{"id":17440,"date":"2021-02-27T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janespatisserie.com\/?p=17440"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:20:08","slug":"creme-egg-layer-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janespatisserie.com\/2021\/02\/27\/creme-egg-layer-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Creme Egg Layer Cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delicious oil based chocolate cake with tri-colour buttercream frosting, and Creme Eggs! Amazing Easter showstopper! <\/h2>\n

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Creme Egg Layer Cake<\/h3>\n

After the success of my mini egg loaf cake<\/a> the other day… I COULD NOT RESIST! SO many people were asking for a round version of the oil based sponge… and here it is! Creme Egg Layer cake – yes please! I had already planned to post this cake, but not quite so soon but here we are! <\/p>\n

This one is of Creme Egg themed instead. I know Creme Eggs aren’t everyones taste, but this cake is just something else! It is utterly delicious. It has such a light sponge with a ‘moist’ chocolate cake which some people can struggle to find in an easy to make cake. <\/p>\n

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Sponge<\/h3>\n

Chocolate fudge cake<\/a> is utterly delicious but requires a lot more ingredients, and this sponge is the happy middle! It is soft and so good. I use vegetable oil, but you can use sunflower oil – olive oil is potentially useable but can leave a bit of a flavour and I generally avoid it in baking! <\/p>\n

Obviously this has to be a chocolate sponge cake – chocolate is a very definite theme here! I love making three layer cakes like this one as they look that bit more ‘wow’ than a sandwich cake but are also easier than a 4 layer wondrous drip cake – this bake is definitely a box ticker for a happy medium of everything!<\/p>\n

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Colours<\/h3>\n

Because I went down the theme of Creme Eggs I wanted to use the idea of my Creme Egg loaf cake<\/a> and use the colours of yellow, orange<\/a> and brown for the buttercream! Just like a lot of my other cakes I went for the ‘buttercream poop’ effect as its easier when you have three different piping bags. <\/p>\n

In then end I used the basic buttercream as it was, some coloured orange<\/a>, and some flavoured and then coloured chocolate to get the three colour of this cake. <\/p>\n

In my mini egg chocolate cake<\/a> I did colours layer by layer, and you can 100% do that – its easier than switching piping bags often, but I wanted to decorate this one slightly differently! It hurt my brain slightly trying to make the colours work in a ‘step’ effect but I love it!<\/p>\n

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Decoration<\/h3>\n

This sort of decoration is of course optional – you can just slather the different colours on however you pleased – but I try and make it themed as much as possible! Just like the mini egg loaf cake<\/a> I didn’t put any of the chocolate in the sponge as it just wouldn’t work however. <\/p>\n

I did go a little over the top with the icing drizzle I will admit, but it happened and I couldn’t scrape it off haha! I like to think most decoration ideas are optional anyway. For example, I shoved come chopped up Creme Eggs on the top as they’d already crumbled!<\/p>\n

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Creme Eggs<\/h3>\n

Please don’t be a cynic and say ‘how is it Creme Egg themed if its only on the top’ – easter chocolate isn’t the cheapest and some of my bakes use SO MUCH CHOCOLATE just like my Creme Egg brownies<\/a> – so for this I think its allowed to use less!<\/p>\n

The idea of it is the decoration anyway! All about the colours. All about the explosion of Creme Egg on this delightful layer cake. I hope you love this recipe! Enjoy! x<\/p>\n

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Creme Egg Layer Cake!<\/h2>\n\t\t
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Delicious oil based chocolate cake with tri-colour buttercream frosting, and Creme Eggs! Amazing Easter creme egg layer cake showstopper!\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n