Bunny's Easter Lamb Cake
When we moved to New Minden, IL, we were invited to the Twenhafel’s (our neighbor’s) for Easter dinner. Bunny wanted to make a Red Velvet Easter Lamb cake. She had inherited her mother’s lamb cake mold, she had the recipe for Red Velvet cake and she was determined to make her first Lamb Cake.
She mixed the ingredients together, poured the dough into the mold and baked it.
She took the cake out of the mold, set it on a plate, decorated it with white frosting, sprinkled coconut flakes over the frosting for “fur” and used jelly beans for eyes, nose and mouth. She decorated the plate with tinted coconut and jelly beans. It looked wonderful!
After dinner she set the cake on the table.
Soon the lamb started to settle as a large crack opened on its side. Out oozed liquid Red Velvet cake mix – it looked like blood! The center of the lamb was not cooked and as the cake settled the Lamb fell from its own weight.
Guests grabbed spoons, knives and used fingers to scoop up the raw dough, while the head was cut and enjoyed.
Memories of the Lamb that was “slain” brought laughter for many a year after that.
She mixed the ingredients together, poured the dough into the mold and baked it.
She took the cake out of the mold, set it on a plate, decorated it with white frosting, sprinkled coconut flakes over the frosting for “fur” and used jelly beans for eyes, nose and mouth. She decorated the plate with tinted coconut and jelly beans. It looked wonderful!
After dinner she set the cake on the table.
Soon the lamb started to settle as a large crack opened on its side. Out oozed liquid Red Velvet cake mix – it looked like blood! The center of the lamb was not cooked and as the cake settled the Lamb fell from its own weight.
Guests grabbed spoons, knives and used fingers to scoop up the raw dough, while the head was cut and enjoyed.
Memories of the Lamb that was “slain” brought laughter for many a year after that.