DIY Egg Shaped Cake

Easter is coming up and everyone is going to be celebrating. Why not show up to your festivities with a bright Easter Day egg cake. Kids love to decorate and make things that are edible so this is the perfect craft for you and your family to do together. Surprise others with your cake decorating skills by showing up with this easy to make cake.

The first thing that you need to do is go to your local grocery store and pick up two boxes of your favorite cake mix, base frosting, sprinkles and food coloring. If you want to make your cake different you can pick up edible Easter picture's that are made for the frosting.

Two rectangle are needed because they are for two cakes. It will be a double-layered cake that you can fill with strawberries or if you don't like fruit just stick with the frosting.

Bake the two cakes as instructed on the box. Make sure before you put the cake mix into the pans to butter the pans so the cake doesn't stay in the pan. Then wait until both cakes have completely cooled. The cake needs to stay completed cooled so the frosting doesn't fall off.

Grab a butter knife and gently go around the sides of the pan to get the cake away from the pan. Take a cookie sheet a put it on-top of the first cake pan and carefully flip the cake until it comes out. Do the same thing for the second cake.

The first cake needs to be cut out into an oval. The oval should start at the very top of the cake sheet and end at the very bottom. The first cake oval is your base cake so it needs to be bigger. When you are cutting, and doing the same thing for the second cake make the oval ½ inch smaller than the first cake.

On-top of the first cake frost it very lightly (people make the mistake of over-frosting the middle which leads to a lop-sided cake). After you have lightly placed the frosting on the top of the first cake place your strawberries or selected fruit in the middle (unless you don't want fruit which is perfectly fine). Carefully take the second cake and place it on top. It should look like half of an egg (shape).

Now you can use all of your base frosting on the cake. Decorate freely and sprinkle away. This is a great time to include the kids! Happy Easter!