Speckle Cakes for Easter

Easter was always my favorite time in the bakery.

The bakery was just bursting with pastels in cakes & cookies

Adorned in everything Easter!

Last year I went pretty extravagant with my Easter Bunny Butt Cake

But this year I wanted to keep it simple.

Simple and delicious with these Chocolate Peanut Butter Speckle Cakes.

Using my best recipe for Chocolate Cake

Which happens to be a really easy one bowl mix

And one recipe for your favorite buttercream divided to make Peanut Butter Buttercream for the filling

Blue spirulina is a perfect natural food coloring for the robins egg blue icing!

Easter Speckle Cakes

The mini cakes were a fun way to share with multiple people

But of course you can make this into one larger family style cake

By baking the batter into 8″ cake pans instead

Each cake is speckled like a robins egg and a tiny chocolate coconut nest on top.

All you need is coconut flakes and vegan semi sweet chocolate

Pressed into a mini muffin tin lined with plastic wrap!

The full YouTube video below shows the step by step on how to make all of these decorations for this cake

I used Little Secrets chocolate candies for the “eggs” since they are vegan and taste just like Peanut M&M’s!

Well I’ve got a little secret myself to getting those Robins Eggs speckled like this!

FOR THE FULL STEP BY STEP YOUTUBE VIDEO TUTORIAL CLICK HERE

For more Easter desserts click the links below!

Vegan Cadbury Creme Eggs Recipe

Easter Bunny Butt Cake

Vegan Peanut Butter Cups

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Speckle Cakes for Easter

 

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Prep time

3 hours

Bake time

30 mins

Total time

3 hours 30 mins

 

You can make the entire recipe into a larger cake, the batter that I used for the sheet pan to cut my cake rounds is the same you would use for 3-7" cake pans or 2- 8" pans
I used a 3½" cookie cutter to make my individual cakes and with 2 layers in each and a nice amount of filling, these cakes could easily serve 2 people!

Serves: 6 mini cakes or 1-8" Cake

Ingredients

• 1 Recipe of my best Vegan Chocolate Cake
• 1 Recipe Buttercream of your choice *I used American
• Peanut Butter Powder Or Creamy Peanut Butter ¾ cup
• Unsweetened Flake Coconut 1 cup
• Vegan Semi Sweet Chocolate 4ounces
• Candy eggs or jelly eggs for nest as needed
• Garnish:
• Cocoa Powder 2 teaspoons
• Vodka or Vanilla Extract 1 Tablespoon

Instructions

1. First prepare the chocolate cake recipe as instructed on the blog post for that recipe, but bake all the batter into a greased and parchment lined 12" x 18" pan (half sheet pan)
2. Next prepare the buttercream recipe of your choice *I used the American Recipe
3. Divide the buttercream recipe in half and add ¾ cup of peanut butter powder (*or peanut butter) to half and a full packet of the blue spirulina food color to the other half.
4. Make the coconut nests by combining 1 cup unsweetened flake coconut with ¾ cup semi sweet vegan chocolate (melted) press a heaping tablespoon into mini muffin tins lined with plastic wrap.
5. Once they are set they will pop right out of the molds and peel off the plastic
6. Combine the cocoa powder & vodka or vanilla extract together and whisk smooth for the speckling effect
7. Assemble the cakes as shown in the video

Notes

The cakes will stay just fine at room temperature for up to 3 days in an airtight container.


For longer storage keep refrigerated for up to 8 days, covered well

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