Looking for Easter Cake Ideas? Whether you’re simply looking for inspiration or whether you want to recreate one of these cakes yourself, you’re in the perfect place. Here, you’ll find 14 beautiful Easter cake ideas, including easy designs with instructions to recreate them.
How to find an Easter cake idea suited to your cake-decorating level?
I’ve come up with a system. The cake ideas are presented to you according to their level of difficulty. There are three categories :
What Are Beginner Cake Ideas?
These are easy cake ideas. If you’ve never decorated a cake before (or only did it once or twice), these are the cakes that you should pay attention to.
- What you’ll find: Beautiful cake ideas that only require basic cake decorating techniques. This is a great place to start your journey.
What Are Intermediate Cake Ideas?
Low Intermediate Baker: If you are confident that you’ve mastered the cake decorating basics, such as how to smooth a cake, but feel like you still have a lot of techniques to learn apart from this foundation, this category is perfect for you.
- What you’ll find: Easter Cake ideas that require both basic decorating skills and one or two techniques that are a little bit more advanced. This is a great place to grow your cake-decorating skills.
High Intermediate Baker: If you’ve mastered both basic techniques and several more advanced cake decorating techniques, these cake ideas are made for you.
- What you’ll find: Stunning cake ideas that can be fairly challenging, but are a great place to get even better than you already are.
What Are Advanced Cake Ideas?
If you consider yourself an experienced cake decorator and have mastered most of the decorating techniques, including the use of fondant, then this is the perfect place for you.
- What you’ll find: Showstopping and challenging cake ideas, perfect to sharpen and maintain your skills.
The Grading System
Finally, I’ve also assigned a grade of difficulty to each cake inspiration: 1/5 being the easiest design and 5/5 being the hardest. The goal is to make the ranking the most accurate possible. You will find this to be particularly helpful if you happen to fall in the Beginner or the Intermediate Cake Ideas categories.
Growth Tip : This list is great a place to set goals about your cake decorating skills. Pin this post and come back later to tell us how far you’ve come in your cake decorating journey !
How to recreate these Easter cake ideas?
What cake recipe should you use to make your perfect cake come true?
To recreate these cake ideas, you will need a trustworthy cake recipe. You have several options.
Adapt your favorite cake recipe.
There are a lot of ways to adapt a cake recipe. You mainly have four options to tweak your favorite recipe :
- You could change the flavor of your cake recipe: with citrus zest, the essence of your choice, or turn it into a chocolate or carrot cake for example.
- You could add a filling: a caramel sauce, a homemade flavored whipped cream, ganache, or buttercream.
- You could also add some texture: oreo bits, crumble crumbs, nuts, or fresh fruit for example.
- Finally, you could personalize your frosting.
Be careful, if you’re a beginner baker, having to figure out both your cake design and creating a new cake recipe could be overwhelming. Therefore, I always recommend taking your learning journey one step at a time.
Look for a cake recipe.
Where? You can ask friends, or family or simply look on the internet. You have to keep two things in mind though :
- The recipe has to be suitable for cake decorating, especially for cakes that require stacking or carving (intermediate and advanced cake ideas).
- Once again, if you’re a beginner baker, be careful not to put too much on your plate and choose a recipe suited to your current level.
Use my cake recipe recommendation.
Finally, you could try the delicious recipe I recommend. As Ester also rings the beginning of spring, what better way to celebrate sunny days than with a delicious lemon curd cake recipe? While it’s the perfect cake recipe for easter day I would advise complete beginners to opt for this easier classic vanilla cake recipe.
What you will love about this lemon cake recipe :
- It has a sweet and tangy flavor.
- It’ll stay moist for days.
- It’s perfect for cake decorating.
How to follow the instructions of the designs.
For the cake designs in the beginner category: I’ll provide written instructions on how to recreate the cake idea presented to you. Don’t hesitate to watch video tutorials about the basic techniques such as how to smooth a cake.
For the designs in the intermediate category: I’ll provide some guidance on how to perform the more complicated techniques.
For the advanced category: you are an experienced baker, at this point, and you will find great opportunities to put this experience to use. To be completely honest, I cannot make myself several cake ideas from the advanced category, so trust your abilities and go for it.
Find the perfect Easter cake idea for your baking skills.
Growth Tip : If you aim to get better at cake decorating, you should choose a cake idea that feels sligthly above your current cake decorating level. Get out of your comfort zone !
Easter Cake Ideas Perfect for Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy Easter cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Bunny’s Ear Cake.
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
Semi-naked cakes are the perfect type of cake for beginner cake decorators.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover your cake
- Tiny Easter eggs.
- Bunny ears cake topper.
How to recreate this cake?
- Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only the turn table.
- If you can’t see the cake’s edges underneath, you’ve put too much frosting on the cake. Keep scraping until you’re satisfied.
- Chill the cake for 20 minutes (until your frosting sets) in the fridge.
- Finally, place your cake toppers and tiny Easter eggs.
What you’ve learned :
Semi-naked cakes allow you to slowly build a strong foundation for your cake-decorating skills. They also look beautiful.
Easy Easter Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
Adding texture to your buttercream cover is also another easy way to make your cake design look more interesting.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover and decorate your cake.
- A cake comb.
- Easter cake toppers.
- Easter eggs.
How to recreate this cake?
- For the cover of the cake. First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake in the fridge for 20 to 30 minutes (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- For the texture of the cake. In order to recreate the texture of this cake, you’ll need a cake comb. Simply pass it over your buttercream cover as you would with a cake scrapper.
- Repeat the process until satisfied, but remember to clean the cake comb between each passage.
- Chill your cake again for 30 minutes.
- You can leave the edges raw as in the picture or cut them with a knife warmed underwater.
- Finally, place your cake toppers and Easter eggs.
What you’ve learned :
Cake toppers and textured buttercream look beautiful and are easy to master. They can really take you a long way on your cake-decorating journey.
Bento Easter Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
Bento cakes are everywhere these days. So if you’re looking for a small and trendy easter cake idea, this one is perfect for you.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover and decorate your cake.
- A piping bag with an open star piping tip for the border (like 6B by Wilton).
- Sprinkles.
- Tiny Easter eggs.
How to recreate this cake?
- For the cover of the cake. You can refer to the previous cake ideas if you’ve never done it before.
- For the buttercream shell border. Hold the piping bag at a 45-degree angle next to the cake’s edge.
- Squeeze the piping bag to release the icing, and pull the bag away while releasing pressure forming a shell shape.
- Keep piping shells to form a border around the cake. Maintain a consistent angle and pressure for uniform shells.
- You can practice on a sheet of parchment paper before piping on the actual cake. To get more clarity you can watch this quick shell border tutorial.
- For the writing. If you’re not used to writing with buttercream, use a toothpick or the tip of a knife to trace where you’re going to write.
- Then chill your cake for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets, so it doesn’t get damaged in case you have trouble with the next step.
- Now you can retrace over the imprint you made on your buttercream. If you’d like to practice beforehand, you can always do so on a sheet of parchment paper until you’re confident enough.
- Finally, place your sprinkles and tiny Easter Eggs.
What you’ve learned :
Buttercream shell borders are a staple in cake decorating, once you master them, a variety of beautiful cake ideas opens to you.
If you’re looking for more easy cake ideas for Easter Day, check out my post about Bunny Cake Ideas.
Easter Cake Ideas for Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 8 cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Bunnies Shadows Cake
Difficulty Level: 2/5 (Low-Intermediate)
As you get more and more comfortable with buttercream, starting fondant work will open to you a variety of creative opportunities.
A little guidance
To recreate these cute little fondant bunnies, you don’t necessarily need a cookie cutter. You can easily draw or print a paper pattern to cut your fondant.
Colorful Easter Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
This buttercream cake is going to be the perfect opportunity to sharpen your buttercream piping skills.
A little guidance
Don’t be intimidated, this cake design consists mostly of buttercream dots (with different sizes of open star piping tips) and simple swirls (with a 2D piping tip). You can easily follow this quick buttercream swirl tutorial to recreate them.
Bunny Cake
Difficulty level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
There’s nothing more iconic than the Easter Bunny, so if you’re looking for a cake design that’ll amaze kids and adults alike, this is the perfect cake for you.
A little guidance
If you want to recreate this cute design yourself, you can easily inspire yourself with this bunny cake tutorial.
Cute Marshmallow Easter Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
If you love marshmallows as much as I do, this cute Easter cake and its marshmallow bunnies are perfect for you.
A little guidance
To recreate these super cute marshmallow bunnies inspire yourself from this DIY marshmallow cats tutorial. Simply adapt the piping to the shape you want to recreate.
Simple Easter Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
Obviously, marshmallows are not the only way to create bunny cake toppers, fondant is also a great alternative. So if you’re more of a fondant fan, this cake idea might be more suited to you.
A little guidance
If you have no idea how to create a bunny cake topper with fondant, you can follow this fondant bunny tutorial.
Tricolor Easter Cake.
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Finally, you can also recreate bunnies simply by using buttercream. So if you’re a die-hard buttercream lover you’ll love this cake design.
A little guidance
If you wonder how to recreate these stripes, you can simply follow this striped buttercream tutorial.
And if you’re looking for more bunny cake ideas, check out my 16 Cute Bunny Cake Ideas Perfect for Easter.
Fondant Easter Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a cute cake covered with fondant, this might be the perfect cake design for you.
A little guidance
My three tips when covering a cake in fondant are the following:
- You should pay extra attention when preparing your cake. Make sure it’s leveled, and your buttercream (or ganache) should be very neat to get a cleaner finish.
- You should roll your fondant to a thickness between 1/8th inch and 1/4 inch.
- You should keep in mind that your first attempt probably isn’t going to be flawless, but it’s perfectly fine because practice will make your technique perfect.
Finally, here’s a detailed video tutorial, that’ll teach everything you need about this process.
Tiered Easter Cake
Difficulty Level: 4,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Tiered cakes are perfect if you’re hosting a lot of people, and also give you more space to get creative.
A little guidance
When making tiered cakes, you have to pay extra attention to the structure of the cake. Therefore, you should always use a sturdy cake board for each tier. You should also support the bottom tier with dowel rods or bubble tea straws cut to the height of the cake. Finally, you should ensure each tier is leveled before stacking them.
Easter Cake Ideas for Advanced Bakers
These 3 Easter cake designs will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
3D Bunny Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
This 3D Bunny cake is perfect for you if you’re looking for a challenge and a showstopping Easter cake design.
Easter Basket Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
If you’re looking for something a little more floral, and that reminds the beginning of spring, this cake might be the best option.
Easter Egg Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
Finally, if you’re looking for a cute but impressive cake design, this giant Easter egg cake is the perfect cake for you.
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