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Cadbury Mini Eggs Layer Cake

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A beautiful Cadbury Mini Eggs Layer Cake for Easter and spring celebrations. This cake has 3 pastel layers, buttercream frosting, and pastel chocolate eggs.

Cadbury Mini Eggs Layer Cake

What is it about Easter candy? I think it might be my favorite holiday candy. I love all of the chocolates and bright spring colors from the Cadbury eggs to the jelly beans. But who am I kidding? I love candy from all of the holidays and when there isn’t a holiday, I love the regular candy. So, it is only logical that I should make an Easter Cake that is a Cadbury Mini Eggs Layer Cake!

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Colored Cake Batter

Start by mixing up your cake batter. I used a white boxed cake mix and added the ingredients called for on the box. Next, color the cake batter pink, blue and yellow for a 3 layer cake.

I used three Wilton 4 inch springform pans because that was all I had available for small pans. I tightly wrapped on the outside with aluminum foil and placed them on a baking sheet. You can use Wilton 6 inch cake pans and your cake will be a little wider and a little shorter. I put about 1 1/2 cups of batter into each pan and baked them at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. (If using 6-inch pan, bake for 15-20 minutes.) The cakes rose up over the tops of the springform pan and I used a serrated knife to cut off the tops once the cakes had cooled, making them nice and flat for stacking.

Three Layer Cake

Once the cakes have cooled completely, spread a little frosting in the center of the cake platter and place one of the cakes on the frosting. Spread about 1/3 cup of buttercream between the layers.

How To Decorate A Cake

Cover the entire cake with a thin layer of frosting, making a crumb coat which will seal the crumbs in place. To make this step easier, you can thin your buttercream a little so that it spreads easier. Place the cake in the fridge to allow the frosting to set.

Once the crumb coat frosting is dry to the touch, frost the cake with the buttercream frosting.

Cadbury Mini Eggs Rainbow

Press Cadbury Mini Eggs into the buttercream. To make a pattern, I placed pairs of the colored eggs next to each other in rows around the cake. Each time I added a row, I moved the pattern over one egg. This gave the cake a pretty, striped, swirl look.

Ombre Cake

Put the Cadbury Mini Eggs in a circle on the top of the cake.

Layer Cake Easter Dessert

Put the cake in the freezer for 2 hours before serving. Dip a knife in very hot water, quickly dry it off and use the hot knife to easily cut the very cold cake. Re-dip and dry the knife for each cut you make. This fun Cadbury Mini Eggs Layer Cake is the perfect Easter cake to share with your family and friends!

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Cadbury Mini Eggs Layer Cake
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Cadbury Mini Eggs Layer Cake
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
1 hr
 
Course: Dessert
Author: The Gunny Sack
Ingredients
Cake:
  • 1 boxed cake mix and ingredients called for on the box
  • Red blue and yellow food coloring
Buttercream Frosting
  • 1 cup butter room temperature (softened but not melted)
  • 1 cup shortening
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 8 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/4 - 1/2 cup heavy cream
Decorations:
  • 4 bags of Cadbury Mini Eggs
Instructions
Cake:
  1. Mix cake batter according to directions on the box.
  2. Put 1 1/2 cups of cake batter into 3 separate bowls and add food coloring to make pink, blue and yellow cake batter.
  3. Pour into greased cake pans and bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes for 4-inch springform pans or 15-20 minutes for 6-inch cake pans. Bake until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
Buttercream Frosting:
  1. Beat butter, shortening, and vanilla for two minutes, until creamy.
  2. Add powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating after each cup.
  3. Beat in 1/4 - 1/2 cup of heavy cream until light and fluffy. If necessary, add additional heavy cream, 1 tablespoon at a time until it is the consistency you want.
Assembly:
  1. Once the cakes have cooled completely, spread a little frosting in the center of the cake platter and place one of the cakes on the frosting. Spread about 1/3 cup of buttercream between the layers.
  2. Cover the entire cake with a thin layer of frosting, making a crumb coat which will seal the crumbs in place.
  3. Once the crumb coat frosting is dry to the touch, frost the cake with the buttercream frosting.
  4. Press Cadbury Mini Eggs into the buttercream frosting making a pattern.

Cadbury Mini Egg Easter Cake

This cake was featured in the January/February/March issue of the Sweet Dreams magazine, available on newsstands in Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg.

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Comments

    • Tonia says

      March 12, 2018 at 2:25 pm

      Hello! You can use your homemade cake mix recipe. One box cake mix (like the recipe calls for) is enough for one 9×13 cake. Divide it in three and tint the cake mix with food coloring. Best of luck!

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  2. Susan says

    April 2, 2017 at 6:11 pm

    Hi Tonia! Could you please tell me what size cake pan (4-inch springform pans or 6-inch cake pans) you used in the photo?
    Thank you!
    Susan

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  3. Nancy Adams says

    March 30, 2015 at 5:06 pm

    This is a really cute cake. However in your icing recipe you call for 8 cups of powdered sugar and in parenthesis next to that you put (1 box). One box of powdered sugar equals 4 cups of powdered sugar NOT EIGHT. So in the midst of making this cake your wondering what do I do? Is this a misprint? Which is correct? One box or eight cups?? Wanting the cake to turn out you just decide you better do what the recipe says. So I did the 8 cups and the icing was horrible. In the trash it went. I think it would be a good idea to call out the size of cake pan used right in the list of ingredients since it is very unusual size.

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    • Tonia says

      April 2, 2015 at 9:07 am

      Hi Nancy,
      I’m sorry you were disappointed with the buttercream frosting. The recipe calls for 8 cups powdered sugar (about 1 bag). Here in Minnesota, 1 bag of powdered sugar is equal to 2 pounds or about 8 cups. I hope you were able to find another buttercream frosting recipe that fit your needs.
      ~Tonia

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  5. Lilly says

    November 7, 2014 at 1:30 am

    Wow. This one is very creative and delicious as well I never thought of egg inspired cake even though their are more ridiculously amazing designed cake now a days its just that egg cake never crossed my mind, its very unique and hope you can share some more recipes to us. two thumbs up

    Reply

  7. YUMA says

    April 30, 2014 at 3:26 pm

    Hola déjame felicitarte muy linda soy de Venezuela y tengo dudas no si si la MANTECA a la que dice la receta es manteca de cerdo o margarina, la única manteca que conozco es de manteca de cerdo gracias

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    • Tonia says

      May 2, 2014 at 8:30 am

      Hi Yuma,

      Using Google Translate your comment shows up as “Hello let me congratulate very cute am from Venezuela and I have no doubt if if MANTECA to which the recipe is lard or margarine, only butter I know is thanks lard”

      Thank you! The shortening in this recipe is vegetable shortening, made from vegetables. I’m not sure if they sell it in Venezuela but it looks like the brands “Clover and Blanquita” are sold in South America. I’ve never cooked with lard, but it is made from animal fat. And of course butter comes from cream. Happy Baking!

      Translated: ¡Gracias! El acortamiento en esta receta es la manteca vegetal, a base de verduras. No estoy seguro de si lo venden en Venezuela pero parece que las marcas “Clover y Blanquita” se venden en América del Sur. Nunca he cocinado con manteca de cerdo, pero que está hecho de grasa animal. Y, por supuesto, viene de la mantequilla crema. Hornada feliz!

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  8. Allie says

    April 17, 2014 at 10:18 am

    I love this cake, i’m definitely making it for easter! Do you have to serve this cake cold Tonia, and if so..what will happen if you serve it room temp like a regular cake?!
    Thank you!

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    • Tonia says

      April 17, 2014 at 4:49 pm

      Hi Allie,
      It is fine to serve like a regular cake, but it will be softer and more difficult to cut. Happy Easter!
      ~Tonia

      Reply

  15. Amy | Club Narwhal says

    April 8, 2014 at 9:42 am

    Tonia, my heart just stopped a little bit looking at this gorgeous creation! What a fun way to use mini eggs (though I would probably eat the whole bag before they made it onto a cake). So perfect for Easter!

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