Easter Egg Cake
A classic robin's egg cake perfect for easter featuring the most moist vanilla cake covered in a perfectly sweet vanilla buttercream.
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 10 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
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- 1 2/3 cup all-purpose flour (213g)
- 1 cup sugar (228g)
- 1/4 tsp baking soda (2g)
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder (6g)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter (176g, room temperature)
- 3 egg whites
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sour cream (133g)
- 1/2 cup whole milk (113g)
- 2 lbs confectioners sugar (907g)
- 1 lb butter (456g, unsalted, room temperature)
- 3 tsp vanilla
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1/4 tsp kosher salt
- Blue food coloring
- ½ cup coconut (40g, toasted, sweetened)
- 2 tsp cocoa powder (nice quality)
- 4 tsp vanilla extract
- 6 chocolate eggs (mini)
Instructions
- 1
For the Cake:
- 2
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- 3
Spread coconut flakes out on a baking sheet. Cook for about 5-10 minutes mixing once in between, they will toast quickly. Set aside to cool.
- 4
Increase temp to 340 degrees F. Butter and flour three 6-inch pans. I use cake strips on my pans for more even baking as well.
- 5
Sift the dry ingredients (including sugar) together in a large bowl.
- 6
Beat the wet ingredients together in a medium bowl.
- 7
Add the wet to the dry and mix until just combined.
- 8
Divide the mixture evenly into the cake pans.
- 9
Bake at for about 25-30 minutes or until the centers are springy to the touch.
- 10
For the Vanilla Buttercream:
- 11
Beat the butter until light and fluffy. Add the confectioners' sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, 1/4 tsp salt, and milk. Mix.
- 12
Add blue food coloring until you get robins egg blue.
- 13
Transfer to a piping bag. Snip off the tip.
- 14
For the Assembly:
- 15
Pipe buttercream between each cake layer.
- 16
Pipe an outer layer and smooth out with a bench scraper.
- 17
Mix cocoa powder and vanilla or alcohol. Using a paint brush, splatter the cake and chocolate eggs to create a speckled look.
- 18
Chill for about 10-15 minutes.
- 19
Pipe a ring of buttercream on the cake. Press toasted coconut flakes onto ring. Create a nest shape.
- 20
Add eggs to the inside of the nest.