Chocolate Parcel Cake

• 3/4 cup butter or margarine
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour sifted
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup 2% milk
• 7 ounces chocolate bars mixed, 5 oz roughly chopped, remainder sliced
• 10 1/2 ounces marzipan
• 2 teaspoons cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons apricot jam
• 4 red licorice laces thin

1. Preheat oven to 350u0b0F. Grease and flour a 10x4 inch loaf pan.
2. Cream butter, sugar and a pinch of salt until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, until smooth. Fold in flour and baking powder alternately with milk. Fold in chopped chocolate bars. Transfer to loaf pan, smooth surface and bake for 50-60 mins. Let cool for 10 mins then remove from pan to cool completely.
3. Meanwhile, sprinkle marzipan with cocoa powder. Roll out thinly into a 20x12 inch rectangle. Bring jam with 1 tbsp water to a boil. Place cake on a serving plate and coat with jam. Enclose cake in marzipan. Press edges together and shape into a parcel. Trim excess. Arrange licorice laces to suggest an opened parcel. Decorate with sliced candy bars and dust with cocoa powder.

butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder, milk, chocolate bars mixed, marzipan, cocoa powder, apricot, red licorice

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Chocolate-Parcel-Cake-1399649 (may not work)