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7 Easter Cake and Cupcake Ideas
Sep 6, 2024
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Here are seven easy ideas for Easter cakes and cupcakes
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You don't need any decorating experience for these, and you can even do them with kids
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Let's start with cakes. You can do this one even if you don't have any cake pans by pouring your batter into a baking dish or casserole dish
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Add your favourite Easter treats, like strawberries, mini eggs, these fun cream eggs, or Easter-coloured Eminems
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Bake your cake as normal, and don't worry if the treats look a bit funky when they're. come out of the oven because next, after the cake cools, spread or pipe frosting on top
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I'm using a different colour for each section of the cake, piping with different techniques
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but all of these are with a start-tip, a 1M. The final result is colourful and textured and fun, and of course, the best bit is cutting
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into the cake and tasting each of the ingredients. Which one would you choose first
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Turn a simple frosted cake into an East Egg cake with a spoonful of cocoa
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powder and a few drops of water, making a chocolate liquid that you can dip a paintbrush into
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and then flick all over your cake to make speckled frosting. I definitely recommend covering the
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countertop and the wall behind the cake while you do this. You can flick the paintbrush
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towards the cake or tap it against your finger, causing a spray of the brown liquid to cover
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the cake. When you're mixing the cocoa powder and the water, you're looking for a liquid rather
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than a paste, so make sure you use enough water, but don't use too much or you'll dilute it and you
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won have a strong brown color The cake looks stunning just like this maybe with a border around the bottom or you can add any of the other decorations you seen I piping a chocolate buttercream nest using a rope border technique and then arranging some mini eggs inside
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The Easter coloured mini eggs were sold out, so I'm using rainbow mini eggs instead
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tapping a paintbrush of edible glitter over them to make the colours a bit lighter, and the frosting nest, too
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There are two easy techniques on this next cake, one bag frosting
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where you layer different colours of frosting within a piping bag, just a small amount of each
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to create a gradient of colour on your cake with just one piping tip and one piping bag
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The second technique is piping drop flowers, which you can do with any rounded start-tip
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like this 2D tip. Rest the tip on a silicon mat or a piece of parchment paper
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squeeze the bag and twist it to make the petals curve around
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As you pipe flower after flower, you'll see different colours within the flowers
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because each new colour will push down through the middle of the colour before it in the piping bag
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Put the piped flowers into the freezer for about 10 minutes to chill and harden
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and then you can lift them up and press them onto a frosted cake. They'll only stay cold for a minute or so
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and then when they start to soften, you'll need to put them back into the freezer for a few more minutes to chill and firm up again
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This design uses just one piping bag and piping tip, but the result is gorgeous
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To incorporate Easter colours onto your cake, use a striped cake comb a few times on your frosting until the grooves are neat
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and then put the cake into the freezer for 15 minutes. Type coloured buttercream into the grooves and if you only want a few stripes you can just pipe the background colour of frosting into the other grooves And as you smooth the frosting the colourful stripes will get neater and neater but on the rest of the cake
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the piped frosting will blend into the background frosting, so the stripes will disappear and create a plain, smooth surface instead
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Use your leftover colors to pipe some swells on top of the cake, squeezing them into rows on a piece of plastic wrap
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and then roll it into a log and cut off one end, and drop that
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end down into a piping bag fitted with a star-shaped piping tip like a 1M
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Pipe swells onto the top of the cake and all of the colours will come through
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matching the colours of the stripes on the cake and using up your leftovers
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Now for some cupcake ideas. The easiest Easter cupcake to make is a simple bunny
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made by swirling buttercream or any other frosting, onto a cupcake using a star tip like a 1M
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Then cut a marshmallow in half diagonally, or in this case I have a little
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a jumbo marshmallow so I'm cutting a piece off each end instead. Pour some sugar into a bowl and add a drop of pink food colouring and stir it around until
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it's all pink. It's important to use a freshly opened bag of marshmallows for this so that they're
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soft and the inside is sticky. Next press the cut sides of each piece of marshmallow into the
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bowl and the pink sugar will stick to it. Now they really look like bunny is
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Poke these into a frosted cupcake and ta-da! This one is so easy you can do it with your kids
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and they will love it. These are simple, but adorable. And delicious
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This is my very vanilla cake, and the recipe is on British Girl Bakes For a more sophisticated Easter bunny design pipe a blob of buttercream onto a cupcake and then flip the cupcake over onto a piece of parchment paper or wax paper or baking paper
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on a tray or cutting board. Put it into the freezer for 30 minutes and then peel the cupcake
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away from the paper and you'll have a beautifully flat, smooth surface to decorate
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Cut an Easter Bunny out of another piece of parchment paper. You can draw it first if you want to
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and as you cut, leave the surrounding paper intact. Press this down onto the cupcake and you have a homemade stencil
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Spread some frosting over it and scrape off the excess to leave a thin layer behind
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Peel the stencil off and voila! To make this a bit fancier, you can pipe on a flower using any star-shaped tip
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twisting it as you squeeze to make the petals fan out sideways. Add some details to the face with a toothpick
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Or if you have a very, very thin paint brush you can paint them on with edible gold paint
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or use an edible marker. This design is almost too pretty to eat
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Another quick cupcake design is to pipe a swirl onto a cupcake, just one lap around the edge or you can do a tall swirl if you prefer
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and then add some chocolate Easter eggs, like these Cadbury's mini eggs. You don't have to press hard to attach these
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because the buttercream is still soft and sticky. I hope you've seen some ideas you'd like to try
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