This easy Easter Peeps Cake is fun, festive and perfect for the Easter Dessert Table!
Bake your own cake from scratch, from a box or buy a store-made cake and just embellish it! This is a great way to hack a store bought cake!
Love them or hate them, Easter isn't Easter without Marshmallow Peeps! If you don't love to just snack on them, why not incorporate them into yummy desserts like this Easter Peeps Chocolate Tart or these Peeps Whoopie Pies and now this Peeps Cake!
This dessert is perfect for those, like me, who make the Easter appetizers (usually Tortellini Skewers), the Easter Ham and dessert! I spend so much time on my other dishes, and have little patience for dessert so this easy cheat cake is just what I like to serve for Easter.
This is absolutely the easiest cake I have ever decorated so don't be intimidated if cake decorating isn't your thing. No piping involved!
You don't even have to frost it neatly because it will be covered by the festive green coconut "grass". I just slather it on.
Instructions
- Bake a cake in a 9 x 13 cake / baking pan OR buy a cake!
- Tint your frosting and coconut with green food coloring.
- Frost the cake.
- Add marshmallow Peeps around the border of the cake, pushing into frosting to help them stick.
- Sprinkle the top of the cake with coconut to create the grass effect.
- I like to embellish with jelly beans but you could but mini eggs or any other Easter candy you prefer.
That's it. Do you believe how easy that is? I usually spend time molding a bunny, or piping a cute design, but I have to admit this is way easier and I even think way cuter!
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Easy Easter Peeps Cake
Ingredients
- Cake mix + ingredients required on box any flavor
- 1 can white frosting I used vanilla
- Green food coloring I used Wilton gel, leaf green
- 2 C coconut flakes
- 2 packages Peeps
- Jelly Beans or Candy Eggs for decorating
Instructions
- Bake cake according to box. Cool completely.
- Color your coconut and frosting with food coloring. A few drops to each should be enough.
- Frost cake with frosting, making sure to frost sides too, so the Peeps will stick.
- Line peeps up around edges of cake, pushing against cake to ensure they will stick to the frosting.
- Sprinkle coconut over top to create "grass".
- Add a few jelly beans or candy eggs to decorate the top.
Danita @O Taste And See says
This is tooooo cute! I love easy and adorable! Thanks for sharing...pinning.
foodyschmoody says
Thanks Danita!
Daisy says
What an awesome idea. This would be fun for my son's class since they are going to have a party.
foodyschmoody says
Oh you are right, kids would love this. Our school doesn't allow yummy treats anymore (boooooo!) for parties. You are so lucky you can still do that! Thanks for coming by!
Beeb Ashcroft says
Oh, that is SO CUTE! I love Peeps, it's so fun to decorate with them.
foodyschmoody says
Thank you so much 🙂
Lucy says
This is fantastic!! So cute.
kenneth Goh says
I found that the cake is very impressive and I have decided to share it with my Facebook group. Have a nice day.
foodyschmoody says
Thanks so much Kenneth
DesignedByBH says
Oh, my goodness, this is adorable! I absolutely love it!!!
- Brooke -
foodyschmoody says
Thank you so much Brooke
Melanie says
What a fun and colorful dessert!
Cheryl says
I am so grateful that you shared this delicous recipe at The Yuck Stops Here link party! I've really enjoyed getting to know you and your food at the party. I will also be including this and your Browned Butter M&M Blondies in my Easter/Passover Recipe Roundup. Starting tomorrow there will be voting for the favorite recipe from the roundup! If you would like to come by and vote for your recipe, or check out your competition and vote for one of them, stop over between now and Easter at 8 pm ET to vote! You can find the link at http://mommasangelbaby.com/?p=2132. Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe! I also hope you'll stop by The Yuck Stops Here again soon to share more of your awesome talents. HUGS & Happy Easter!
foodyschmoody says
Great thanks. I just popped over and also added my Caramel Carrot Poke Cake, perfect for Easter!
Ritchil Shafer (Cheng and 3 Kids) says
Oh my goodness, my kids would love this easter cake! I'm sure they'll have fun helping me make it too! Thank you for the recipe!
Sandra @ Scrumptilicious 4 You! says
So Cute! Thanks for visiting The Four Season’s Blog Hop! Sandra from Scrumptilicious 4 You.
Lisa says
Did you use sweetened or unsweetened coconut ?
foodyschmoody says
I usually use unsweetened if I'm using a really sweet frosting. Either one works, it just depends on your level of sweetness you'd like the cake to have.