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Sunflower Peeps Cake with Homemade Chocolate Frosting
This Sunflower Peeps Cake Recipe with Homemade Chocolate Frosting is perfect for spring and Easter celebrations.
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
American
Keyword:
cake, celebration, Chocolate, dessert
Author:
Mary Hoover
Ingredients
1
chocolate cake mix
18.25 oz
1
box of instant vanilla pudding
3.9 oz
1/2
cup
white sugar
3/4
cup
water
1/2
cup
vegetable oil
4
eggs
beaten
1
cup
sour cream
or vanilla yogurt
18-20
Peeps
chocolate chips
Chocolate Icing
1/2
cup
butter
melted
2/3
cup
unsweetened cocoa powder
sifted
3
cups
confectioners sugar
sifted
1/3
cup
milk
1
teaspoon
vanilla
Instructions
Baking Cake
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Grease and flour (2) 9 in
cake pans
.
In a bowl, stir together the cake mix, instant pudding and sugar. Add the water, oil, eggs, and sour cream, mix until well blended.
Pour into the prepared
cake pans
. Then bake for 25 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven. Insert toothpick if it comes out clean- cake is done.
Cool in pan before inverting onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Chocolate Icing
Stir together the melted butter and sifted cocoa
Then use mixed to add the sugar and milk. Blend until smooth (shifting in the sugar and cocoa will help this process)
When well blended, mix in vanilla.
(left overs can be stored in refrigerator and reheated)
Building the Cake
Frost the cake by layering icing in-between the two layers of cake and then frost the entire stacked cake
Place the Peeps around the outside rim of the top of the cake. Be sure Peeps are almost all the way on the top (just a bit of tail hanging off).
Then embellish with chocolate chips in the center of the Peep ring.
(Use a
cake stand
for the perfect presentation!)