Easter Egg Hunt Cake
Posted by Leslie Williams for Jayden Sepe on 28th Mar 2019
This fun Easter cake features 12 small chocolate eggs hidden around the cake. The top tier shows a cute bunny, tail up in the carrot garden - giving you a view of his fuzzy bunny butt. The second tier continues the carrot motif with painted carrots and the bottom tier is a festive pink Easter Basket stuffed with chocolate bunnies.
Products used in this Cake
Top Tier:
- Carrot Pressed Sugars for the Carrot Garden. Carrots are painted with Mandarin Orange Metallic and Bright Melon Green Edible Paints.
- Dirt is made of Brown Crystal Sugar
- Bunny Butt was made with a ball of fondant and using the Bunny tail and toes pressed sugars
2nd Tier
- Green Fat Daddio Fondant
- Tree trunk was made with a dowel wrapped in Fat Daddio Chocolate Brown Fondant. Jayden used the flower leaf shaper by PME to carve the lines into the trunk
- The tree canopy was made using rice crispies mix (just like making regular rice crispie squares) formed into various sized balls and coloured with green americolor colouring. They were attached using melted chocolate to the base of the tree and each other.
- Fence was made out of white fondant using the FMM Fence Cutter
Bottom Tier
- Buttercream icing coloured with Americolor Electric Pink
- Piping is done with a Basket Weave Tip # 1D
- The Easter Bunnies were made of chocolate using bunny molds 90-2372, Easter Bunny Small 3D Chocolate Mold, Easter Cute Bunny Small 3D Chocolate Mold, Small Egg Mold
Cake Board Layer
- 14" square drum board was used to support this cake.
- Grass was piped with grass tip 234
- Sign is made of chocolate using the sign mold. Jayden used a little ball of green fondant to stick the sign to the cake board.
- Lettering was done with an edible marker.
Jayden Sepe, owner of Scoop-n-Save, professional cake artist and sprinkle aficionado enjoys helping people develop their cake decorating super powers. Jayden studied culinary arts with a specialty in baking and pastry at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts and went on to open Forbbiden Sweets where she wowed supplying creative cakes, cupcakes and cookies. Since taking over at the Scoop, Jayden has indulged her shopping addiction to bring new and trending decorating products into the store.