If you are looking for an easy Easter cake to make with the kids, you have definitely come the right place! The colors are bright and colorful and who can resist chocolate cake?! Go here for the newly updated version.
I made one cake and will show you how to decorate in it two different ways that only takes a few minutes each to do. I used Hershey’s chocolate cake recipe (super fast) and when the cake was cooled, I used whipped cream, sweetened coconut flakes, and Easter candy to decorate the cake. Yummy! (Well my kids did not care for the decorations, they just wanted the delicious cake)!
So here we go.
- The first decoration is to use simple whipped cream frosting, an edible chocolate bunny, and sweetened coconut flakes dyed with green food coloring to create the grassy look. See the recipe below for instructions on how to decorate it. Super easy!
And here is a hearty slice!
- And the second decoration is to use whipped cream frosting with Easter egg candy, peeps, and sweetened coconut flakes dyed with green food coloring to create the grassy look. See instructions below. I decorated the bunny first then removed the bunny and add the eggs and a peep.
You can see how moist the cake is in the following photos! Doesn’t it make you desire a huge slice?
I mean, one slice is just not enough of this cake! It really is so soft and so moist.
Here are the instructions to create either of these two delicious cakes! You may want to read the summary in the recipe first before proceeding to with the cake.
- For Cake:
- 2 cups sugar
- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cups Hershey’s baking cocoa
- 1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1-1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
- For Frosting:
- 1 tub cool whip
- Yellow food coloring
- For Decorations:
- 1 14 oz pk sweetened coconut flakes
- Green food coloring
- Choice of either:
- 1 Easter bunny chocolate
- or 1 pk peeps and 1 pk Easter egg candy
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease and flour a 9″ round baking pan.
- Combine dry ingredients in a large bow.
- Add eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla.
- Beat on medium speed about 2 minutes.
- Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin).
- Pour into pans. Bake at 30-35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool at least 10 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack.
- Cool completely.
- To Frost:
- Mix in a few drops of yellow food coloring into the cool whip until desired shade is acquired.
- Frost the cooled cake.
- To Decorate:
- Mix the coconut flakes in a Ziplock bag with food green coloring.
- Seal and shake the bag until the coconut turns green. Add more food coloring until you get the desired look (this is the edible Easter grass).
- Add coconut flakes all around the bottom of the cake and on the top of the cake.
- Add desired choice of topping.
- ) If using the bunny, simply place it in the center of the coconut (grass) on the top of the cake.
- ) If using the peeps and eggs, place the eggs first then add a peep or two.
- See the photos above for decorating ideas.
- Enjoy a hearty slice!!
As you may notice in this next photo, the top of the cake sunk a little. That’s because my mom always told me never to open the oven while the cake is cooking. Well, I did because I thought the cake was done since the timer rang. I should have set the timer a bit longer because I made one whole cake instead of two smaller ones like the recipe called for. Anyway, it worked out well, because the little sunken spot was perfect to hold the edible Easter grass (the green coconut flakes). See the images.
So there you have it! One chocolate cake with two simple decorations. So moist and yummy! Your family will definitely love it!
I just love the images and the bright colors!
So tell me, which decoration do you like best? For me, the eggs look colorful but I am liking the simple bunny. It just looks so peaceful sitting there!
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness (Proverbs 31:27, KJV).
I love the looks of both – the chick and eggs and the bunny! They are both adorable. And I bet it tastes as good as it looks. Wish I had a big piece right now.
It sure tastes as good as it look! I had many slices of this:) Sorry you are so far away!!
Chocolate cake is sooo good! I haven’t made a from scratch one in almost two years. And I love the way you’ve decorated the! The peeps one is my favorite.
Chocolate is one of hubby’s favorites. He enjoyed a good slice of it too!!
My kids would love a cake with candy in it and on it 🙂 Super cute idea for Easter.
My kids did not care for the candy; it was not their favorite kind. I found that out after I decorated the cake with it!!! But we enjoyed the cake!!
Chocolate cake and Easter go together like peanut butter and jelly! Both of your cakes look very pretty for Easter. Those candy robins eggs with the Peep is very enticing! Easter is always a fun day to enjoy family time and the fun food makes it even better.
They are pretty indeed..It was so much fun to make them using these easy decorations!
Yum! This cake looks so moist and tasty. Stopping by from Bloggers Brags Pinterest Party.
More than Yum! LOL…It truly is a delicious and moist cake!
This cake is making my mouth water, it looks so delicious. Thanks for linking up to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Party. I have pinned your post to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Board.
Thank you Janine! Sorry, but the cake is delish for real:)
Both decorations are so cute! I love the idea to use coconut for grass. Thanks for sharing at What’d You Do This Weekend? I hope you will join us again this Monday!
I thought the edible grass would be better and nothing else came to mind but coconut flakes!
Those ideas are awesome! Thanks for linking up to this week’s Tasty Tuesday. I have added your recipe to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest Board.
Thank you Ashley! I love both ideas (so Eastery)!!