Chocolate Fudge Easter Cakes

A chocolatey tea-time treat that kids will love to help out with

• Cooking Time Cook 15 mins
• Skill Level Easy
• Servings 16

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  274

• Protein

  3g

• Carbs

  31g

• Fat

  16g

• Saturates

  9g

• Fibre

  1g

• Sugar

  25g

• Salt

  0.43g

Ingredients

• Chocolate fudge easter cakes
• 140g soft butter
• 140g golden caster sugar
• 3 medium eggs
• 100g self-raising flour
• 25g cocoa, sifted
• For the frosting
• 85g milk chocolate, broken
• 85g soft butter
• 140g icing sugar, sifted
• 2 35g/1½oz packs white chocolate maltesers, mini foil-wrapped chocolate eggs We use Fairtrade Divine milk chocolate eggs from Waitrose

Directions

1. Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5 and put 16 gold cases into a fairy-cake tin. Tip all the ingredients for the cake into a mixing bowl and beat for 2 mins with an electric hand-whisk until smooth. Divide between the cases so they are two-thirds filled, then bake for 12-15 mins until risen. Cool on a wire rack.
2. For the frosting, microwave the chocolate on High for 1 min. Cream the butter and sugar together, then beat in the melted chocolate. Spread on the cakes and decorate with Maltesers and chocolate eggs.

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