This effective Easter cake recipe with coconut and pineapple will ensure a little variety and fits perfectly with Easter because it has a nice rabbit shape. We offer you two variants of the cake - share with a rabbit template or the round cake in the middle and glue the two halves and decorate so that they are resembled in the grass.
Bake sweet bunnies
Ingredients fFor the cake:
- 2 1/2 cups of flour
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup of finished (or homemade) coconut cream
- 225 g of pineapple compote, in the juice
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups of sugar
- 1/2 cup of soft butter or margarine
- 3 big eggs
Coconut Butter Glaze:
- 3/4 cup of sugar
- 1/2 cup of flour
- 1 cup of coconut cream
- 2 The Kokoscreme
- 2 TL Vanilleextrakt
- 1 cup of unsalted, soft butter
For the decoration:
- 2 2/3 cups or 200 g sweetened coconut flashing
- 2 rosafarbene mandeldraged
- 1 blue jelly bean
- 1 red, heart -shaped sugar decoration for cakes
- 2 x Lackritzschnur (ca. 5 cm lang)
Prepare the rabbit with template
Preparation for the Easterhasen cake:
- Preheat the oven to 175 degrees. Getting and flouring a baking pan (33 x 22 cm).
- The cake: Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together. In a measuring cup, the coconut cream that mix the pineapple with the juice and the vanilla extract.
- Mix butter and sugar in a large bowl for 3 minutes. Gradually add the eggs to a low level.
- Add the mixture of flour and the pineapple mixture gradually, start with the flour and stop.
- Put the finished dough in the prepared baking pan and bake for 25-30 minutes (toothpick sample). Let it cool for 10 minutes, take it out of the mold and let it cool completely.
- The coconut butter glaze: mix the sugar and flour in a saucepan. Gradually stir in the coconut cream. Bring to the boil over medium heat until thick. Stir more often. Cook for 2 minutes with constant stirring on low heat. Take off the hob, stir in the vanilla extract and let it cool.
- In a large bowl with the mixer on a medium level, beat the butter until frothy, gradually add the coconut cream.
- After the cake is completely cooled, place on a cake plate. Cut the ears and the body of the rabbit with the help of a knife and the stencil. Crumble the superfluous parts and sprinkle on the tail and ears so that they become higher. Brush the cake with the glaze at the top and on the sides and sprinkle with coconut flipping. Slightly press the coconut ribs. Decorate the ears of the rabbit with dragées, the eye with the jelly bean and the mouth with the sugar heart. Use the liquorice for the mustache. Your bunny Easter cake is ready.
Make Easter cake “Hase in the grass” yourself
More ideas for the shape of the cake:
