Easter Planted Carrots Cake

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Carrots made from frosting and dirt made of crushed Oreo’s on top of a delicious Easter Planted Carrots Cake makes a fun and festive Spring dessert. Or if you aren’t a cake person, try these Cadbury Egg Cookies!

Easter Planted Carrots Cake | So Cute!

Incredibly cute and incredibly delicious, make this chocolate Easter Dirt Easter Planted Carrots Cake this year for Easter! I used my fan favorite Perfect Chocolate Cake Recipe and a chocolate sour cream frosting which are both SO easy to make. The results? An impressive and festive cake.

Main Ingredients Needed for Easter Cake

This Easter Cake has a couple of different layers to it, but you really don’t need a whole lot of skill to make this either. Simple steps to a fabulous final product. It’s a super adorable cake for Easter and mighty tasty too. Here’s what you’ll need:

For the Cake

You can find the ingredients list here for the chocolate cake, minus the frosting and the chocolate chips.

For the Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting

• Salted Butter – softened, for flavor and consistency.
• Cocoa Powder – for chocolatey flavor! Try mixing in a bit of espresso powder to bring out the chocolate flavor even more.
• Powdered Sugar – this helps fill the frosting and sweetens it.
• Vanilla – for flavor.
• Sour Cream – this adds flavor, moisture and smooths out the frosting.

For the Frosting Carrots

• Salted Butter – softened, for flavor and consistency.
• Powdered Sugar – to sweeten and fill out the frosting.
• Vanilla – for flavor.
• Orange Food Coloring – this creates the orange little carrot tops you see on the cake. Make sure not to add too much food coloring!
• Milk – this helps combine all the ingredients and loosens up the frosting.
• Fresh Mint Leaves – the leaves that top the carrots. SO cute and edible!

Extra Decor

• Oreo Cookies – crushed to make the dirt around the carrots.
• Mini Cadbury Eggs – these candies line the bottom seam of the cake.

How to Make Easter Cake

For full details on how to make Easter Cake, see the recipe card down below.

Step 1: Prep

Preheat oven. In 9×13 pan, spray glass pan with nonstick cooking spray, set aside.

Step 2: Make Batter

In a large bowl, whip oil and sugar together. Stir in vanilla. In a measuring cup, stir almond milk and vinegar together. Set aside to curdle. In a different bowl, stir all dry ingredients together until evenly mixed. Alternate mixing in wet and dry ingredients to the batter starting and ending with dry.

Step 3: Bake + Cool

Pour evenly into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs after being inserted. Cool 15 minutes, then remove the cake from warm pans to a cooling rack. Cool Easter Dirt Cake completely.

Step 4: Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting

Take an extra close gander at all that creamy goodness!! It’s semi-similar to chocolate cream cheese frosting but is really its own entity. I am *slightly* obsessed with it now. Make this Easter Dirt Cake just for the frosting. Or just make the frosting and eat it with a spoon.

To make the chocolate sour cream frosting, mix butter, cocoa powder, and powdered sugar together to incorporate butter throughout the sugar. The mixture will be dry. Stir in vanilla and sour cream. Scrape sides and whip until completely smooth.

Spread frosting over the entire cake.

Step 5: Assemble Cake

In a small bowl, whip all ingredients for the orange frosting (carrots) until smooth. Spoon into a piping bag fitted with the Wilton 1A tip (wide round tip). Pipe 3 to 4 rows of 3 even rounds or dollops onto the chocolate frosting creating the tops of the carrots. Top each carrot with a sprig of mint.

Spread crushed Oreo cookies around each frosting carrot to create the dirt.

Finally, line the edges of the entire cake with mini Cadbury eggs. Cut Easter Cake into pieces and serve.

Want to Make Cupcakes Instead?

To bake Easter Cupcakes, line 24 muffin tins with paper liners, fill 2/3 of the way full and bake 15 minutes.

Cover cooled cupcake tops with chocolate frosting (no need to pipe things on, a butter knife will do), then pipe a little carrot on the top and garnish with mint.

Finally add a Cadbury chocolate egg next to the carrot and sprinkle the surrounding chocolate frosting with Oreo crumbs!

More Easter Treats to Try!

• Marshmallow Potato Chip Easter Nests
• Easter Bunny Cake
• Peanut Butter Eggs
• Orange Cupcakes
• Easter Cookie Dough Filled Rice Krispies Treats
• Banana Pudding Recipe

The printable recipe card for Easter Planted Carrots Cake is below. Save it, pin it, print it, make it. You know the drill. Have a wonderful day, friends!

If you make this recipe, I would really appreciate it if you would give it a star rating and leave your review in the comments! If you have a picture of your finished dish, post it on Instagram using the hashtag #laurenslatest and tagging me @laurens_latest.