Cake:
- 1 boxed cake mix and ingredients called for on the box
- Red, blue and yellow food coloring
Buttercream Frosting
- 1 cup butter, room temperature (softened but not melted)
- 1 cup shortening
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 8 cups powdered sugar
- ¼ - ½ cup heavy cream
Decorations:
- 4 bags of Cadbury Mini Eggs
Instructions
Cake:
- Mix cake batter according to directions on the box.
- Put 1½ cups of cake batter into 3 separate bowls and add food coloring to make pink, blue and yellow cake batter.
- Pour into greased cake pans and bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes for 4-inch springform pans or 15-20 minutes for 6-inch cake pans. Bake until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
Buttercream Frosting:
- Beat butter, shortening, and vanilla for two minutes, until creamy.
- Add powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating after each cup.
- Beat in ¼ - ½ cup of heavy cream until light and fluffy. If necessary, add additional heavy cream, 1 tablespoon at a time until it is the consistency you want.
Assembly:
- Once the cakes have cooled completely, spread a little frosting in the center of the cake platter and place one of the cakes on the frosting. Spread about ⅓ cup of buttercream between the layers.
- Cover the entire cake with a thin layer of frosting, making a crumb coat which will seal the crumbs in place.
- Once the crumb coat frosting is dry to the touch, frost the cake with the buttercream frosting.
- Press Cadbury Mini Eggs into the buttercream frosting making a pattern
