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Easter Egg Hunt Cake

This beautiful looking cake is a shortcut recipe made with a cake mix. Saves time with the batter so you can have lots of fun decorating the cake. Bake your own Easter Egg Hunt Cake and go crazy with the decorations, the skies the limit! 

Course Dessert, Easter Desserts, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword cake mix, Chocolate Cake, Easter, Easter Cake, Easter Desserts, Easter Egg Hunt Cake, Easter Sweets

Ingredients

  • 1 box chocolate cake mix, plus ingredients on box
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Frosting

  • 8 ounce tub  Cool Whip, regular or light work best, you can also use a non dairy frozen whipped topping called TruWhip. 
  • 3 ounce box box vanilla instant pudding, sugar-free also works
  • 1 cup cold milk, I used 2 percent
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • green sprinkles for the top of the cake
  • Small and large jelly beans, these had delicious flavors like marshmallow, blueberry, lemon, and strawberry
  • small chocolate covered Easter eggs like Cadbury 
  • any other Easter candy of choice

Instructions

  1. Follow directions as instructed on box but, add in vanilla extract. After combined, pour into two 8- or 9-inch square or one 13 x 9 glass pan that has been sprayed with baking or cooking spray. Bake as directed on box for the size of pan.Let cool in pan on a cooling rack for 20 minutes. Looses sides with butter knife if needed and turn over onto cooling rack. Let cool another 20 minutes then flip back over and let cool completely. To speed up the cooling, place cakes on plates that you will be serving on and put in fridge until cooled. While cake is cooling, make the frosting by mixing pudding mix with milk. Combine with a whisk or hand held mixer until thickened. Add vanilla extract and mix until combined. Fold in Cool Whip. Mix until you have a uniform color. Place in fridge for just a bit. Have all your toppings ready to go before frosting the cake(s). With spatula or spatula, spread the frosting over both cakes. This is a very easy frosting to spread. It doesn’t have to be perfect. If you have leftover frosting save for dipping in some cookies later in the day. Go crazy with the green sprinkles, try to cover cake so it looks like green grass. When that’s done, go even more crazy decorating the cake with your favorite, yummy toppings. Place in fridge for up to an hour to set up. Enjoy the yumminess and Happy Easter!