Easter cakesicles

Put 18 g butter and 25 g raw sugar into a mixing bowl and whisk them together for 1 to 2 minutes. We're using a third of the dough from our Easter Donuts here: you'll find the quantities for the whole recipe there too.

Add 1 g baking powder, 1 pinch baking soda, 1 pinch salt and 27 g milk. Then add 17 g beaten egg (one third of an egg) and 1/3 tsp cinnamon powder and whisk everything for 2 minutes. With such small amounts, precision scales or a measuring spoon scale are a great help.

Finally, add 43 g flour, 17 g finely grated carrot and 10 g ground hazelnuts, and whisk everything again for about 30 seconds. The grated carrot keeps the cake wonderfully moist.

Preheat your oven to 200 °C fan. Place the Silicone mold «Carota 20» on a perforated baking tray and spray it with non-stick spray so nothing sticks later.

Fill the dough into a piping bag and pipe it into each cavity until it is 3/4 full. This leaves room for the dough to rise. Bake the carrots for 10 minutes in the middle of the oven.

After baking, carefully trim off the dough that overhangs the mould with a knife: this gives the carrots a flat back. Then place the mould in the freezer for about 1 hour so the cakes come out more easily. Remove the well-chilled carrots from the mould and return them to the freezer straight away while you prepare the decoration.

Put 1 pack of orange Deco melts into a fairly tall container, for example a measuring cup: this way you can fully dip the carrots later. Heat the Deco melts in the microwave at 600 watts for 1 minute, stir, and repeat until everything is completely melted.

Take the carrots out of the freezer. Insert a toothpick into each carrot, where the green will go later. Dip them into the melted Deco melts until fully coated, scrape off the excess at the edge and place them on baking paper. Leave them to set at room temperature for about 10 minutes.

Place the light green Chocolate flavour pen in a measuring cup of hot water for 5 minutes so that the chocolate becomes liquid. Draw small carrot stems on baking paper and place them in the fridge for 10 minutes to set.

Carefully widen the hole where the stick was during dipping with a toothpick, and insert the stems into this opening. There they are: carrots that look deceptively real! Packed in a box, they also make a sweet Easter gift.