Easter Nest Cake

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    1hr 10mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    8
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    951
based on 22 ratings

This cake is a bit different from normal Easter cake but it’s a tasty break from chocolate. We have used small chocolate Easter eggs to decorate our cake, but you can use anything you like. Using a ring-shaped cake tin or Bundt pan is the best way to achieve the nest shape.

recipe updated Mar 17, 2025

Ingredients

  • Butter icon
    Butter
    475 g
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    4
  • Flaked coconut icon
    Flaked coconut
    as needed
  • Caster sugar icon
    Caster sugar
    225 g
  • All purpose flour icon
    All purpose flour
    275 g
  • Baking powder icon
    Baking powder
    3 ½ teaspoons
  • Vanilla extract icon
    Vanilla extract
    2 teaspoons
  • Milk icon
    Milk
    4 tablespoons
  • Icing sugar icon
    Icing sugar
    500 g
  • Chocolate eggs icon
    Chocolate eggs
    as needed

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Cooling rack
  • kCook icon Kenwood Chef
  • kCook icon Kenwood bowl - kenwood chef
  • kCook icon Ring cake mold - 23cm (9")

Step preview

  1. Pre-heat oven - 170°C
  2. Grease a clean ring cake mold
  3. Attach Creaming beater
  4. Add caster sugar, butter, all purpose flour, baking powder, egg, vanilla extract and milk to the Kenwood Bowl
  5. Mix with splashguard fitted - 2 min, Speed 3
  6. Transfer mixture to ring cake mold
  7. Bake until skewer tests clean - 50 min, 170°C
  8. Remove from oven and let cool - 10 min
  9. Turn out onto cooling rack until completely cool
  10. Clean Kenwood Bowl
  11. Attach Creaming beater
  12. Add butter to the Kenwood Bowl
  13. Mix with splashguard fitted then scrape bowl - 30 sec, Speed 3
  14. Then add icing sugar, vanilla extract and milk to the Kenwood Bowl
  15. Mix with splashguard fitted - 2 min, Speed 3
  16. Cover cake with buttercream
  17. Layer with flaked coconut
  18. Top with chocolate eggs
  19. Serve
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