Easy to Decorate Easter Egg Cake
By Amanda Formaro, familycorner.com
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.
Instructions:
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".
Smooht 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,
above). 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!
