Make a quick and easy Nutella Crepe Cake this Easter! Decorate it with some fake dirt and carrots as well as some Easter bunnies that look like they’re digging in the dirt and raiding the garden of carrots.
You can keep the decorating part even simpler and just make some grass out of coconut flakes (add coconut in a Ziploc bag, add a few drops of food color dissolved in 1 tsp of water, seal and shake the bag) and place some Easter jellybean eggs on top. Easy peasy, right?
Ingredients/Tools:
- Your favorite crepes – I made these coffee crepes
- Nutella (if you want the filling less chocolaty and rich mix in a few tablespoon of whipped cream)
- A few chocolate cookies like Oreos, crushed
- Orange, green, white & pink fondant to make the carrots & bunnies
- A fondant veining tool
- A small leaf plunger (optional)
- Some Easter jellybean eggs
Directions:
Make your crepes… the more the merrier! I think I made around 30, we couldn’t resist and ate 5 so I was probably left with 25, at most! Allow them to cool completely before putting everything together.
To make the tops of the carrots, roll out some balls out of orange fondant and shape into a cone. To make them look more realistic you can score lines into the carrots using the veining tool or a blunt knife (I was distracted by my crying baby and forgot this step… oh, the joys of motherhood 🙂 !).
Top each carrot with a leaf made out of green fondant. You can use a small leaf plunger to make them, like the one in the picture, or just shape a small ball of fondant into a teardrop shape and score some lines using the veining tool.
To make the bunnies, roll out two balls out of white fondant. For the tails, make two smaller balls and attach them with some water. Poke the tails a bunch of times with the veining tool or a pointy end of a paintbrush. For the feet make tiny ovals out of white fondant and attach them with some water. Make the pads of the feet and toes out of pink fondant and attach them with water as well.
Spread about one tablespoon of Nutella between each crepe.
Add a few generous tablespoons of Nutella on top and cover the cake.
Sprinkle crushed chocolate cookies on top to create the dirt.
Arrange your carrots and bunnies on top and sprinkle some more crushed cookies around the carrots if you want.
Line the edges of the entire cake with the Easter jellybean eggs.
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Your Nutella Crepe Cake looks like a great dessert for Easter, it is awesome! Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday today, it is great to have you at the party. Hope you have a very special week and come back soon!
Miz Helen
Roxy, this looks beautiful with all the colors. To be honest though, I’d probably make it simply and leave off the fondants just because I don’t have time to spruce it up. Nutella crepes are one of my favorite indulgences, and one I haven’t made for a long time. Thanks so much for the inspiration! Just wondering, do you make your own fondant or buy it? If you make it, I’d love to see your recipe!
Thanks Jelli! If you have the colored fondant it would probably take you 15 minutes to make all those decorations but yes, if you want to keep it even simpler you can use some jellybean eggs, peeps, chocolate bunnies etc… so many options !
I use store-bought fondant as well as homemade one. Here’s the recipe I’ve been using 🙂 – https://roxyskitchen.com/how-to-make-honey-fondant-to-cover-and-decorate-cakes.html
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What an absolutely darling cake for Easter. Thanks for bringing it by and linking it up at the weekend Social! I do hope to see you again next week. 🙂
Hi Roxy! This cake is so perfect for Easter and I just love it! The little fondant bunny is just too adorable! 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing this with us – pinning! Hope you have a happy Friday and a fabulous weekend!
Thanks Cindy, I had so much fun making it :)! Thanks for pinning, have a great weekend!