Special Occasion Cakes Recipes - Easter Egg Nest Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm lemon sponge ring cake

• 250 lemon flavor butter icing

• 225g marzipan

• pink, green and purple food coloring

• small foil-wrapped chocolate eggs

• 25cm cake board

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Method:

1. Cut the cake in hall horizontally and sandwich together with one-third of the butter icing. Place on the cake board. Use the remaining icing to cover the cake. Smooth the top and swirl the side with a palette knife.

2. For the marzipan plaits, divide the marzipan into three and tint pink, green and purple. Cut each portion in half. Using one-half of each color, roll thin sausages long enough to go around the base. Pinch the ends together, then twist the strands into a rope. Pinch the other ends to seal.

3. Place the colored marzipan rope on the cake board around the cake.

4. For the nests, take the remaining portions of colored marzipan and divide each into five. Roll each piece into a 16cm/6Yoin rope. Take a rope of each color, pinch the ends together, twist to form a multi-co colored rope and pinch the other ends. Form into a circle. Repeat to make five nests.

5. Space the nests evenly on the cake. Place small chocolate eggs in the nests.