweet and the coffee gives a delightful slightly bitter kick which contrasts beautifully against the creamy, sugary frosting and seems to intensify the darkness of the chocolate.

In celebration of Easter, I decorated my cake with a full coating of vanilla butter-frosting and oodles and oodles of Mini-Eggs. There seem to be a lot of cakes about at the moment which incorporate the other Easter favourite – Creme Eggs. Weirdly, despite my sweet tooth, I find Creme Eggs a little bit sickly and much prefer Mini Eggs. I know they are also very sweet, but it’s how it is…….

I will admit that I have probably gone a tad over-board with the extent of egg-decoration on this cake…………… Each slice probably gives you a fun-size bag of eggs, albeit on top of the cake.  But what is Easter without sugar overload? And they do look so pretty and fun!

There are a whole load of fun cakey, chocolatey Easter challenges this month. This very ‘eggy’ cake is  a perfect offering for a few of them so here goes……………

First up : Jibber Jabber‘s Love Cake challenge – the theme being a very seasonal ‘Springing into Easter’. One of the things I love about Mini Eggs is the lovely pastel colours of the candy shells which shout Spring and they most definitely exude Easter too!

Next I am entering it into Nayna’s Simply Food event : Let’s Cook Sweet Treats for Easter. This cake is definitely sweet, an absolute treat and very Easter!

And finally, I am offering this as my second entry this month to We Should Cocoa being hosted by Rachel Cotterill on behalf of Choclette at the Chocolate Log Blog. Unsurprisingly, April’s theme is a very chocolatey Easter!

So Happy Easter all. Have loads of fun and enjoy all that chocolate guilt free and while it lasts!!!

Rich Mocha Easter Cake

Ingedients

200g good quality dark chocolate
200g unsalted butter – cubed
130 ml strong fresh-brewed coffee
185g plain gluten free flour (I used blend A from this post)
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
1½ teaspoons GF baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
½ teaspoon fine sea salt
200g soft light brown sugar
160g golden caster sugar
30g cocoa powder
120 ml milk
¾ teaspoon white wine vinegar
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract


Vanilla Frosting
200g unsalted butter – room temperature
4 teaspoons vanilla extract
500g icing sugar
2 to 3 tablespoons almond/rice milk

To  decorate
Mini eggs (I used one and a bit 360g bags – give or take the few that I ate!)
sprinkles

Method

  1. Base-line two round 8 inch baking tins with baking paper.
  2. Pre-heat the oven to 170 C/325 F/Gas 3.
  3. In a medium glass bowl, break the chocolate into pieces and add the butter and coffee.  Melt together either over a saucepan of simmering water or in a microwave at medium heat on 30 second bursts, stirring frequently, until fully blended. Set aside.
  4. In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, xanthan gum, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt, sugars and cocoa powder, making sure any lumps are completely broken down.
  5. In a small cup or jug, mix the milk with the vinegar and leave to stand for a few minutes.
  6. Whisk the eggs in a large bowl until thickened slightly and pale in colour.
  7. Add the vanilla extract, melted chocolate and milk mixtures and continue to whisk until smooth and fully combined.
  8. Add the dry ingredients and fold gently until fully amalgamated. Do not over-mix.
  9. Pour the batter into the cake tins, ensuring an even distribution.
  10. Bake for 50 minutes to an hour in the centre of the oven, until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
  11. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tins for about 15 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely.
  12. To make the frosting, beat the butter with the vanilla extract until smooth.
  13. Gradually add the icing sugar and milk a little at a time and beat until you have a smooth frosting paste with a good spreading consistency.
  14. Sandwich the cakes together with frosting and then use the remaining frosting to cover the cake completely, smoothing the sides with a palette knife and spreading a thicker layer on the top.
  15. Decorate with mini eggs and sprinkles.
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  1. Baking Addict says

    29/04/2014 at 11:34 pm

    I love chocolate and coffee and this cake looks absolutely stunning. I'm not a fan of creme eggs either so this mini egg cake is perfect for me – can't have too many mini eggs in my book! Hope you had a good Easter 🙂

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    • Kate Glutenfreealchemist says

      30/04/2014 at 6:36 pm

      I am afraid the mini-eggs were an irresistible choice, even if I do feel 10 stone heavier for eating too many of them! Easter was lovely thank you! Hope you did too….

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  2. Jibber JabberUK says

    28/04/2014 at 9:27 am

    This looks truly magnificent! I agree that the pastel colours of the Mini Eggs really are evocative of Spring and thus an essential decoration! Thanks for linking up with this month's Love Cake.

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    • Kate Glutenfreealchemist says

      28/04/2014 at 7:42 pm

      You're welcome…. thanks for hosting!

      Reply
  3. Choclette says

    21/04/2014 at 9:43 am

    Oh goodness, that is a true Easter egg cake – love the idea of getting a packet of eggs with every slice. The cake looks really delicious too – you had me at brownie like. I'm not really a coffee fan, but do find it works really well in chocolate cakes. Thanks for entering this into WSC.

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    • Kate Glutenfreealchemist says

      21/04/2014 at 6:36 pm

      You're welcome Choclette. I think I probably put on a few pounds eating it (as did all the people I shared it with) but it was worth every calorie!

      Reply
  4. The Caked Crusader says

    20/04/2014 at 8:03 pm

    Isn't that the prettiest cake? What I love is the ring of eggs around the base of the cake – like a pearl necklace!

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    • Kate Glutenfreealchemist says

      21/04/2014 at 6:32 pm

      Thank you CC. That is such a lovely description!

      Reply
  5. cupcake girl says

    19/04/2014 at 4:10 pm

    This looks awesome! Yeah, I dnt do fruit in cake either…No. I'd much prefer this any day of the week. Plus u have very thing u need dark choc, cocoa and the coffee AKA the perfect chocolate cake!! Love the decorations it so nice and neat.

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    • Kate Glutenfreealchemist says

      20/04/2014 at 5:24 pm

      Thanks. It was pretty delicious! Chocolate is so much more decadent than fruit!

      Reply
  6. Katie says

    18/04/2014 at 4:20 pm

    Wow that looks wonderfully fudgy. I adore cakes like this, that moist sticky dense (in a good way) sort of cake. The mini egg decoration is beautiful too. Will definelty be giving this a try. Happy Easter 🙂

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    • Kate Glutenfreealchemist says

      20/04/2014 at 5:22 pm

      Thanks Katie. Happy Easter to you too!

      Reply
  7. Laura Denman says

    17/04/2014 at 10:27 pm

    Noooooo! You can never go overboard with mini egg decoration. It's definitely an integral part!

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    • Kate Glutenfreealchemist says

      20/04/2014 at 5:22 pm

      Ha! Thanks for your confidence Laura. I ate them and trust me……… there were a lot!

      Reply

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