Festive Seasons Recipes

Festive Seasons Recipes

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  • Easter Cake

  • Cuisine:

    English

  • Category:

    Festive Seasons

  • Serves: 15 persons
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Cost:

    Cheap

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Ingredients

1¾ cups plain flour or 250 g

1 tin NESTLÉ® Sweetened Condensed Milk or 395 g

3 eggs

2/3 cup butter or 150 g, soft

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ tablespoon vanilla essence

1 tablespoon lemon zest, or zest of one lemon

1½ cups raspberry jam or 500 g

for the almond paste:

1¾ cups ground almonds or 250 g

2 cups icing sugar or 220 g

2/3 tin NESTLÉ® Sweetened Condensed Milk or 263 g

½ teaspoon vanilla essence

3 tablespoons corn flour or 25 g

1½ teaspoons water

for the butter cream:

¾ cup butter or 200 g

1/3 tin NESTLÉ® Sweetened Condensed Milk or 132 g

½ teaspoon vanilla essence

Preparation

To prepare Cake:

Combine the flour, NESTLÉ® Sweetened Condensed Milk , eggs, soft butter, baking powder, vanilla and lemon zest; mix for 5 minutes or until they change in color.

Pour the mixture into a greased 20cm round baking tin and bake in a preheated oven at 170 °C for 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Remove from the oven and set aside to cool down. Cut the cake into 2 layers, fill with the raspberry jam and cover it all with a thin layer of jam.

To prepare the Marzipan layer:

Combine all ingredients and mix slowly making soft dough with your hand, cover with cling film and keep aside.

Roll out dough to 2 mm thick, cover the cake with the dough trimming excess edges. Using leftover almond paste dough, form a rabbit and carrot shape for decoration.

To prepare the butter cream:

Combine all the ingredients and beat well using an electrical mixer for 6 minutes or until fluffy, decorate the cake with the cream using a piping bag.

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