Wow the kids and your friends with this
super easy Easter egg cake. All the fun is in the decorating. Be creative
and use whatever colors and decorating fashion you wish.
You will need
your favorite box cake, any flavor
yellow and green food coloring
white icing (recipe below)
green, orange, yellow, and pink decorator gel
white decorator frosting
decorating tip
gumdrops
silver non pareils
round cake pans
Note: This cake uses one round cake pan. Therefore, you can make two Easter
egg cakes, or make cupcakes with the remaining batter.
Prepare cake mix as directed. Pour half the prepared batter into round cake
pan and bake as directed on box. Allow to cool thoroughly before frosting
and decorating.
Prepare the white icing by following the recipe below. When finished, remove
3/4 cup of the frosting to a seperate bowl. Add a two drops of green food
coloring to the small bowl and stir until thoroughly mixed. Add three drops
of yellow food coloring to the large bowl of white frosting, stir thoroughly.
White Buttercream Icing
16-ounce package confectioners sugar
6 tbsp butter or margarine, softened
3 to 4 tbsp milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp salt
In a medium bowl, with mixer at medium-low speed, beat all ingredients
until the icing is smooth and of easy spreading consistency. Add a few drops
of red food coloring, 3 for light pink, 6 or so for dark pink.
Prep
When cake is COMPLETELY cooled, cut a straight line, off center, down the
cake so that you are removing a rectangular piece from the center of the
circle. (See photo) Place rectangle at the bottom of your cake platter, position
remaining half circles together to form oval. Place above the rectangle as
if sitting on it.
Decorate
Using the green frosting, carefully frost the rectangle. using the yellow
frosting, completely cover the "egg". Smoot frosting with a flat cake spreader
or a smooth butter knife.
To decorate the cake, simply pipe designs in zig zags, swirls and lines across
the cake with decorator gel and decorator frosting. Use non pareils to dot
across the cake's surface. Use decorator gels and dot in alternating colors
along the decorator frosting piping. Cut the ends off of gumdrops to decorate
the top of the cake (see photo). Line gumdrops along the bottom of the green
"grass".
You can decorate the egg however you please. use a different color for the
frosting if you prefer. Creativity is the key!
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