For Lent this year, I decided to give up Chocolate in a bid to start losing weight in time for the wedding. It's much better if I do it slowly and gradually, my love of all good food would never allow me to starve myself to fit into any dress!
I was surprised that I actually didn't crave it that much during the 40 days and nights, but as a treat when we got to the end I made a wonderfully chocolatey Easter Cake like I have done for the past few years. I used my tried and tested fudgy chocolate cake recipe again, and sandwiched it together using chocolate ganache buttercream. I then used Cadbury's fingers around the edge as my border. I was very impressed that I had such a good rise on my cakes that the fingers didn't reach all the way to the top, however as my fiancee commented as he pinched a finger before I had finished decorating "These are a lot smaller than I remember...!"
If you're wondering how many packs of fingers you need to go round an 8" cake, it's two packets... minus one!
I then filled the top with everybody's favourite Easter treat, Mini Eggs! Now they are definitely putting fewer in a bag as it took me three whole bags (less maybe one or two as perks for the chef) to cover the top.
I tied a blue ribbon around the fingers to keep them in place and to look pretty, and my Easter cake was finished! It definitely tasted as good as it looked and it was the perfect celebration of Easter and a successfully completed Lent.
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