We bring you some ideas to make this Easter sweet and cheerful, and that do not require great baking knowledge . Because this Easter more than any other we are going to want to prepare our Easter sweets at home.
I'm sure our little ones will appreciate receiving their mona, and although I encourage you to make a traditional mona to preserve traditions and enjoy a pastry with a unique and exquisite flavour at home (you have the recipe for it here ), there are other alternatives to that, easy Easter solutions, very attractive and cheerful that do not involve, at all, great complications.
1. Bundt cake filled with surprises
The beauty of bundt moulds is that, without any additional effort on our part, we get a cake with a very pretty and elegant appearance. They are a very good alternative to make a beautiful cake at home.
How to use bundt pans for Easter?
- Make your bundt cake, you can use any traditional cake recipe or follow any of the recipes we have on the blog (you will see them here ).
- Let it cool, and decide if you want to give it a simple look, sprinkling it with powdered sugar, or apply a topping (some simple icing*) or you can cover it with chocolate, or chocolate with pieces of almonds or hazelnuts.
- Fill the inside of the bundt with candy, chocolate eggs or coins. The kids will love it! You can also choose to buy a chocolate egg or figure (you can even find them in local supermarkets these days) and place it in the center.
- You can also apply some floral decorations around it (they make Easter 100%, given that call to Palm Sunday), or use candied fruit or frosted fruit for its preparation (in the photo you can see the chiffon cake with candied oranges, whose recipe you can see here ).
Remember! You will find several very interesting ingredients for your Easter cakes in our pantry section , such as delicious coconut oil, hazelnut oil, almond oil, and other cold-pressed oils that are the finest, pearl sugar, authentic vanilla extract from Madagascar...
You can find a ton of Nordic Ware bundt pans here , or maybe the one you like is the one pictured, it's the Le Creuset bundt pan .
2. Use a crown mold
Just as we invited you to use a bundt pan to make your cake in a pretty and easy way, you can use a crown pan (a low pan with a large circular space in the center). You can use a crown pan exactly as mentioned above.
Some alternative ideas in this case for your presentation could be:
- Apply noodles or colored chocolate balls on top of the chocolate coating (Do you know how happy the kids are with those cakes covered with a thousand and one colored noodles?)
- You can apply a zig-zag pattern of frosting along the entire cake. It looks very pretty too!
- You can cover half of the circle with one type of icing or frosting, and the other half with something else. A good example of this would be to make half a cake covered in dark chocolate, and the other half in white chocolate (you can decorate one and the other with coloured noodles, or one part with noodles and the other with coloured balls).
- Using a pastry bag , make small piles of pastry cream around the entire perimeter, and on top of each one you can put a chocolate egg, a cherry or strawberry, or colored sprinkles.
In the store we have the De Buyer crown mold and the Le Creuset crown mold , both of which can be used for this purpose.
3. Easter Bunnies
The magic is in the mould! Let a mould brighten up the table: prepare the traditional yoghurt batter, or your favourite cake (it can be almond, carrot, cocoa...), and pour the batter into a mould shaped like Easter bunnies (or ducklings, with the Sweet Tweets mould ). You're almost done! You can finish decorating them with a little chocolate or paste, wrap them in cling film, surround them with chocolates... Or put them on top of another cake baked on a large tray, and it will be a real treat.
If you want to make the bunnies with vanilla and lemon, you can see the recipe here .
4. Tall decorated cake
Use a tall mould (a panettone mould or a tall springform pan, like the one from KitchenCraft ) to make a really tall cake. Decorate it in a very simple way, with mascarpone cream (just whipped mascarpone with sugar) and add some decorations, such as chocolate noodles, Lacasitos, coloured nuts, fresh fruit...). You can also add some decorative Easter chicks!
Bake some bunny-shaped cookies, or egg-shaped ones. Just before taking them out of the oven, while they are still soft, stick a skewer or toothpick into them and let them cool.
Stick the cookie lollipops into the cake, and you will have an Easter cake that is as delicious as it is pretty.
5. Decorated cupcakes
If there is one sweet that is common in every home, it is muffins and cupcakes. It will be great fun for the little ones in the house to make and decorate these homemade sweets!
You can make them plain or you can fill them with cream, chocolate, lemon curd or jam . What will really bring joy to the table is the decoration you give them, whether it is more sober (you can decorate them with nuts and honey) or with chocolates, coins, whipped cream (with fruit or jam on top), fruit, Lacasitos, chocolate shavings... I invite you to look at the photo to get some ideas.
6. Carrot cake with cream cheese
How about making a classic cream cheese cake? Make a delicious, moist and fluffy carrot cake and top it with the cream cheese frosting that everyone loves.
You can see the recipe here .
Utensils to make your decorated cakes and muffins
Here are some utensils that may be useful for your muffins and other creations:
- Le Creuset muffin pan or Kaiser muffin pan .
- The mini muffin mold if you want to make the bite-sized version.
- Paper muffin cups
- Birkmann muffin scoop
- Pastry bag and nozzles
- The De Buyer gun is wonderful for all kinds of creations of this type. What if you make it in a star version? With this mold you get some very cute morsels: the star mold from Le Creuset .
- You may be interested in using some ingredients to make the muffins, such as coconut oil, vanilla extract, pearl sugar... I invite you to visit our pantry section .
- If you need rods, bowls, trays, release spray... You will find all the baking accessories you may need here .
- If you need a pastry robot because you see that it is your thing, then visit this section - Nothing like a KitchenAid!
Some simple frostings for your cakes
Orange glaze : Melt 20g of butter together with 20ml of orange juice and, once hot, add 60g of icing sugar. Mix well until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Lemon glaze : add the juice of 1 lemon to 120 g of icing sugar little by little, stirring continuously until the right consistency is achieved. If it is not enough, add a teaspoon of water.
Chocolate Glaze: 200g 70% baking chocolate, 200g 35% cream and 3 tablespoons of liquid glucose (or Golden Syrup). In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, mix all the ingredients and place on medium heat, stirring well until everything has dissolved and you have a thick cream. Remove from heat and set aside. (Be careful, this glaze hardens when it is warm; do not pour it too hot, as it will tend to spread, nor too thick, or it will not spread easily).
I hope all these ideas inspire you to make some of the most beautiful homemade cakes. Don't forget to tell us in the comments what other easy and beautiful alternatives we can make at home during these holidays. It's so nice to share ideas!
