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Easter cake showstopper recipe!

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I love Easter, it’s one of my favourite times of the year with the promise of spring on the horizon, cute chicks, lambs bouncing around the fields, bright yellow daffodils and lots and lots of chocolate. My idea of heaven!

This turned out to be an absolutely MASSIVE bake and getting to the end result took a lot of ingredients, feel free to scale down or even half the recipe to suit your own requirements. I love making showstopper cakes; watching the family tuck into this was a bit like the chocolate cake scene from Matilda – it was that big. There was loads left over and that makes for happy builders in the Treasure household this week, I am the hostess with the mostess ;-)

Easter cake made from a chocolate fudge cake and decorated with different chocolate for a real showstopper

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Simple meringue wreath with lemon curd and edible flowers

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I have a notebook brimming full of ideas for things I want to bake. In there, you will find lots of different bundt cake recipes- I seem to be slightly obsessed with anything beautifully round. This year I’ve added a collection of ideas for wreaths; you name it, it’s in there. From plaited bread wreaths with an oozy pot of camembert perched in the middle to plump little balls of Pan Au Chocolat nestled around a pot of melted white chocolate. First up though is this beautiful meringue wreath with nests full of tangy lemon curd, topped with whipped cream, fruit and the most gorgeous seasonal edible flowers.

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Lemon drizzle bundt cake with sugared raspberries and redcurrants

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For some reason, I have always been under the impression that baking a bundt cake would be incredibly difficult. One of my main concerns being that the cake would get stuck inside the tin, I greased mine well with butter and once cooled it turned out from the tin perfectly retaining all the detail. Phew!

Lemon drizzle bundt cake decorated with raspberries and redcurrants

Now I have my Tefal Cuisine Companion it makes short work out of making batter for cakes and so I want to try as many variations as possible and also challenged myself to bake once a week. We are always having visitors popping in and out and what’s nicer than being able to offer them a slice of homemade cake? Plus it helps make me appear a domestic Goddess when the reality is it most likely only took me a short amount of time to knock a cake up (shhh don’t tell anyone)

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