Easter Nest Cake With Sour Cream -Royal Icing and Pistachios
By: Aldy
Published: Sunday, April 17, 2011 - 8:41pm

Ingredients




1 - Nest Sweet Cake Recipe:
1 1/2 cups All-purpose flour/ Plain flour
110 grams /4 oz. Unsalted butter* at room temperature
2 Large eggs
2/3 cup Soft brown sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons Baking powder
1/2 cup Sour Cream
Royal Icing-* recipe below
Unshelled Pistachios,chopped (optional)
Flowers and Eggs to decorate the cake
2 - Royal Icing Recipe:
1 Medium Egg White
3/4 cup Icing Sugar/ confectioner’s sugar
1 teaspoon Lemon juice
Few drops of green food coloring

Preparation

1 Nest Sweet Cake Recipe Preparation: 2 Preheat oven to 190 C/ 375 F. And Lightly grease a ring cake pan.Set aside. 3 In a medium bowl--and using an electric mixer-- beat sugar, eggs and butter until creamy. 4 Add sour cream and flour and mix  for a couple of minutes. 5 Pour  mixture into cake pan. And bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through when tested with a skewer. 6 Let cool on a wire rack for about 10 minutes. Then pour the royal icing/glaze onto the cake, pistachios and decorate as desired. 7 Royal Icing Preparation Preparation: 8 Using a standard mixer, beat egg white until soft stiff peaks is form. Add lemon juice and sugar and food coloring. Beat for a couple of seconds more. Use as soon as it is made.

About


This homemade Easter Cake is absolutely delicious and it can be made in less than 20 minutes- What could be better than that? Share with your family and friends or give as a wonderful gift to someone special :)