Easy Easter Cake

The ultimate Easy Easter Cake! Our super easy Easter mini egg cake is perfect for when you want to bake a cake but without a whole lot of effort!

WHY YOU'LL LOVE OUR EASY EASTER CAKE RECIPE

⭐️ It's made with quick and easy cheat ingredients! This chocolate Easter cake is packed to bursting with cheat ingredients. And I'm not even going to apologise for how cheat-y and easy this Easter egg cake is to make.

⭐️  Super cute - this chocolate bunny cake recipe is so cute! (and delicious) it's one of our favourite Easter cakes and bakes.

⭐️  Kids love to help out - so if you fancy getting in the kitchen and cheating your way to a super easy Easter themed cake - then grab our little mini egg cake recipe below and enjoy!

EQUIPMENT NEEDED

• Mixing Bowl
• Wooden Spoon
• Baking Tin
• Cooling Rack
• Spatula

EASY EASTER CAKE INGREDIENTS

To make our easy Easter Cake you will need...

• Betty Crocker Red Velvet Cake mix (you can swap this for vanilla sponge, carrot cake or chocolate cake)
• Betty Crocker Vanilla Icing - you can swap this for any frosting you like
• Large Malteser Bunnies
• Mini Malteser Bunnies
• Cadbury mini eggs
  • Anything else you fancy throwing on - hey, this is your spring cake, you add on what you like - fancy some glitter? Throw it on, want some sprinkles, then shake away. Do it your way!

For full quantities see recipe card below

HOW TO MAKE AN EASY EASTER CAKE

You'll just LOVE how easy this mini egg chocolate cake is to make!

• Mix up and bake the Betty Crocker red velvet cake as per the box instructions.
• Once the cake is cool, cover in the vanilla icing, no need to be neat here, just slap it on, let the kids get involved.
• Decorate the cake with chocolate bunnies, mini eggs and anything else you want. (see we told you it was easy!)

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EASTER CAKE RECIPE TIPS AND INGREDIENT SWAPS

Helpful recipe tips and ingredient swaps so you can make your Easter cake just the way you want it!

Make your own sponge cake - if you prefer homemade cake try our easy chocolate cake here. Or make this using carrot cake, lemon cake or coconut cake. You could even do lots of layers, sandwiched together with frosting or whipped cream.

Choose different frostings - you could use homemade buttercream, cream cheese frosting, or any packet of ready made cake frosting you like.

Decorate it how you like - decorate with any kind of Easter decorations you like - mini eggs, chocolate bunnies, Easter chicks, Creme Eggs, even cracked Easter egg chocolate or any Easter candy.

Add some sparkle - throw on a little sparkle with edible glitter or even light a sparkler or two.

You might also love our Easter Tree ideas!

HOW TO SERVE YOUR EASY EASTER CAKE

This easy Easter cake is perfect for serving at any Easter celebrations.

• As an part of an Easter dessert table at a buffet to celebrate Easter Egg hunts.
• As a really easy Easter Sunday dessert.

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SPRING CAKE DECORATIONS

When thinking of Easter cake decorating ideas I think it's always nice if they're edible and preferably chocolate!

Covering the Easter cake in little chocolate bunnies, Cadbury mini eggs and pastel cake sprinkles just looks so pretty – rustic but pretty! And really there’s not much better to eat at Easter time than Cadbury mini egg cakes.

For more traditional Easter cake decorating ideas we just love these Easter themed cakes….

• Mary Berry’s Simnel Cake
• Beautiful Speckled Cake from Preppy Kitchen

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More Easy Easter bakes to make

• White chocolate nest cakes stuffed with Cadbury mini eggs - we just love these easy Easter bake and the kids love making these too.

• Dinosaur nest cakes - because sometimes a dinosaur nest is just a whole lot better than a chicken....

• Mini Egg Cheesecake - a super easy no bake Easter cheesecake recipe

• Giant Cookie - make our giant cookie loaded with white chocolate chunks and mini eggs here.

• Waffle Board (ad feature recipe) - throw together an epic Easter dessert board loaded with waffles, mini chocolate eggs and an amazing peanut butter drizzle.
• Air Fryer Chocolate Bark
• Easter Bark