Filled with chopped Creme Eggs and topped with glace icing, this Cadbury Creme Egg Chocolate Cake is the perfect recipe for your Easter celebrations!
Reasons to love this Creme Egg Chocolate Cake
- The chocolate sponge is super fudgy and moist
- Creme Eggs are chopped up and folded into the cake. They sink to the bottom and create this delicious chewy chocolatey layer 😍
- The cake is decorated with Creme Egg inspired glace icing
- This is the easiest Easter show-stopper bake ever! No fancy equipment needed for this recipe and it’s perfect if you’re short on time
Recipe overview & top tips
- Mix the chocolate cake ingredients together. For a fluffy cake texture, I highly recommend using margarine instead of butter, this will also prevent the cake from doming.
- Fold in chopped Creme Eggs. Chop up whole Creme Eggs into chunks (warning this can be messy business!) and fold into the chocolate cake mixture.
- Bake for 55-60 minutes. Spoon the mixture into a loaf tin (more info on this later) and bake in the centre of the oven for 55-60 minutes. Use the toothpick test to check whether the cake is ready, it should come out crumb-free.
- Make the glace icing. Water and icing sugar, that’s it! Glace icing is the easiest icing option ever.
- Decorate the cake. Here comes the fun part 🤩 Coat the cake in white icing, drop spoonfuls of orange icing on top for the yolks, then place Creme Egg halves down the middle.
Ta-dah, your Creme Egg Chocolate Cake is ready!
What size loaf tin to use
For this Creme Egg Chocolate Cake recipe, you will need a 2lb loaf tin. The dimensions of the tin I used are 15.5cm width x 29cm length x 7.5cm depth. You can see it in the photo below, and I’ve also shared a link to the exact baking tin below.
The best way to prepare a loaf tin
Unlike square baking tins, loaf tins can be a little tricky to prepare. I’ve found that the best way is to first lightly grease the tin all over with a little butter. Then cut a piece of greaseproof paper that is long enough to line the base and long sides of the tin, with enough hanging over the edges to help you lift the cake out. This way the loaf cake will have straight, neat edges and bake more evenly.
Equipment & ingredients used for this Creme Egg Chocolate Cake
Creme Egg Chocolate Loaf Cake
Filled with chopped Creme Eggs and topped with glace icing, this Creme Egg Chocolate Cake is the perfect recipe for your Easter celebrations!
Ingredients
Chocolate loaf cake
- 300 g Margarine or unsalted butter I use Stork Original
- 300 g Golden caster sugar
- 3 large Eggs At room temperature
- 220 g Self-raising flour
- 80 g Cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp Milk
- 6 whole Cadbury Creme Eggs Roughly chopped
Decoration
- 450 g Icing sugar
- 6 tbsp Water
- Orange food colouring
- 2 whole Cadbury Creme Eggs
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Lightly butter a 2lb loaf tin (I used this one by Circulon) and line with greaseproof paper (see notes in the post above). Set aside.
- Stir the dry ingredients (flour and cocoa powder) together in a bowl and set aside.
- In a separate bowl, beat the margarine and sugar together until creamy.
- Mix in the eggs one at a time, adding 2 tablespoons of the dry ingredients after each egg to stop the mixture from curdling.
- Add the remaining dry ingredients and gently fold the mixture together until smooth and fully combined.
- Fold in the milk and chopped Creme Eggs.
- Spoon the chocolate cake mixture into the loaf tin, smoothing it out the top.
- Bake for 55-60 minutes* until risen and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out free of crumbs. Leave in the baking tin for 15 minutes, then lift the cake out onto a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
Decorate the loaf cake
- Mix the icing sugar and water together in a bowl. The texture of the glace icing should be thick but still pourable.
- Spoon 2 tablespoons of icing into a separate bowl and colour it orange.
- Pour the white icing over the top of the loaf cake, letting it drip down the sides. Then dollop spoonfuls of orange icing on top.
- Chop the Creme Eggs in half and place down the middle of the cake.
- Slice into 12 and serve!
Notes
Store your Creme Egg Chocolate Loaf Cake in an airtight container, at room temperature, for up to 3 days.
*If the loaf cake starts to burn on top, you can lightly place a sheet of foil on top, but only do this after 45 minutes (otherwise the cake will sink in the middle when you oven the oven).
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