Gifts from the kitchen are a nice souvenir for many occasions. Especially at Easter, children, hosts of a dinner invitation, as well as friends and family are happy about homemade culinary gifts such as loaf cakes and cupcakes with Easter motifs. Today we'll show you that these gifts from the kitchen not only look great, but are also very speciallittle Easter surprisecan be.
A very special little Easter surprise from the kitchen
These cupcakes are a dream come true for every child! At first glance we see colorful buttercream in mint green and colorful sugar sprinkles. If the cupcake is cut in half, the big surprise follows: cupcakes with a colorful candy filling. It couldn't be sweeter!
Fill the candies into the cupcakes
You can use your own recipe for the muffins. There are no limits to your imagination when it comes to glazing. Here you can find some great recipes forCupcake Frosting und Toppingview.
Chocolate muffins with Smarties filling
The muffins are ready after about 20 minutes of baking time! However, allow them to cool completely before filling. Use a baller or knife to make a hole about 2 cm deep in each muffin and fill it with the Smarties. Then put the lid back on and pipe the prepared frosting onto the cupcakes.
Little Easter surprise baked in an eggshell
Do you want to surprise your family and friends with a great recipe this Easter? But everyone will be amazed when they peel these breakfast eggs. Instead of a hard-boiled egg, there is a juicy mini cake hidden inside.
Blow out and empty chicken eggs
Ingredients:
10 chicken eggs (one of the eggs for the cake, the rest just the eggshells for filling)
1/2 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
some salt
1/4 Tasse Butter
1/2 teaspoon lemon peel
1/4 cup sour cream
First poke a small hole in the top of the egg. It works with a corkscrew, a thumbtack or a needle. Then enlarge the hole slightly so that the dough can be poured in with a piping bag.
Place eggs in warm salted water for about 30 minutes
Allow the egg yolks and whites to drain into a bowl. Set aside the contents of one egg as it will be needed for the cake. Place the emptied eggs in warm salted water for about 30 minutes. Then place the shells on a cake towel and let them dry.
Put the dough in a piping bag and fill it into the eggshells
For the cake mix: Mix the flour, baking powder and salt and set aside. In a second bowl, mix one egg and the sugar and beat the mixture until creamy. Now the dry ingredients come together with the sticky mixture. Mix until the mass has combined. Add the sour cream and stir the mixture again.
Carefully cut off excess dough
Line the muffin tin with aluminum foil so that the empty egg shells can stand up. The hole points upwards. Fill the piping bag with the cake mixture. Fill each egg about 2/3 full with the cake mixture, otherwise it will bake out of the eggshell. When all the egg shells are already filled, place the muffin tin in the preheated oven and bake the eggs at 175 degrees for about 20 minutes. After baking, the excess part should be removed. Complete!
Chocolate or vanilla?
You can experiment again with different cake mixes. Whether cocoa or vanilla – it depends on your own taste. Blown out eggshells can still serve as pretty vases for spring flowers.
Serve crème brûlée in egg shells
Crème brûlée is a true highlight among French desserts. The delicious caramelized layer is typical of this creamy dessert. The cream is usually served in soufflé molds. If you don't have suitable molds, you can also fill the crème brûlée into empty egg shells.
Surprise muffin Easter bunny
The vanilla strawberry cupcakes are a fruity, heavenly delight! In pink icing they shine on every coffee table. They are quick to prepare and always turn out well. Delight your loved ones not only with a refreshing taste, but also with a little surprise! Serve with a knife and instructions to cut them straight down the middle. If your friends just bite into the cupcakes, they will miss the surprise.
The strawberry filling
Sure, it doesn't look like a rabbit. But we have to think three-dimensionally. When the round cupcake is cut in half, the filling will look exactly like a bunny head.
Ingredients and recipe
Ingredients icing:
1 cup unsalted butternut butter, room temperature
450 grams of cream cheese, room temperature
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons strawberries (fresh or frozen), finely ground in a blender
1/4 teaspoon salt
Ingredients for the little surprise:
1 baked vanilla cupcake
2 teaspoons of the finished strawberry frosting
1 tablespoon strawberries (fresh or frozen), finely ground in a blender
You can follow the classic recipe forVanilla batter for cupcakesconsequences
Little Easter surprise for your loved ones
To make the bunny inside the cake, take one cupcake and break it into crumbs. Mix the crumbs with 2 teaspoons of the frosting until a dough-like mixture forms. Add the strawberry puree until the desired color is achieved. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Fill 1/3 of the muffin cups with the vanilla cake mix. Shape the strawberry baking mix as shown: a small ball with a bowl-like shape on top. This should be placed in the center of each cupcake. Then put some vanilla dough into the bowl shape and then fill the muffin tin about 2/3 full. Bake for 20 minutes and let cool on a rack. Then apply the icing using a piping bag and you're done!
Chocolate bunny hidden in the loaf cake
There is a bunny hidden in this loaf cake that surprises the Easter table! You first have to bake a chocolate loaf cake and cut out the little bunnies from it. They are then placed very close together in a loaf pan and poured over with the second dough. Put it in the oven and Easter is ready.Surprise cake.
The second batter should be in clear contrast to the first cake
It is important that you bake two sponge cakes that are visually different. The bunny was colored with lots of cocoa and dark chocolate. The outer shell consists of a light sponge with a vanilla note.
Easter egg in rainbow colors
How colorful is that? This cake looks rather simple from the outside, but the inside reveals the purest explosion of color: the layers placed on top of each other are colored brightly and form an Easter egg. Isn't this a great alternative to the traditional surprise egg?
The dough can be easily colored with food colors
Strong blue, yellow, pink, orange – the brightly colored cake layers are easy to achieve using food coloring. First prepare the cake mix and divide it evenly into 5 containers. Stir in each food coloring. Using the piping bag, pipe the colored dough alternately onto a baking tray lined with baking paper.
Buttercream frosting in pastel pink
Bake the rainbow layer in the oven at 180 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes, then let it cool and then cut out egg-shaped slices. They are then placed very close together in a loaf pan (like the Easter Bunny surprise cake) and poured over with the second dough until the colorful eggs are hidden underneath. Once the cake has cooled, you can apply the icing.
Carrot bed in a plate
If you want to bake something original with your children for Easter, then the following ideas are ideal! Cupcakes decorated as carrots are a real highlight on every Easter table. There are lots of great serving options too!
edible Easter grass
For the first variant of carrot cupcakes, edible muffin cups should be made from fondant. These are then glued to the finished chocolate muffins with corn syrup. Orange glaze is then applied. Stick edible Easter grass in the center of each cupcake.
Fondant
Oreokek blendiers
Transfer to a plate and sprinkle with blender-ground Oreo cookies. This looks just like soil, doesn't it?
Strawberry disguised as a carrot
The second variant is much simpler. A strawberry represents the carrot and instead of baking chocolate muffins, you can prepare a quick chocolate pudding. The pudding can be served in dessert cups or glasses.
Chocolate pudding instead of cupcake
By the way, you can also enjoy a healthy sugar-free cocoa pudding - made from avocado, bananas and cocoa. The avocado gives the cake a nice, creamy consistency. Depending on your preferences, you can add milk (soy or almond milk also works), vanilla or a sweetener such as agave syrup or honey. It is advisable to consume the pudding on the same day, as storing it for too long makes the avocado taste a little soggy.
Little Easter surprise –Strawberry as carrot
As soon as the pudding is ready, you should now layer everything nicely into the dessert cups: it's best to start with the pudding and finish with the “soil” of Oreo cookies. According to the classic recipe, you have to let the filled pudding cool down in the refrigerator for a few hours.
Dip strawberries in glaze
To decorate the strawberries as carrots, you should first prepare a glaze and color them orange with food coloring. Then dip the strawberries in the glaze and let them cool. Afterwards you can make a few more stripes with a piping bag so that they look even more realistic.
Served in baby glasses
Serving suggestion: mini clay pots
You can also bake bread and cakes in clay pots. The pure clay is fired at 960 degrees. So the material can withstand the temperature of 180 grass. It is best to use unglazed clay pots.
