I made a basket cake for our Easter celebration in the church. I imagine this cake to look like a real basket so I decided to make the base color to be brown and since I like the pink color I put a little touch of pink color on it. I used the whipped cream … Read more
I have wanted to make gum paste calla lilies since I made only one from cake decorating class last July. Easter is here and here they are in multiple colors too! I wanted them in different colors since Easter has bright colors. I started making these about three days prior to Easter and a few were made the night … Read more
Mom, I would like a nature cake! These were the words out of my soon-to-be 9 year old son’s mouth. He is a huge nature and outdoor lover and when I asked him to specify what a “nature” cake looked like to him he told me to “wing it.” I have been making my children’s … Read more
I made this Easter Basket cake from two 8″ rounds, trimmed a bit to make a basket shape. Basket weave on sides with white/teal and just a simple S-curve edging at the top of the basket. I used an old basket handle and iced that, grass-tip for grass on top and sprinkled with flower sprinkles, chocolate … Read more
I have always wanted to make a basket cake for Easter and this is my version of an Easter basket cake! I made a pound cake and it has three layers with butter cream frosting in between. I had so much fun making it! I made it my Easter centerpiece and it tasted as good as it … Read more
This is an Easter basket cake. I made this cake for our Easter Church celebration.I used a basket weave piping from whipped cream that we can purchase easily here in Japan on the sides. My hand hurt and got tired decorating the sides because this is my first time doing this basket weaving. At the top I … Read more
I made this Easter basket cake for this past Easter. I made the “basket” portion of the cake using lemon cake mix and half of the sport ball cake pan. I then shaved off about 1/2″ off the rounded edge of the cake to make a flat surface for the cake to stand. I used … Read more
This Easter Basket cake was so easy. I made 3 eight inch round cakes. I put a box of pudding in the box cake mix to make the cake a little bit denser. Then frosted the outside of the basket with the basket tip. Then I used the grass tip for the top of the … Read more
As impressive as it may look, this cake was very easy and satisfying to make. 1. slightly round the edges of your cake. 2. cover it with a crumb coat (this is a thin layerof icing which gathers the crumbs and prevents them from coming throught in the finished layer of icing in the cake) … Read more
My 8 year old daughter’s school were doing an Easter display and asked all the children to make an Easter Basket out of an material they liked. My daughter asked if we could do ours out of cake!! We made three round chocolate cakes and filled them with chocolate butter cream. We then carved a … Read more
This is an Easter birthday cake. I didn’t want the usual Easter cakes, I wanted to do something different. This is just a round layer cake with a chocolate ganache icing. I did a basket weave around the cake. The birds are made with marzipan and painted with food coloring. The nest is toasted coconut … Read more
For this cake you will need: egg shaped mini cake pan (Wilton), 8″ round cake pan, three boxes of your favorite cake mix (or home made is fine too), lots and lots of white icing, one tub of chocolate icing, basket weaving tip, star tip, multi open grass tip, jumbo round sprinkles (Wiltons) (or any … Read more