I'm jumping on the Creme Egg bandwagon with this epic recipe for a Creme Egg Bundt Cake. The shape of the bundt looks like a birds nest!
Chocolate celebrations
Since my parents gave me my bundt tin for Christmas I have had so much fun coming up with creative bundt recipes including this Persian Love Bundt. With Easter looming I knew I had to come up with a Creme Egg-stravaganza of a recipe. When I locked eyes on my bundt tin I knew what I had to do - a Creme Egg Nest Cake!
The idea is simple: bake a moist chocolate cake in a bundt tin. Cover with chocolate frosting and grated chocolate / sprinkles for texture before gently nestling Creme Eggs in the bundt's hole. Chocolate flakes around the base of the bundt look like tree branches completing the look.
Cadbury's Creme Eggs are only around for a couple of month's each year so why not celebrate them! This nest cake just screams Easter and is the perfect show stopping cake to serve up over the long Easter weekend. It will easily serve 8 - 12 people making it the perfect cake to feed a crowd (though you might have to fight over the 5 Creme Eggs in the centre!)
To find out how to make this awesome Creme Egg Bundt Cake check out the recipe below.
The Recipe
Follow these simple instructions for a fun, playful Easter cake that makes the most of everyone's favourite Easter chocolate.
Cadbury’s Creme Egg Bundt Cake
Ingredients
For the cake
- 175 grams self raising flour
- 3 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 150 grams caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 150 millilitres vegetable oil
- 150 millilitres milk
- 2 tablespoon golden syrup
For the buttercream
- 75 grams butter
- 200 grams icing sugar
- 200 grams milk chocolate
For the decoration
- 100 g dark chocolate
- 100 g sprinkles
- 5 Cadbury creme eggs
- 5 Cadbury flakes
Instructions
- Begin by greasing a bundt tin and pre-heating the oven to gas mark 4.
- Sieve the flour, cocoa and sugar into a large bowl and make a well in the middle.
- Whisk the eggs then pour them into the well along with the milk, oil and golden syrup.
- Using an electric whisk beat until smooth and frothy!
- Pour the mixture into the bundt tin and bake in the centre of your oven for 30-35mins or until spring-y and a skewer comes out of the centre clean.
- All the cake to cool completely before decorating.
- Place the dark chocolate into the freezer this will help you grate it later.
- To make the icing, mix the butter and icing until smooth.
- Melt the chocolate and leave to cool down.
- When the chocolate is cool but still runny add it slowly to the butter icing and mix until smooth and chocolate-y! If the icing is too stiff to spread/pipe, add a splash of milk.
- Spoon the buttercream into a disposable piping bag.
- Pipe a thin ring of icing on to your cake board and use it to secure the bundt cake to the board.
- Arrange the flakes around the bundt cake, breaking some in half, to create a branch effect around the base of the cake. Use more piped buttercream to secure the flakes in place.
- Take the dark chocolate out of the freezer and grate into a cold bowl.
- Next, pipe the buttercream on to the bundt and use a spatular to spead on the top of the cake.
- Sprinkle the grated chocolate and sprinkles over the cake to give it texture.
- Finally, pipe the remaining buttercream into the centre of the bundt and begin stacking the creme eggs in the centre. Why not cut one or two in half to show the ozzing fondant centre,
Notes
Top tips for grating chocolate!
- freeze the chocolate first;
- use a food processor to grate the chocolate more quickly, tap the edges of the food processor to release the chocolate from the sides; or
- use the length of the blade on a knife to create curls instead of grating.
Nutrition
Nordicware bundt tins
The best bundt tins are Nordicware tins but they can be a little pricey. They come in a whole range of shapes and patterns but you can buy the one I used here.
Of course the shape doesn't really matter so feel free to be inspired by the wide range of tins.
More Creme Egg Inspiration
If you like this cake recipe you'll love these Creme Egg recipes from some of my favourite food bloggers:
- Creme Egg Chocolate Caramel Shortbread from Kerry Cooks
- Creme Egg Chocolate Ganache Tart from BakingQueen74
- Creme Egg Caramel Pavlovas from Little Sunny Kitchen
- Creme Egg Stuffed Chocolate Cookies from Munchies & Munchkins
- Creme Egg Meringue Nests from Recipes and Reviews
- Creme Egg Pancakes from Foodie Quine
- Scotch Creme Eggs from Amuse Your Bouche
- Baked Nutella Creme Egg Doughnuts from Recipes from a Pantry
Have you come up with any crazy Creme Egg bakes? Let me know in the comments below!
More Easter recipes
For the full range of Easter recipes on the blog, check out my Easter recipe collection. It includes both sweet and savoury dishes ideal for enjoying at Easter.
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche says
Oh my goodness this is WOW! Love the decoration, so stunning 😀
Emma Walton says
Thanks Becca 🙂 its so playful and fun to make!
Sus // roughmeasures.com says
WOW! What a show stopper! This looks fantastic Emma!
Emma Walton says
Thanks Sus!
Helen @ Fuss Free Flavours says
I love this, it really does look like a nest, and for the creme egg haterz it is easy just to have a slice and skip the egg.
Emma Walton says
Creme egg haterz exist 😮 madness! Glad you like it though Helen 🙂
Munchies & Munchkins says
Oh Emma this looks epic!! So pretty. I want a slice right now. x
Emma Walton says
Glad you like it! It was amazing. Unfortunately we don't have much left! It would be crumbs before it reached you in the post :-p
Kylee @ Kylee Cooks says
This looks absolutely amazing. So creative! I don't know if I could bear to cut into it - it's too pretty!
Lucy says
Oh my gosh, this cake looks EPIC. I don't know if I can wait until Easter to make it...
Emma Walton says
Thanks Lucy! There'd be no harm in making a test run now 😉
Taylor Thurston says
This looks amazing! All hail the Cadbury Cream Egg!
Sarah - The Charming Detroiter says
Wow - this looks absolutely delicious and visually stunning! Perfect for Easter!
kate @veggie desserts says
WOWZA! It does look like a birds nest. So gorgeous!
Emma Walton says
Thanks Kate 😀
Nayna Kanabar says
I am drooling at the look of this cake I bet it tastes amazing.
Emma Walton says
Thanks Nayna. It easy delicious! A real chocoholics dream 🙂
Sarah and Laura @ Wandercooks says
Laura LOVES cream eggs. Not sure if this would last 5 minutes in our house. I'd be going for the flakes for sure haha. The photos are great, and the recipe sounds even better!
Emma Walton says
Thanks Sarah! Looks like you'll have to make this for her then 😉 do send pics if you do!
Sara | Life's Little Sweets says
Pinning and sharing! This cake is perfection, I love it for Easter!
Emma Walton says
Thanks so much Sara. Glad you like it!
Tracy | Baking Mischief says
This is the most adorable Easter cake and such a fantastic idea! I love how when you acquire a new kitchen tool, you suddenly find all these uses for it you never would have considered before.
Emma Walton says
Thanks Tracy! There is certainly more to the bundt tin to just your average pound cake. Can't wait to share the garlic monkey bread. Just need to test it a few more times 😉 it's a hard life!
Rahul @samosastreet.com says
Cadbury Creme Eggs are my FAVE Easter candy, so I look forward to trying them in a cake.
Emma Walton says
Hi Rahul! Good to meet another creme egg lover 🙂 enjoy!
Lucy @ Globe Scoffers recipes says
Wow this look amazing! Definitely going to try make this.
I love creme eggs so much I made a creme egg chocolate trifle.
Emma Walton says
Thanks Lucy I'm glad you like it. Your trifle looks delish!
Demeter says
So cute that the cake looks like a bird's nest! What a fun recipe! 🙂
christine says
Back in the day bundt cakes used to be so boring. This is far from boring. What a showstopper! Love it and creme eggs are of course a fave here.
Emma Walton says
Thank you so much Christine 😀
Danielle says
You have my heart. I have this serious weakness for Cadbury Creme Eggs. I mean serious. I love them so much. I am so excited about this recipe! I need to buy a bundt pan though....
Emma Walton says
I think I'm just two creme eggs shy of an addiction lol! This cake was made for people like me and you 🙂
Emily says
Waaa I live in Italy and there are no creme eggs 🙁 🙁 I might need to track them down online this looks to die for!
Emma Walton says
:O Can you not get them on Amazon or similar?!
Haley says
This looks amazing! I can't wait for Easter now so I can make this!
Emma Walton says
Me either 😀 it's always a big hit!