The Easter Egg Cake is a fun way to impress your family for your holiday celebration this year. Made with a cake mix and a fun egg-shaped cake pan, everyone will love this fun easy dessert.
With just a few basic ingredients and steps, you'll have this colorful cake mix recipe ready in no time.
Check out all the other Easter Desserts for even more delicious recipes.
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Are you looking for a creative way to add some extra excitement and joy to Easter Sunday? If so, why not make something special for the occasion - a cake in the shape of an egg!
For this recipe, I took the easy way out and used an egg-shaped cake pan. However, the particular one I used is no longer available, so I posted a very close duplicate in my Helpful Kitchen Tools section.
Looking for more Easy Desserts that are egg-shaped for Easter? Try my Mini Easter Egg Cakes, Easter Egg Fruit Pizza and my Easter Egg Brownies.
Table of Contents
- How do you make a box mix taste like a bakery cake?
- 🛒Helpful Kitchen Tools
- 📋Ingredients
- Recipe Substitutions
- 🥣Step-by-Step Instructions
- Top Tip
- Prepare the Frosting
- Decorate the Cake
- LOVE this recipe? SAVE it for Later!
- Storage Tips
- Freezing Tips
- 🔁 Thawing Tips
- Top Tip
- More Recipes to Love
- 📖 Recipe Card
- 💬 Comments
How do you make a box mix taste like a bakery cake?
To make a boxed cake mix taste like you're serving a cake purchased from a bakery or even a homemade recipe, swap out the oil for real butter.
If you're making a chocolate cake mix, try swapping out the water with coffee. Chocolate combined with coffee really brings a deeper flavor to the cake.
Looking for more tips on making a cake mix taste like a bakery cake? Check out my 5 Cake Mix Baking Secrets post.
🛒Helpful Kitchen Tools
Egg Cake Pans, Easter Silicone Egg
Disposable Icing Piping BagsAteco # 846 - Closed Star Pastry Tip ½'' Opening Diameter- Stainless SteelMcCormick Assorted Food Colors & Egg Dye,
📋Ingredients
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Recipe Substitutions
Use your favorite cake flavor to make this cake. A lemon cake mix would be great for Easter.
You could also use your favorite homemade cake recipe.
🥣Step-by-Step Instructions
Step 1: First, follow the directions on the back of the cake mix box to prepare the batter. Once your batter is ready, proceed to the next step.
Step 2: This is what the cake pan looks like before the batter is poured in. It has a fun design that will help us decorate
Top Tip
Don't have an egg shaped pan? Bake in a 9x13 pan and use a template made of parchment paper to cut out the egg shape.
Make sure the cake is completely cooled before cutting.
Step 3: Prepare your egg-shaped pan by greasing it thoroughly with baking spray. Then, pour the prepared batter into the pan.
Step 4: Let the cake cool completely. This will help prevent your decorations from melting or smearing.
Prepare the Frosting
Step 5: Divide the frosting into three separate bowls. Gradually add food coloring to each bowl, a little at a time, until you achieve your desired colors. Then, fit piping bags with star tips and fill them no more than ⅔ full to prevent messy overflows.
Decorate the Cake
Step 6: Prepare your piping bag by twisting the top closed or securing it with a rubber band or bag tie. Then, gently squeeze the bag while holding it in your palm, and pipe stars in your favorite design to transform your cake into a festive Easter egg!
Step 7: Store your decorated creation in the refrigerator until it's time to enjoy.
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Storage Tips
Store in a cake keeper or cake box and refrigerate for up to 3 days.
Freezing Tips
To freeze the decorated cake, place the cake in the freezer for about an hour to firm up the frosting. Once the frosting is firm, wrap the cake in plastic wrap then wrap in aluminum foil.
🔁 Thawing Tips
To defrost, remove the aluminum and plastic wrap so as to not mess up the frosting once it has defrosted.
Place in the fridge overnight for it to thaw. Set on the counter about an hour before serving to come to room temperature.
Top Tip
Transfer the cooled cake to the serving platter before you start decorating.
More Recipes to Love
Try my Easter Bunny Cake, Spring Sugar Cookies or my Easter Bundt Cake...yum!
You might also like these recipes for Easter Mini Bundt Cakes or Easter Chick Cupcakes.
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📖 Recipe Card
Easter Egg Cake
Ingredients
- 1 15.25 ounce box white cake mix, plus ingredients listed on the back of the box to prepare.
- 1 16 ounce container cream cheese frosting
- food coloring - red yellow, blue
Method
- Prepare the cake as directed on the package in an egg shaped pan that has been prepared with baking spray.
- Allow the cake to cool completely before decorating.
- Add the cream cheese frosting to 3 separate bowls.
- Slowly add the food coloring to each bowl to achieve the colors you desire.
- Add the frosting to piping bags fitted with a star decorating tip.
- Hold the bag perpendicular to the cake and start squeezing the bag to release the frosting.
- Store the cake in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
Nutrition
Notes
- Don't have an egg shaped pan? Bake in a 9x13 pan and use a template made of parchment paper to cut out the egg shape. Make sure the cake is completely cooled before cutting.
- Transfer the cooled cake to the serving platter before you start decorating.
Kerryanne says
Wow Lois, this cake is an absolute show stopper for the Easter table.
Thank you for sharing your Easter Egg Cake recipe at Create, Bake, Grow & Gather this week. I'm delighted to be featuring it at the party today and pinning too.
Hugs,
Kerryanne