Cake #23 - Pastel Decorated Easter Egg Cake

Cake # 23 - Pastel Decorated Easter Egg Cake

This one's a fun one at Easter. I have done these egg cakes for years, sometimes with 3 smaller decorated Easter eggs. Now that I have a special "Wilton" cake pan shaped like an egg, I just do one. (I used to do a sheet cake and carve it oval....what a pain.) Normally in our family, one slice of a single layer cake that is not filled is plenty, and this one serves so easily.

The fun part about this cake was the decorating. I just did my white buttercream (using clear vanilla to keep it as white as possible) as a "blank slate" on the egg itself and made multiple (4) colors of tinted frosting in the typical Easter pastels--all strong colors for this one. I started with the yellow with a star tip, then blue with a thick writing tip. The pink was done with the star tip again and the green with the smooth writing tip for variety. Of course a star tip was used for all the shells, which is easy to do if you area sure to use a coupler on your icing bag for all 4 colors. Fortunately I have accumulated many couplers over the years, and at least 2 of each star and smooth writing tips in various sizes.


I started with the yellow and then put on the bunny decorations to ensure I had enough space and the bunnies didn't end up stuck in any of my zig zags.

 Then came the blue.












Time to add the pink.

I had preplanned to do the outline of shells in an every other color pattern so for each shell I did I had to imagine how big 3 others would be so that I left enough room in between colors for the other colors.  Here's the cake up until the last color--green--was added.

I added the green and finished the shell border, but felt it was still lacking something and there was too much white space left, thus the green polka dots.  I had written the "Happy Easter" at the blue stage again to ensure I had enough room to write it without covering up any of the pattern.

Sometimes I make my cakes a requested and sometimes just as inspired by certain random things. This was a great example of the inspiration that came from the bunny candies themselves. The colors blended very well and it looked really great.   I was extra proud of how this one turned out. :-)