{"id":20398,"date":"2014-04-03T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/?p=20398"},"modified":"2019-04-18T12:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:58:20","slug":"diy-easter-basket-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/2014\/04\/diy-easter-basket-cake.html","title":{"rendered":"Easter Basket Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Easy<\/div>\n

Okay friends, are you ready for new cake tutorial?\u00a0 I’m starting to think I have a thing for Easter cakes.\u00a0 You may have caught my\u00a0Chocolate Bunny Cake<\/a><\/strong> from last week or my Speckled Egg Cake<\/a><\/strong> from last year.\u00a0 Well, today I have another new springtime cake for you.\u00a0 This time we’re taking old-school basketweave and giving it a sleek and modern update.\u00a0 Inspired by the beautiful grapevine baskets that I keep seeing in my favorite stores. \u00a0You know the baskets I’m talking about, right?\u00a0 Thin spindly branches intertwined in a messy yet uniform way.\u00a0 Today’s cake is a new spin on basketweave requiring no special tools, no special tips, no tedious piping.\u00a0 It’s quick and simple yet can easily hold its own at your Easter table.\u00a0 It’s a new kind of Easter Basket Cake<\/strong>, and I hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n

\"Easy<\/p>\n

The best part about this cake is that it comes together in no time flat.\u00a0 It uses stringy marshmallows and a technique I originally created for my Cobweb Cake<\/a><\/strong> back in 2012.\u00a0 Melted marshmallow is stretched and pulled around and around the cake, creating a woven vine-like appearance.\u00a0 Your hands are sure to get messy but this is seriously the only downside… and for some, especially the little ones, this is the best part.\u00a0 Kids thrive on messy fun.\u00a0 And this project definitely is messy fun!\u00a0 My toddler assistant loved watching me swirl marshmallow all around this cake, but officially crowned herself as the guardian of the candy eggs.\u00a0 Lucky for her (and me), there were a few eggs left over when this project was all said and done.<\/p>\n

\"Easy<\/p>\n

To top off this basket cake, I used green shimmery sprinkles<\/strong><\/a>\"\"<\/strong> to create the look of sparkling grass.\u00a0 It made a soft little bed for the candy eggs<\/a>\"\"<\/strong>, while adding a nice pop of color.<\/p>\n

\"Easy<\/p>\n

\"Easy<\/p>\n

\"Easy<\/p>\n

Okay, now that we’ve seen the extreme close up… it’s about time to learn how it all comes together.\u00a0 Let’s jump right in to this Easter Basket Cake tutorial.<\/p>\n

\"Step-by-StepEASTER BASKET CAKE<\/strong>
\na DIY by Carrie Sellman<\/a><\/p>\n

Supplies<\/em> :
\n8″ round cake with chocolate frosting
\n8 ounces marshmallows
\n3 tablespoons cocoa
\nGreen Shimmer Sugar<\/a>\"\"<\/strong>
\nMalted Milk Candy Eggs<\/a>\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

STEP 1 :<\/strong>\u00a0 Prepare an 8″ round cake with chocolate frosting.\u00a0 Use your favorite recipe or one of our cake recipes<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Bake it from a mix.\u00a0 Or purchase one at the market.<\/p>\n

STEP 2 :<\/strong>\u00a0 Combine marshmallows and cocoa in a microwave-safe bowl.\u00a0 Heat in microwave for 30 seconds.<\/p>\n

STEP 3 :\u00a0<\/strong> Stir marshmallows.\u00a0 {Warning.\u00a0 Hot marshmallows will burn.\u00a0 And it hurts!} \u00a0Keep stirring. \u00a0Stir, stir, stir some more!\u00a0 Stir until marshmallows are cool enough to touch and cocoa is completely dissolved.<\/p>\n

STEP 4 :<\/strong> \u00a0This is where it gets messy.\u00a0 Or fun, depending on how you look at things.\u00a0 Using both hands, stretch a small glob of marshmallow out into a long, thin, stringy strand.\u00a0 Way<\/em> longer and thinner than what is shown above (it was hard to get a picture of this exactly… especially with marshmallow covered hands).<\/p>\n

STEP 5 :<\/strong>\u00a0 Start wrapping the stringy marshmallow around your cake.\u00a0 Go around and around the sides of the cake in a circular motion.\u00a0 Go light at first until you get the hang of it.\u00a0 Less is more!\u00a0 And thinner strands look better in the end.<\/p>\n

STEP 6 :<\/strong>\u00a0 Continue to stretch and drape marshmallow strings.\u00a0 Move up and down the cake as you continue to pull more marshmallow around the cake in a circular pattern.<\/p>\n

STEP 7 :<\/strong>\u00a0 Continue to add more marshmallow.\u00a0 Start overlapping the strings to completely cover your cake and create a woven appearance.\u00a0 Think of grapevine baskets as you go.\u00a0 Call it quits when you like what you see.<\/p>\n

STEP 8 :<\/strong>\u00a0 Fill a disposable piping bag (or ziplock bag) with sprinkles and cut a small hole at end.\u00a0 We’ll use this to carefully cover the top of the cake with sprinkles.\u00a0 We don’t want any stray sprinkles falling because they will stick to the sides of the cake.<\/p>\n

STEP 9 :<\/strong>\u00a0 Build your top layer of sprinkles by first outlining the edges.\u00a0 Get as close to the edge as possible without going over.\u00a0 Then move inward to completely cover the cake in a solid layer of sprinkles.<\/p>\n

STEP 10 :<\/strong>\u00a0 Place candy Easter eggs on top of cake.\u00a0 And you’re finished!<\/p>\n

\"Easy<\/p>\n

\"Easy<\/p>\n

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\nYOU MAY ALSO ENJOY:<\/strong>
\nSpeckled Egg Cake<\/a>
\nChocolate Easter Bunny Cake<\/a>
\nSugar Cookie Moss Cake<\/a>
\nChocolate Daffodil Cake<\/a>
\nMini Easter Egg Cakes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay friends, are you ready for new cake tutorial? I’m starting to think I have a thing for Easter cakes. You may have caught my Chocolate Bunny Cake from last week or my Speckled Egg Cake from last year. Well, today I have another new springtime cake for you. This time we’re taking old-school basketweave and giving it a sleek and modern update. Inspired by the beautiful grapevine baskets that I keep seeing in my favorite stores. You know the baskets I’m talking about, right? Thin spindly branches intertwined in a messy yet uniform way. Today’s cake is a new spin on basketweave requiring no special tools, no special tips, no tedious piping. It’s quick and simple yet can easily hold its own at your Easter table. It’s a new kind of Easter Basket Cake, and I hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[295,235,90,261,215],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog","8":"category-carrie-sellman","9":"category-diy","10":"category-diy-plus","11":"category-easter","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20398"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33268,"href":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398\/revisions\/33268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}