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Viral Mini Egg Cornflake Cake

Viral Mini Egg Cornflake Cake

This Viral Mini Egg Cornflake Cake is the ultimate showstopper! It’s made with a rich, moist chocolate cake, topped with my thick dark chocolate ganache and finished with crunchy chocolate cornflake clusters and crushed mini eggs. Originally inspired by RubyBarneyBritton on TikTok, my version however includes extra ganache!
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: dessert
Servings: 6 people

Ingredients

For the Chocolate Cake

  • 135 g plain flour
  • 200 g caster sugar
  • 50 g cocoa powder
  • 7 g baking soda
  • 3 g baking powder
  • 4 g salt

Wet Ingredients

  • 185 g buttermilk
  • 83 g vegetable oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 180 ml hot coffee

For the Ganache

  • 360 g Bournville chocolate
  • 110 g Dairy Milk chocolate
  • 235 ml Double cream half the total weight of chocolate

For the Cornflake Clusters

  • 140 g cornflakes
  • 250 g Dairy Milk chocolate
  • 1 pack mini eggs crushed with a rolling pin

For Decoration

  • 1 additional pack mini eggs some crushed, some whole

Instructions

Preheat oven to 160°C fan.

    Make the Cake

    • In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, caster sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla extract and hot coffee. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and gently mix until just combined.
    • Pour into lined cake tin.
    • Bake until a skewer comes out clean. At 160 degrees for 30-35 minutes.
    • Bake until a skewer comes out clean.
    • Leave to cool for 40 minutes.

    Make the Ganache

    • Add chopped Bournville and Dairy Milk chocolate to a bowl.
    • Heat double cream until hot (but not boiling).
    • Pour over chocolate.
    • Microwave in 30-second intervals, stirring each time until smooth and glossy.
    • Pour ganache over cooled cake.
    • Refrigerate for 30 minutes to set.

    Make the Cornflake Clusters

    • Melt Dairy Milk chocolate in 30-second intervals.
    • Stir through cornflakes.
    • Mix in crushed mini eggs.
    • When 10 minutes remain on the ganache setting time, prepare the cornflake mixture.
    • Remove cake from fridge and pile cornflake mixture on top.
    • Finish with extra mini eggs (some crushed, some whole).

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