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Baking with Martha Collison at the Creme Egg Cafe

Friday 19 February 2016
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So if you decided to do Lent traditionally and have given up chocolate, you might want to look away now. Eyes closed? Ok so for those of you who still have them open I've got some drool worthy shots for you to indulge in, as theres a very cool pop up in Soho- it's only an offical Creme Egg Cafe!


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Yep, Cadbury's have opened up a Creme Egg Cafe to celebrate Creme Egg's being back on the shelves again.

As you probably guessed its theme is all things Creme Egg from the walls, to the tables and chairs. Plus there's a host of silly Creme Egg art that will get you in a cracking mood... sorry.

I was invited to pop down and do some baking with Great British Bake Off's finalist Martha Collinson as shes made some recipes for the cafe which of course all revolve around Creme Eggs.

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My mission was to bake this cake.

A Creme Egg Goo-riffic Drizzle Cake. Hmm it looks awfully perfect. If you want to bake at home, i've put the recipe at the end of this post for you.

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Well no time like the present, let's get cracking. It's going to keep happening...

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Once Me and my partner in baking crime Nancy had mixed all the ingredients and transferred into our tin (Not without a few spills), it was time to let the magic happen in the oven and us to head of an explore the cafe.

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The cafe has all sorts of weird and wonderful hidden treats, including Creme Egg shoots.

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Maybe leave this one alone though!

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Downstairs is for takeaways and upstairs is the seating area for a sit down snack. They serve a variety of Creme Egg based treats such a Creme Egg rocky road, cake and brownies.

But the real deal is their Creme Egg toastie. I know, I know, it sounds so weird, but trust me, its pretty darn good.

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However up another flight of stairs is where you really want to go.

There is a ball pool.

I repeat A BALL POOL

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Theres not point in trying to play it cool, this requires all total silliness.

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Possibly the scariest photo you've ever seen. Sorry about that.

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After spending quite possibly an hour in the pool, hogging it completely, our cakes were cooled and ready to be iced. 

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Now I have a confession, as we bounded downstairs, we were greeted with looks of mourning. Apparently mine and Nancy's cake had sank beyond repair... clearly not going on the Bake Off any time soon, so this one above is actually Martha's spare which she donated too us! 

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So with our expert made cake in our not so expert hands, we set about making that Creme Egg fondant. 

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Sorry Nancy but that face just showed how much you did not like the icing job. 

Trying to redeem ourselves we did our best egg splattered art work. 

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And finally garnishing with a cracked Creme Egg.

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Ta da! What do you think? Not bad eh... well I guess it wasn't technically all our work. 

Either way it was an egg-cellent experience. I'm done.

The Creme Egg cafe is open now:

26 Greek Street 
W1D 5DE London
United Kingdom
Martha's Creme Egg Drizzle Cake Recipe

Prep time: 25 mins
Baking time: 35 mins

Ingredients:
For the Sponge:
  • 160g caster sugar 
  • 60ml sunflower oil (any unflavoured oil will do)
  • 1 egg
  • 100g plain flour
  • 35g cocoa powder
  • 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  •  100ml milk
For the Icing:
  • 1 Cadbury Creme Egg
  • 100g icing sugar
  • Orange food colouring
Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180oC/160oC/gas mark 4 and grease and line a loaf tin with a strip of baking parchment
2. Whisk together the oil, caster sugar and egg in a large bowl until the mixture looks smooth and well combined
3. In a separate bowl, sieve together the flour, cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt. Add half of the dry mix to the wet mix and whisk to combine, and then add all the milk. Mix in the remaining dry ingredients and stir until the batter is smooth
4. Pour the batter into the prepared tin, and then bake for 30-35 minutes until the cake has risen and a skewer inserted comes out clean. Leave to cool briefly in the tin before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely
5. To make the icing, divide the icing sugar between two small bowls and add 1-2 teaspoons of water to each. You might need to add a little more water – you want a thick paste to drizzle. Add enough orange food colouring to one of the bowls to make a pale orange icing
6. Use a piping bag to drizzle the icing over the cool cake, allowing it to drip down the edges. Cut the Cadbury Creme Egg in half and pull it apart to encourage the inside to seep out – then place it on top of the cake!

7 comments:

  1. This is my dreams come true. I AM GOING IMMEDIATELY. Thank you for bringing this into my life. Lots of love, Andrea xxx

    Andrea's Passions

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  2. OMG that place looks magical! I swear I would never leave. Your cake looks amazing! I need to come to London immediately. Great post!
    Steph x.
    marvelsteph.blogspot.co.nz

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  3. That place looks so fun, loving all the puns - it has to be done! Lovely to see Martha too as I always wonder what happens to the runners up afterwards.

    Laura xx | Loved By Laura

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  4. A creme egg shoot sounds ideal! Might try install one in my house haha. I'm doing a vegan challenge at the moment (9 days left..) so may just have to make this as soon as I'm back to eating all the chocolate again xxx
    Lucy @ La Lingua | Travel, Food, Italy

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  5. Why do I always miss the events you're at?! Been dying to meet you for ages...looked like such a fun event and HELLO creme egg toasties! Hopefully catch you at an event soon :)
    Elle Bloggs x

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  6. Ah this looks like an amazing time, the ball pool rocks!! :-) xx

    Helen | Helens Fashion & Beauty Blog

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