Chocolate Easter Nest Treat (Print Version)
# Ingredients:
→ Pastry
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200 g dark chocolate
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100 g butter
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4 eggs
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80 g sugar
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50 g flour
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100 g chocolate for decorating
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Small sugar eggs for garnish
# Instructions:
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Heat your oven to 180°C. Slowly melt dark chocolate with butter using a water bath.
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Split egg whites from yolks. Mix yolks with sugar until pale, then add your melted chocolate.
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Fold in sifted flour gently. Whip egg whites until stiff peaks form and carefully blend into the mixture.
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Pour everything into a buttered cake pan and bake for around 20 minutes.
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Let it cool completely then turn out onto a wire rack.
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Melt the remaining chocolate and drizzle it to create twig patterns on the cake. When the chocolate hardens, arrange the sugar eggs nicely to look like a nest.