Easter jaffa cake

Izzy wanted to cook a cake. A brown cake. By this I assumed she meant a chocolate cake. I have some oranges to use up, so we combine the two and made a jaffa marble cake.

Marble Jaffa Cake

2 eggs

cream

1 heaped teaspoon orange zest

1 cup SR Flour

1 Tblspn cocoa

orange food colouring

Crack 2 eggs in a 1 cup measure. Fill to top with cream.

Add zest and flour, stir to combine.

Divide mixture in half. Add cocoa to one half, and orange food colouring to the other.

Add half of the cocoa to a lined cake tin in blobs here and there. Add all of orange and then add rest of cocoa mix on top.

Bake for 30 minutes.

My sous chef/bowl licker!

I iced our cake with just icing sugar, cocoa and water. Then went about making grass, carrots and a bunny with fondant we had left over in the freezer, from a Cake to the Rescue cake. This is what ours turned out like, pretty darn good if I say so myself!

Easter Bunny funny

I made this up last year, when I wasn't a blogger. I had seen it as a cartoon on a tee shirt at Cotton On, and recreated it at home. With Easter coming up I thought I would share it, hopefully it gives you a giggle like it did me.

I had no problems biting the rear end and ears of a chocolate rabbit and eating them. There is definitely something special about the taste of Easter chocolate, looking at this reminded me of that taste and smell. Yum!

I have been able to resist all the chocolate choking up the aisles at Woolies so far. I haven't had chocolate for nearly two months, I am not tempted by it and am not missing it. Yet. I weighed in this morning, and have lost ten kilos up to date.

Izzy has noticed all the shiny Easter merchandise. I keep telling her we can't buy or eat it them until Easter and I am getting away with that little white lie. Plus I don't need the temptation sitting in the wardrobe at the end of my bed, I have always had to go buy more by the time Easter Sunday arrives!