We love how the Easter season means you can go heavy on the chocolate and the cake all at the same time. Why just have chocolate Easter eggs when you can have a chocolate Easter egg cake? What really brings this cake to life though are the gorgeous sprinkles. They are so colourful and cheerful. Achieve a professional finish using sprinkles both as a mix, and by individually placing them on your cake.
Mix & Match Your Mix!
First up, pick and mix your own colour coordinated Easter cake sprinkles mix using Culpitt Select cake sprinkles. Here’s the combination used for this stunning cake:
Stir them together in a bowl to see your unique sprinkles mix combine.
Decorate Your Cake Drip
Drip cakes are very popular whatever the season, so making an Easter Drip Cake is a brilliant idea that is certain to impress your friends and family. If you’re not sure how to execute the cake drip technique, hop over to our short advice article to understand the basics. It’s simpler than it looks.
So, back to the decorating!
Before the ganache drip is completely set, decorate round the edge of your chocolate drip using the sprinkle mix, but leave the middle of the cake clear if you want to add other decorations.
Apply a little of the mix at a time to build up the desired look in the circle around the outside of the top.
Take some purple rods and yellow rods and place these occasionally by hand onto the surface. Using some of these larger sprinkles individually in this way gives the overall sprinkle decoration effect a more considered and professional finish. This is what professional cake decorators don’t want you to know: positioning these with some thought is what helps the pattern to look neater on the top. Whilst it still looks random, it’s secretly not completely so!
Similarly, add some individual sprinkles down the drips. They will stick nicely as the ganache cools. Try using strands, confetti, pearls and rods sparingly so it looks like they have slid off the top. Less is more here!
As well as traditional strands, rods and confetti, there are several special shaped sprinkles in the Culpitt Select range, including these irresistible bunnies! What’s not to like about bunny sprinkles for Easter cakes?! (Also suitable for baby shower cakes and Christening cakes!)
Decorate The Easter Eggs
The sprinkle mix can also be used to cleverly disguise joins on Easter eggs. It makes Easter eggs look stunning and doesn’t matter if your chocolate join is a little bit messy.
If you’re short on time, you can of course use ready-made easter eggs, however making your own Easter eggs is really rewarding and fun! Click here to read our article about home-made Easter Eggs.
Regardless of whether you opt for homemade easter eggs, or pimp up some shop brought eggs, this easy sprinkle decoration technique is the same. Simply paint a little melted chocolate onto the egg, over the join and dip the egg into the bowl of sprinkle mix. The sprinkles will stick to the warm chocolate, then you can position more ‘feature sprinkles’ by hand.
You can use the same dipping-in-sprinkles technique for other decorations, like the macarons on this cake. Marshmallows or even fresh fruits would work well too.
Just make sure you leave everything to cool before assembling them on the cake.
Positioning The Easter Eggs On The Easter Cake
Place a large chocolate egg upright on top of the cake, inside the ring of sprinkles. It probably won’t stand upright in the cake drip ganache on it’s own, but you can add some more melted chocolate or buttercream works well as "glue" to keep it stable.
All the eggs don’t have to be complete. The top of cake decoration could include egg halves filled with sprinkles, sweets or buttercream, and add smaller moulded eggs or macarons to complete the design.
So, there you have it. This Easter drip cake is sure to impress your friends and family. The combination of chocolate eggs and colourful sprinkles help make this a real showstopper! Have a go today, and have a very happy Easter!
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