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A bird inside a cake and Happy Easter! (Un cake con un pajarito para Semana Santa)








First of all I wanted a bunny to do this .... But I didn't so I  use a chick but it can be done with the figure that you want  (maybe a heart or leaves , all you want)
 The cake is really good and is from a beautiful blog called "The recipe of happiness" (La receta de la felicidad) she has beautiful things. Is in spanish but you can translate.

Happy Easter !









Ingredients

Chocolate cake

200 grams soft butter
200 grams of sugar
4 eggs
250 grams all purpose  flour
60 grams of bitter chocolate or pure cacao
1 pinch of salt
1 teaspoon baking powder

Vanilla Cake

200 grams soft butter
200 grams of sugar
4 eggs
250 grams of flour
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 pinch of salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 loaf pan

Method

Prepare the chocolate cake first. 
Preheat the oven to 180 ° C
Beat the softened butter with the sugar and add the eggs one by one, mixed well.
Finally add the chocolate flour or cocoa, baking powder and salt . Mix until everything is well incorporated. Using your scraper pour the mixture into your buttered loaf pan.
 Bake for about 40 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
Cut the cake into thick slices (according to the cutter used) and cut the figures , rabbit, chicken or whatever.
Put all the slices together in a buttered mold and bring to the freezer until the vanilla cake  is prepared (at least 1 hour)
It is important that the cut figures fit together in the mold.

Vanilla cake 


Preheat oven to 180 °. 
Beat the butter with the sugar, add the eggs one by  one, add the vanilla, flour, baking powder and pinch of salt.

Remove the other mold from the fridge  with the frozen figures and carefully pour the vanilla mixture over the chocolate cake.
 Transfer to the oven and bake for about 40 minutes or until well risen and golden brown.
Remove from the oven and cool completely before serving.


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En español
Cake con figuras para  Semana Santa
























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