Fake Bakes archive note — 2023: This recipe records a Tesco £10 Easter challenge from 2023. Products, pack sizes, prices and availability change, so treat the shopping list as a historical snapshot rather than a current Tesco price guide.
Allergen & safety note: Reese’s peanut-butter eggs contain peanuts; check every current packaged ingredient for allergens and cross-contact warnings. An adult should handle knives and melting marshmallows. Melted marshmallow can cause burns, so let it cool until safe to handle before touching it.
Easter is probably my favourite time of year to bake. The promise of spring, longer days, and—most importantly—the abundance of EASTER EGGS.
It’s also the most fun time for fake baking. We’d previously created mini egg nests and eggs on toast. In 2023 I wanted to take the “eggs on toast” theme even further—with FRIED eggs on toast.
I could’ve cheated with Haribo fried eggs, but they blew the £10 budget. So I gambled with marshmallows instead. Sticky, messy, chaotic—great fun. I originally bought Galaxy caramel-filled mini eggs so I could scoop out the centres for the “yolks”, but *somebody* had eaten them. So I had to improvise with Reese’s peanut butter eggs.
And honestly? For £10 at Tesco, this Easter fake bake absolutely banged.
Fake Bake Recipe – Fried Egg Easter Cake
Ingredients
2 x ready-made chocolate cakes
1 tub (400g) ready-made chocolate frosting
Madeira cake loaf
Mini marshmallows
Mini Reese’s chocolate eggs
Method
1. Set up your decorating station with a turntable, palette knife, scraper, cake board, spoon, piping bag (small star nozzle) and spatula.
2. Unbox the cakes. Add a dollop of frosting to the cake board and place the first cake on top. Remove any chocolate curls and set aside.
3. Loosen the frosting in a bowl. Pipe frosting around the top edge and stack the second cake. Remove the curls from that one too. Coat the sides in frosting and smooth with a palette knife or scraper. No need to frost the top. Chill to set.
4. An adult should melt the mini marshmallows in the microwave or over a double boiler. Let the mixture cool until it is safe to handle but still workable. With lightly damp hands, pull off small dollops, roll them into balls, then flatten between two sheets of greased baking paper. These become your fried egg “whites”.
5. Halve the Reese’s eggs. Scoop out the peanut butter, roll it into small balls with damp hands, and place them on the marshmallow whites to create the “yolks”.
6. Slice the Madeira loaf.
7. Pipe remaining frosting around the top and base of the chilled cake.
8. Arrange Madeira slices on top, add a small swirl of frosting to each, and place a fried egg on every slice.
9. Finish with Madeira crumbs, mini eggs and the saved chocolate curls.
So what do you think of our Fried Egg FAKE BAKE? I’m obsessed with how the fried eggs turned out—though I do wish the yolks didn’t resemble pigeon poop in colour.
Lots of love,
Reshmi xoxo
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