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Serves 10 -12
Ingredients
Hidden rabbit
- 175g Unsalted Butter
- 175g Caster Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 140g Self-Raising Flour
- ½ tsp Baking Powder - 100ml Milk - 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- Food colouring
Cake
- 175g Unsalted Butter
- 175g Caster Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 140g Self-Raising Flour
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- 100ml Milk
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
Buttercream and Decorations
- 250g Unsalted Butter
- 500g Icing Sugar
- Mini Eggs
- Cake Crumbs
Method
For The Hidden Rabbit
- Pre-heat the oven to 160C fan and line a 20 x 30cm baking tin with baking paper.
- In a large mixing bowl beat together the 175g butter and 175g sugar until light and fluffy.
- Gradually add the eggs one at a time while continuously mixing.
- Then add 140g flour and 1⁄2 tsp baking powder and fold into the butter mix. Once all the flour is incorporated add 100ml milk and 2 tsp vanilla and mix into the batter.
- Now get 4 smaller bowls and separate the mix equally between them. Once divided equally add a separate food colour to each bowl. I used Blue, Pink, Orange and Red. Mix the food colouring in until the batter is evenly coloured.
- Using a tablespoon add drops of the mixture into your lined baking tray, you want to achieve the effect in then photo below. Swirl the mixture slightly using a toothpick, this will create a marble effect when baked.
- Once all the mix has been added to the tin and levelled, bake in the pre-heated oven for around 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Once baked, leave to cool on a cooling rack and remove the cake from the tin.
- Using a cookie cutter of your choice, cut shapes from your cake (I used a rabbit cutter). Make sure you cut enough to fit the length of a loaf tin.
Surrounding Cake
- Use the same method as above to make your cake batter. This time you will not be separating the mix to add food colouring.
- Line a loaf tin with baking paper and pour 3⁄4 of the mixture into the prepared loaf tin.
- Push the bottoms of the rabbit shapes into the batter in a tightly packed row. Then spoon over the remaining cake mixture, covering as much of the rabbits as possible.
- Once all the rabbits have been covered bake for 1hr 10 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Once baked, leave to cool in the tin, on a cooling rack and start to prepare your buttercream. To make the buttercream you will need room temperature butter. Place the butter in a bowl and mix using a stand mixer or electric whisk for around 5 minutes. The butter should start to look whiter instead of yellow. Then gradually add the icing sugar and vanilla extract until fully combined.
- Remove the cake from the tin and allow it to cool completely before you start to decorate. In the meantime, crumble up any of the remaining coloured cake batter into a bowl. You are looking for a breadcrumb consistency.
- Once the cake has cooled, cover it with buttercream and then press the cake crumbs onto the sides and top of the cake. Make sure you cover all the buttercream.
- Fill a piping bag with then remaining buttercream, using a star tip, pipe rosettes onto the top of the cake. Finally decorate with Mini Eggs and enjoy.
Happy baking x
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