Mini Easter Basket Cakes

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I made these mini Easter basket cakes and am so delighted with how they turned out – I just had to share them!

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They are so cute and pretty easy to make – you just have to have the correct pan, that’s all!

Easter basket cake

I had received a little basket pan as a gift last year – these are supposed to be for strawberry shortcakes but I think they look pretty cute as Easter baskets! mini Easter basket cake

I filled each little basket with some Robin’s eggs and a little Lindt chocolate. mini Easter basket cake. mini Easter nest cake. Cake is a French almond yogurt cake

I sprinkled them with a little powdered sugar so you can see the basket pattern better!mini Easter basket cake. mini Easter nest cake. Cake is a French almond yogurt cake

French Yogurt Lemon Cake (recipe adapted from NY times)

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup almond flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • a pinch of salt
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • grated zest of 1 lemon
  • 1/2 cup plain greek yogurt
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup canola oil

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350F degrees ( or 325F convection oven).  Butter the pan and place in the freezer.
  2. Combine the flour, almond flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk together and set aside.
  3. In a separate bowl, place the sugar and zest in a bowl and rub the sugar and zest together with your fingertips.  Do this until the sugar is moist and aromatic.
  4. Next, add the yogurt, eggs and vanilla to the sugar bowl.  Mix until it is well combined.  Then add the dry ingredients.
  5. Add in the oil by folding it into the mixture.  Your batter will be thick with a slight sheen.
  6. Take the pan out of the freezer, and fill each of the baskets about 3/4 of the way full.  Place in oven and bake about 20 minutes, or until cake becomes golden brown and a knife inserted into the cake comes out clean. Transfer to a rack and cool. Remove from pan.

You can just make this in a loaf pan too instead of the basket pan. Bake instead for about 50 minutes.

mini Easter basket cake

Now it can be a little dry – I would actually recommend serving it with some fresh fruit.  While the robins eggs are cute, I don’t think they will actually go well with the cake!  It would also go well with some lemon curd!  I love using the Lindt chocolates – see my Easter sweets bar here.

You can get the basket pan here or at Amazon!

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6 Comments

  1. March 25, 2018 / 2:16 pm

    these are so cute. all the littles would be loving the fun and bright candies in the basket! grownups too. sweet idea!

    • Angelina
      Author
      March 28, 2018 / 11:52 am

      Thank you! Yes – I ate it plain, actually. I’m sure the kiddos would love the candies!

    • Angelina
      Author
      March 28, 2018 / 11:52 am

      thank you!

  2. Melissa
    March 29, 2018 / 6:23 pm

    So cute! I’ve been struggling with coming up with dessert on Sunday. Your post reminded me that I have this pan, too! So now I know!

    Thanks for the memory-nudge!

    • Angelina
      Author
      April 3, 2018 / 12:46 pm

      I hope you were able to make them!

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