Malteser MaltEaster Bunny & Mini Egg Chocolate Cake

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This beautiful Malteser MaltEaster Bunny & Mini Egg Chocolate Cake is very easy to make and perfect for anyone who loves Easter and the chocolates that come with it!
Malteser Malteser Bunny and Mini Egg Chocolate Cake

It always irks me how as soon as Boxing Day has passed, you can buy Easter eggs in the shops! Now don’t get me wrong, I love eating a chocolate egg as much as the next chocolate egg eating person, BUT I do feel selling them straight after Christmas is just too early.

My favourite little easter treats are mini eggs. They are so scrumptious and pretty and easy to eat! I have made a few recipes now which include them (see the bottom of this post for some), and the other week I decided to make another cake incorporating them and, hence, this Malteser MaltEaster Bunny & Mini Egg Chocolate Cake was created.

I thought that I could make a chocolate cake which had the Malteser bunnies, big ones and baby ones, around the outside, a bit like those kitkat or chocolate fingers cakes.

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Then I just added lots of mini eggs, big and small ones, on the top to make it look colourful and well more yummy!

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This was an easy cake to make because it was just a chocolate sponge cake, filled and covered with a cream cheese and chocolate spread frosting, and then decorated with the easter chocolates.

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My friend was not expecting such a cake – she had envisaged a slice with a cuppa at my house, not a whole cake to take home! I think I was her favourite friend that week lol!

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If you fancy making this for Easter – because it would brighten up any table over the Easter weekend, or maybe make it after Easter to use up any leftover (if such a thing exists in your home!), then here is how you can make it.

Malteser MaltEaster Bunny & Mini Egg Chocolate Cake
Serves 12
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Cook Time
23 min
Cook Time
23 min
Ingredients
  1. 200g unsalted butter
  2. 200g caster sugar
  3. 4 eggs
  4. 160g self raising flour
  5. 40g cocoa powder
  6. 250g full fat cream cheese
  7. 1 x 400g jar of chocolate spread (I used the Tesco value one)
  8. 10 large Malteser Malteaster chocolate easter bunnies
  9. 10 mini Malteser Malteaster chocolate easter bunnies
  10. 1 x 328g bag of Cadburys mini eggs
  11. 1 x 90g bag of Tesco micro chocolate eggs
Instructions
  1. pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC (fan)
  2. grease and line 2 x 8 inch sandwich tins
  3. cream the butter and sugar together for about 5 minutes until pale and soft
  4. add the eggs and a spoonful of the flour and beat for a few more minutes
  5. fold in the remaining flour and the cocoa powder
  6. divide the batter between the two tins and then cook in the oven for 22-25 minutes approx
  7. leave the cakes to cool
  8. once the sponges are cold to the touch, make your frosting by beating the cream cheese and chocolate spread together
  9. sandwich the two sponges together with some of the frosting
  10. then cover the cake with the remaining frosting
  11. take your chocolate bunnies, and stick around the side of the cake alternating between a big and a small bunny
  12. then once this has been done, carefully pour/add the eggs onto the top of the cake
  13. serve and enjoy 🙂
Mummy Mishaps http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/

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This cake definitely has a wow factor and would make a beautiful centrepiece on your Easter Sunday table. It could even be made as a birthday cake for someone who loves chocolate cake and Easter chocolates.

Here is a video showing how easy this cake is to make:

Other mini egg recipes :

Mini Egg Chocolate Cake
White Chocolate & Mini Egg Cheesecake
Mini Egg Chocolate Cookies

This cake is my entry into  the Firelabel best dressed baking award.

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36 Comments

  4. I need more friends like you! What a lovely gift!! The bunnies make me laugh though…they all look rather scared – like someone’s lined them up to shoot them (or is it just me who sees that…?) I love your idea for a very quick and easy frosting…going to have to try that…beats creaming butter and sieving lumpy icing sugar and I bet it tastes fab 🙂 Eb x

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  7. FreeFromFairy

    What a beautiful looking cake! Alas since I no longer eat sugar it wouldn’t be for me…as much as I’d like it to be!!

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  10. This is SO pretty! My nieces would lose their little minds if they saw this, so I think I’ll have to make one for them at Easter. Thank you so much for sharing the recipe.

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  15. Wow! This is awesome 🙂 Came across this recipe on Pinterest and it’s got my creative juices flowing. I’m not usually one for baking, but this is too pretty not to give it a go 🙂

    Thanks for the in-depth recipe 😀

    Emily
    (www.thecosytraveller.co.uk)

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  16. choclette

    What an absolutely fantastic cake. Just love the way you’ve got all those bunnies jumping around. I know what you mean about Easter – one month before is plenty and the same goes for Christmas. Thanks for sharing with #WeShouldCocoa.

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  19. Ebs

    The cake was very lovely! Although it was very thin for my liking!
    Next time I will double the batter mix!
    I also used a different icing because I could not find a good chocolate spread!
    thanks!

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    • Oh no sorry to hear that your sponges were thin. Mine always rise well and are big enough. I guess different ovens can make a difference? Glad it tasted good though x

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  22. Vicki

    Hi am in the process of making this for Easter this weekend. Any top tips on making sure the bunnies stay stuck on the icing please? Xx

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    • Hi Vicki – just make sure your buttercream/frosting is not dry. So as soon as you add your frosting stick on your bunnies. If it dries a little, add some frosting to back of each bunny then stick on. Good luck – please pop a photo of it on fb and tag me if you make it xx

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  28. Natalie

    If I want to make this the day before how do I store it, is it ok left out at room temperature or does it need to go in the fridge because if the cream cheese frosting?

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    • Hello, it is fine to make this cake the easy before. the frosting will keep for a few days. Best to keep it somewhere cold/cool especially when the weather is warmer if you can. I hope it works out well for you x

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