Can I show off my Easter cake? And would anyone like to show me theirs?

[Greensleeves]

19yo DS1 came home from uni wanting to learn how to do lots of different cake-making, icing and sugarcraft, so we've had a fun few weeks, culminating in this Easter cake which we made all the flowers for together

It's a six-layer chocolate cake with whipped milk chocolate ganache filling, dark chocolate ganache coating, and piped sweetened chocolate whipped cream.

Anyone else made an Easter cake they want to post a pic of?

Where did you say you live @Greensleeves?

Looks gorgeous 😍.
Hope you all enjoy it.

Yes please!

Wow that looks amazing

That looks so lovely and delicious @Greensleeves

That's so clever, the daffodils look great. Almost too good to eat

Nope, no, that doesn't look good at all @Greensleeves, sorry.

Please send it to me and I'll ... ahem .... dispose of it for you.

You're welcome.

What a lovely cake!

Pop the kettle on, I am on my way round

Looks gorgeous!! Is the birds nest piped? Can I ask what piping tip you used for that? I've made some cupcakes and want to pipe the chocolate buttercream to be more nest-like but I don't normally deviate from a star tip so not sure which to use, yours looks fab!!

You do know not a soul will be posting a pic don't you op??
Delicious!!

@SomeFuckingWizardry

Looks gorgeous!! Is the birds nest piped? Can I ask what piping tip you used for that? I've made some cupcakes and want to pipe the chocolate buttercream to be more nest-like but I don't normally deviate from a star tip so not sure which to use, yours looks fab!!

No, the bird's nest isn't piped, it's good old-fashioned shredded wheat bashed up and mixed with milk chocolate, then pushed into an oiled mini pie dish

We made a load of smaller ones in a muffin pan as well, which DS will be taking back to uni with him. Messy but great fun.

My guess is that the nest is some kind of shredded wheat cereal and chocolate @SomeFuckingWizardry :)

It is really beautiful and sounds delicious, well done to you and DS.

Wow OP, that's amazing!

Ah I see, it looks brilliant, so realistic! I will have to do some experimenting with a few different tips this evening.

Great job!

Absolutely Incredible!! I love that your DS wanted to learn

I'll be over in 5, BTW

Looks amazing.

Oh how lovely is that.

I don't bake so can't post but would like to see pics of other cakes you have made

Oh my god that is the cake I dreamed of as a child - a proper gateau, and the 1970s colour scheme and flowers are perfect!

Nowhere near as fancy as your beautiful creation, but I hada spare half hour so I made cheese cakes in the halves of spare Easter eggs. Out the base in first and for that I just ground up rich tea and mashed milks. No butter as I wanted it light. The cheesecake is white chocolate, lemon and raspberry. Really light and fluffy and not too sweet at all.

I have no baking skills so I have no cake to show you, op. I absolutely had to say that it looks fabulous though, and I bet it tastes as good as it looks.

@myceliumama

Nowhere near as fancy as your beautiful creation, but I hada spare half hour so I made cheese cakes in the halves of spare Easter eggs. Out the base in first and for that I just ground up rich tea and mashed milks. No butter as I wanted it light. The cheesecake is white chocolate, lemon and raspberry. Really light and fluffy and not too sweet at all.

That sounds absolutely delicious! What a brilliant idea.