Hop into Easter with this Cinnamon Roll Cake!
How’s this for an Easter egg hunt…
Easy 35 mins Serves 10
Hop into Easter with this Cinnamon Roll Cake!
Easy 35 mins Serves 10
Ingredients
For the cake
- Round cake tin, pan, baking dish or bowl that is suitable to go in the oven
- 2 loaves of Roberts thick White bread
- 1 ½ tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 ½ tablespoon Mixed spice
- 6 tablespoons melted butter, for brushing
- 150g caster sugar
- 150g soft brown sugar
- 200g raisins
- 100g plain flour
- 2 large eggs
- 300ml milk
- Cream cheese frosting (optional)
- 250g icing sugar
- 230g cream cheese, softened
- 110g butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
To decorate
- Mini eggs
- Galaxy golden chocolate eggs
- Chocolate sprinkles
Method
Get your oven fired up to 200°C/gas mark 6. Grease your baking dish with butter. Cut off the crusts from your white bread slices (number depends on size of baking dish) and use a rolling pin to begin flattening them out and then cut in half-length ways. Take two lengths of flatten bread and overlap in the middle (at the shorter ends). Use the rolling pin to flatten two together to make one longer strip of bread.
Meanwhile, mix the caster sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon and mixed spices together in a small bowl. Sprinkle 3 tablespoons of the cinnamon sugar mixture in the bottom of the prepared baking dish.
Now, brush the surface of the bread (front and back) with melted butter. Take a length of bread and sprinkle the cinnamon/sugar mixture over one side of the butter-brushed bread. Sprinkle raisins over the length of the bread.
Roll the bread around the filling to form a log, set to one side and repeat. Once all the bread is formed into rolls, place the rolls in the prepared baking dish and sprinkle on top the remaining cinnamon sugar mixture. Bake in the preheated oven until rolls are set approximately 10 minutes.
Whilst the rolls are in the oven, whisk together the plain flour, eggs and milk to form a thick batter. Remove the rolls from the oven and carefully pour the batter around the rolls and in-between any gaps. Make sure not to pour directly over the rolls (otherwise the swirl will get covered). You’re now ready to pop the baking dish back in the oven and bake for approximately 25 minutes or until the skewer comes out clean.
To decorate
To make the cream cheese frosting, beat icing sugar, cream cheese, softened butter and vanilla extract together in a bowl until frosting is smooth and of a thick consistency. Pipe the cream cheese frosting on top of the warm cinnamon rolls to create a nest effect. Tip: follow the swirls to make neat nests. Decorate with your choice of mini eggs, chocolate sprinkles or golden galaxy eggs (our personal favourite).
This dessert is best served warm, so bake until the skewer comes out clean, and enjoy!
