As a
German Catholic homeschool family, Easter for us is about the Paschal Lamb of
God, and His passion, death and resurrection. The Catholic Lenten season takes
Catholic faithful on a journey to the Easter Triduum and Easter Sunday. Here
are Easter brunch recipes featuring Lamb of God cakes. Make these lamb cake
recipes as a centerpiece for your Easter brunch table. The Easter Lamb of God
cakes are an ancient Catholic tradition. Our youngest son's godparents are
Croatian and they brought us an Easter Lamb of God cake. 3D lamb cake recipes
are usually made with a quick release 2-piece set such as the Nordic Ware or
Wilton Stand Up Lamb Cake Pan set. If you don't have one of those, you can
improvise with these lamb cake dessert recipes.
Godmother's
lamb cake recipe featured a luscious cream cheese pound cake is perfect for
Easter brunch. I've name it Osterlamm Gottes which is German for Easter Lamb of
God. Also, in keeping with Polish Catholic Swieconka tradition, several items
from Easter brunch or dinner should be brought to church on Holy Saturday for
the Swieconka Blessing of the Easter Baskets. Items include eggs, butter,
cheese and meat. You might bring ingredients from Easter Lamb of God cakes.
Easter
brunch recipes for Lamb of God cakes.
Ingredients:
one 8-ounce package cream cheese
one
and 1/2 cups butter
three
cups raw sugar (Sucanat, Florida Crystals)
six
large eggs (room temperature)
three
cups unbleached white flour
one
teaspoon almond flavoring
fresh
sliced strawberries
whipped
topping
coconut
green
food coloring
Optional:
white chocolate or white almond bark, cream cheese frosting, white mini
marshmallows, jelly beans
Easter
brunch recipes for Lamb of God cakes directions:
Preheat
oven to 325 degrees.
Spray
stand-up lamb cake pan set with non-stick cooking spray and dust with flour.
Cream
butter and cream cheese. Blend in sugar. Add eggs one at a time and beat until
creamy. Add almond flavoring and blend.
Add
flour all at once; blend until smooth.
Use Nordic Ware lamb cake pan set (available from Amazon). Fill one half of pan with batter, almost to over-flowing. Snap the top
half in place; secure with clip or use household wire (to prevent the halves
from separating. Bake extra batter in greased spring form or regular cake pan.
Bake on middle rack for one hour and ten-twenty minutes. Top half may be
removed for the last ten minutes. Carefully release pan lock after an hour to
check cake. Cook on wire baking rack.
If
you don't have a standup lamb cake pan set, use a bread or loaf pan. Trim cake
down to oval for lamb's body. Bake one cupcake for the lamb's head. Add extra
frosting or curls of white chocolate almond bark to sides of head for ears.
Fill in with pink frosting for center of ears or place pink jelly beans in
center. You can also bake a sheet cake, use free printable Easter lamb patterns from Super Worksheets, trace on cake and cut out. Then decorate as
you would the standup lamb cake.
When
cake is hot, drizzle with thin icing made with warm water, powdered sugar, salt
and almond flavoring. Sprinkle with coconut (for lamb's fleece). Or frost and
cover with white mini marshmallows. You could also frost and decorate with
shaved white chocolate almond bark for curly lamb's wool. Use black frosting or
black jelly beans for lamb nose, feet and ears. Use black or brown decorator
frosting to draw face.
To
make this lamb cake into Easter Lamb of God cakes, draw a small cross near
lamb's body with brown frosting. You can design a cross from Popsicle craft
sticks painted brown. You can also attach two fudge stick cookies. Arrange
eco-friendly Easter grass or green tinted coconut around the base of the lamb.
Add a few Whoppers bird's egg candies, jelly beans or foil-wrapped chocolate
eggs. Use as an Easter brunch centerpiece.
