Ingredients

• 6oz - soft margarine
• 6oz - caster sugar
• 3 - eggs, beaten
• 6 oz - self-rising flour
• grated rind and juice of 1 orange
• 2oz - plain chocolate
• The decoration :
• 4oz - slightly salted butter
• 8oz - icing sugar, sifted
• 4oz - plain chocolate
• 3 tbsp - apricot jam
• 4 large - Cadbury's Flake bars
• 8oz - Cadbury's Mini Eggs

How to Make Chocolate Nest Cake

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Put margarine, caster sugar, eggs, and self-rising flour in a bowl. Combine the ingredients and beat well until mixture is light in colour and texture.
• Stir in orange rind and half of the juice.
• Break up chocolate for cake.
• Place on a plate over a pan of simmering water until completely melted.
• Stir the chocolate through the cake mixture so that it is streaked.
• Turn mixture into a greased 9-inch ring tin and spread level.
• Bake the cake in a preheated oven for 30 minutes until spongy to touch.
• Turn on to a wire tray and leave it to cool.
• Beat butter until soft, and then gradually beat in icing sugar and the remaining orange juice.
• Melt chocolate for decoration, as before, and beat into buttercream to make a smooth mixture. Split cake in half. Spread both halves with jam and sandwich back together.
• Place cake on a plate and, using a small palette knife, spread chocolate buttercream over surface, leaving it rough in appearance.
• Using a sharp knife, cut Flake bars into long pieces and arrange over cake to give a nest effect.
• Fill the centre of the cake with Cadbury's Mini Eggs.