With decadent chocolate and fluffy buttercream frosting, this Cadbury Egg Chocolate Loaf Cake is topped with lovely pastel chocolate eggs! I love a loaf cake, because it’s so much easier to cut and serve than regular cake! And, it’s perfect to have with coffee, too. I have very detailed step-by-step instructions below, or you can scroll down to the recipe at the bottom, if you prefer! I can assure you this loaf cake will become one of your family’s Easter traditions! It’s the perfect size to make and drop off to anyone hosting Easter dinner or an egg hunt, too. You’re going to love it!!
How to Make Cadbury Egg Chocolate Loaf Cake
It’s really quite easy to make this Cadbury Egg Chocolate Loaf Cake. The most difficult part is not eating it while you’re waiting for it to cool! Ha! You only need a handful of very common ingredients, that you probably already have at home.
Ingredients for Cadbury Egg Chocolate Loaf Cake
LOAF INGREDIENTS
- Flour
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Baking powder
- Eggs, room temperature
- Granulated sugar
- Salted butter, melted
- mini chocolate chips
- Milk, room temperature
- Vanilla
- Hot water
FROSTING INGREDIENTS
- Salted butter, slightly softened
- Vanilla
- Powdered sugar
- Milk (as needed)
- Gel food coloring – You can choose your colors!
- Cadbury mini eggs
Instructions for Cadbury Egg Chocolate Loaf Cake
Preheat the oven to 350°F . Grease a standard loaf pan and line the bottom and all sides with parchment paper. Combine the flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder in a large mixing bowl and stir with a whisk. Set aside.
Combine the eggs and sugar in a medium mixing bowl and stir with a whisk just until combined.
Add in the melted butter, milk and vanilla extract. Mix until combined.
Pour the wet ingredients into flour mixture and stir with a whisk. Once nearly combined, add the hot water and stir well until totally combined. Add chocolate chips and stir until combined.
Pour the mixture into the loaf pan and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean which is inserted in the center. Let the cake cool completely in the pan for one hour. Remove from pan and let cool another hour before frosting.
For the frosting:
Combine butter and vanilla in a large mixing bowl and mix on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add powdered sugar and mix on low until sugar is just combined. Then, mix on high until frosting is fluffy. Add milk as needed, depending on your preferred consistency.
Spoon into 2-3 bowls, depending on how many pastel colors of frosting you would like to have.
Pipe onto the top of the loaf and place chocolate eggs on top in rows, so the loaf cake can easily be sliced without cutting through the eggs. Sprinkle additional crushed Cadbury Eggs on top for extra texture, if desired.
What is a loaf cake?
Of course it goes without saying that a loaf cake is baked in a loaf pan. However, the ratio of flour, fat, and sugar is different than a regular cake, resulting in a much more dense texture. This allows the cake to easily be cut into thin slices and still hold its shape.
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Cadbury Egg Chocolate Loaf Cake
With decadent chocolate and fluffy buttercream frosting, this Cadbury Egg Chocolate Loaf Cake is topped with lovely pastel chocolate eggs! Perfect to give to your Easter hosts and to bring to all your egg hunt events!
Ingredients
- LOAF CAKE INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup + 1 and ½ tablespoons salted butter, melted
- ½ cup milk, room temperature
- 1 and ½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
- ¼ cup hot water
- FROSTING INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup salted butter, slightly softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1-2 tablespoons Milk (as needed)
- Gel food coloring
- 1 cup Cadbury mini eggs
Instructions
LOAF CAKE
- Preheat the oven to 350°F . Grease a standard loaf pan and line the bottom and all sides with parchment paper. Combine the flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder in a large mixing bowl and stir with a whisk. Set aside.
- Combine the eggs and sugar in a medium mixing bowl and stir with a whisk just until combined.
- Add in the melted butter, milk and vanilla extract. Mix until combined.
- Pour the wet ingredients into flour mixture and stir with a whisk. Once nearly combined, add the hot water and stir well until totally combined. Add chocolate stips and stir well.
- Pour the mixture into the loaf pan and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean which is inserted in the center. Let the cake cool completely in the pan for one hour. Remove from pan and let cool another hour before frosting.
FROSTING
- Combine butter and vanilla in a large mixing bowl and mix on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add powdered sugar and mix on low until sugar is just combined. Then, mix on high until frosting is fluffy. Add milk as needed, depending on your preferred consistency.
- Spoon into 2-3 bowls, depending on how many colors you would like for your Cadbury Egg Chocolate Loaf Cake.
- Pipe onto the top of the loaf and place chocolate eggs on top in rows, so the loaf cake can easily be sliced.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 10 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 745Total Fat: 36gSaturated Fat: 21gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 12gCholesterol: 94mgSodium: 302mgCarbohydrates: 108gFiber: 3gSugar: 90gProtein: 6g
