Sugar Egg Cake Tutorial
With Easter just around the corner, we are happy to share our latest video for a Sugar Egg Cake with you!
When I was little, I LOVED my mom's sugar egg collection. There's something so special about sugar eggs with their delicate piping and sweet scenes inside.
We tried to capture that same feeling in today's cake design, and I think we came close ;0) I hope that you enjoy the tutorial!
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Materials for Sugar Egg Cake
We used four 6" round cake layers with two 22g. rice cereal treat squares shaped into the rounded top. (You could use scrap cake if you would rather to create the top, but cereal treats were simpler for us!)
White Chocolate Ganache (simple spreadable recipe--a 3:1 ratio of chocolate to cream. 680g white choc chips to 227g heavy cream) We used Nestle white chocolate chips.
Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream (or your buttercream of choice. I prefer a crusting buttercream so that I can use the Viva paper towel method of smoothing.)
Viva Paper Towels, or a paper towel/napkin that has no quilting (if using the Viva method of smoothing buttercream.)
2 cardboard cake circles- one for the base and another halfway up.
5 bubble tea straws or your supports of choice (4 for the bottom tier, 1 for the top (to support the cereal treat)
Coloring gels- Wilton Rose, Wilton Leaf Green, Americolor Lemon Yellow
Piping Tips: Wilton 3, 21, 104, 125
White Fondant- small amount for bunny (you could also pipe with buttercream if you'd rather)
Notes:
As we demonstrate in the video, the cake cardboard that is placed within the cake for support has a piece removed to allow for the carving that will come later for the interior scene of the egg.
After carving away the cake (using our oval cutter as a guide), The opening was approx. 3 inches long, 2.5 inches wide, and 1 inch deep.
This can vary of course in length & width, depending on your desired look, but I wouldn't recommend a depth of much more than 1 inch of cake.
Enjoy the Video!
Thanks so much for stopping by! We hope that you enjoy this Sugar Egg Cake tutorial! If you give it a try, we would love for you to leave a comment and photo below!
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It's so adorable! Love it love it love it!
Looks so beautiful x
That is soooo cute! I love it?
Great tutorial once again!
What a beautiful cake!
I'd luv to try it
How long does it take to complete?
How is the best way to slice into it?
I didn't realize you can take tips
off and change them to use the
same frosting bag
How hard is that to do?
What tip size makes the clouds inside the egg?
Hi Gracie, Melissa used a Wilton tip 3 for the clouds inside the egg
A friend and I made over 3,000 sugar eggs several years ago for upscale Texas department stores. I still make them occasionally. This one I made for my mom in 1983. It still looks beautiful. I made all the "critters", flowers, etc., out of royal icing.
Here's a shot of the inside. For some reason, the pics are flipped when posted!
Hi, slicing info and number of portions would be very helpful! Thank you.
Beautifull...Can I use the wonder Mould from Wilton?..
@Bobbye- What a beautiful sugar egg! That's amazing that you and your friend made 3000 of them, wow!! I would love to try it sometime.
@Gloria-- To slice, you'd first lift off the rice cereal treat top (you can make a horizontal slice just beneath the cereal treat or push a knife into the top and lift it off.) - After that, serve from the top of the cake first, and then remove the cardboard, supports, and serve from the bottom (just as with a double barrel cake). -
This cake makes about 20 servings. When we sliced it, the servings from the top half of the egg were sliced slightly wider since the slices were a bit shorter than the bottom tier (due to carving, etc.) I hope this helps!!
@Claudia-- Yes, we almost used the Wonder Mold pan for this cake but opted for this design since not everyone has a Wonder Mold. Also, The Wonder Mold is 8" wide at it's widest point and so either you would use this to make a larger sugar egg design (placing on top of an 8" tier)...or you could just fill the Wonder Mold partially if you'd like to place on a 6" tier as we did. If you try it, we'd love to hear how it goes!