Whip up this stunning Easter Cake for your holiday entertaining. A bird nest egg that is topped with toasted coconut and eggs. Serve up this decorated Easter cake for the whole family to enjoy.
Ingredients
2boxes of Vanilla cake mix
6large egg
2Cwater
1CCanola oil
3 9inchround cake pans
3 10inchround cake board
Pam baking spray
Vanilla frosting
2Cunsalted butter, softened
5Cpowdered sugar
2tsppure vanilla extract
3-6TBSPheavy whipping cream
Sky Blue gel food coloring
3Ctoasted coconut
1Cof speckled whopper egg candies
1mini angled spatula
1medium ice cream scooper
Speckled ingredients
Brown gel food coloring
Wide stiff paint brush
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray the 3 cake pans with pam baking spray
Start by working on your vanilla cake batter using a hand mixer or stand mixer.
Once your cake batter is ready, divide into the 3 pans, and bake for around 28-32 minutes or until the cakes are fully cooked.
Once your cakes are done, you will place on a cooling rack to cool down.
If you need, grab a cake leveler and use that to cut off any dome on the cakes.
Using a standing mixer, beat together the butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and heavy whipping cream until combined, smooth and stiff with peaks.
Grab food coloring and mix in a few drops of sky blue food coloring and mix until combined.
Building the cake directions
Start with the bottom layer and add about 1 cup of frosting. Use a knife to spread evenly over the layer of the cake. Repeat for each layer of the cake.
Frost the entire edges of the cake with the remaining blue frosting.
Now you will add a bit more frosting in the center of the cake to make a mound for a bird nest.
Now sprinkle on toasted coconut around the mound to mimic twigs. Place candy eggs in the center.
Speckled look directions
Stir together about ¼ tsp of brown food coloring and 2 drops of water into a bowl
Dip the tip of a small brush in the mixture.
Hold the brush about 4-6 inches away from the cake and fling the brush to make a splatter effect. Flick the brush to give it a speckled look.
Gently place a few of the speckled malted eggs onto the top center of the nest!
Cut your Easter Cake that is stunning and resembles a Robin egg blue color.