Lamb Cakes: An Easter Tradition or a Nightmare?

Lamb Cakes are an Easter tradition, but they can also be terrifying. There are so many different ways to make them – lemon cake, pound cake, cannoli cake, and more.

If you order your lamb mold now and get enough practice, you can make a lamb mold that doesn’t look like a sleep paralysis demon. Scroll to the end to see some hilarious fails!

Lemon Lamb Cake

A creatively designed cake resembling a lamb, covered with coconut shavings and decorated with cake pieces for ears. — **Lemon Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Susan Branch.

This Lamb Cake uses Grandma’s homemade Lemon Daisy Cake recipe because it makes a firm cake, almost a pound cake but not quite, a cake that isn’t too crumbly and holds together.
Get the Recipe: Lemon Lamb Cake

Vanilla Lamb Cake

A decorative lamb-shaped cake covered in white frosting with colorful jelly beans on a bed of green shredded coconut, set on a white platter. — **Vanilla Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Panko Bunny.

This sweet Easter lamb cake is made from a tender vanilla cake and frosted to look like the cutest lamb with a perfectly sweetened buttercream frosting. Learn to make some grass from coconut and how to easily decorate this cake without any fuss or difficulty. Perfect for Easter Sunday dessert or any party!
Get the Recipe: Vanilla Lamb Cake

Renalde Lamb Cake

A charming lamb-shaped dessert made with frosting and shredded coconut, featuring a red nose and expressive eyes. — **Renalde Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Mid Century Menu.

Renalde Lamb Cake comes from Ruth’s 8 Days of Lamb Cakes. The frosting comes from an old recipe tin and includes raw egg whites. Give this recipe a try – it is an unusual one with great reviews!
Get the Recipe: Renalde Lamb Cake

Easter Lamb Cake

A freshly decorated lamb-shaped cake with fluffy white frosting, set on a bed of green coconut grass and surrounded by colorful candy eggs. — **Easter Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Midwest Nice Blog.

There’s no “Pinterest Fail” in sight with this in-depth, step-by-step recipe for the traditional Easter Lamb Cake Recipe! It will wow and impress your family, friends, and strangers on the internet! Don’t forget to check out the video tutorial below.
Get the Recipe: Easter Lamb Cake Recipe

Cannoli Lamb Cake

A decorative Easter dessert featuring a lamb-shaped cake made of frosting, surrounded by chocolate-dipped cannoli, and adorned with colorful flowers and green grass. — **Cannoli Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Homemade Italian Cooking.

This Cannoli Lamb Cake is a winner. The cake and frosting are easy to make. The hardest part is piping the rosettes on the cake and keeping it properly chilled. The eyes are chocolate chips, the ears and nose are cannoli shell bits and the cake is a box mix.
Get the Recipe: Cannoli Lamb Cake

Oma’s German Easter Lamb Cake: (Osterlammkuchen)

Looking for a German Easter Lamb Cake recipe? Look no further! Try Oma’s creative and delicious chocolate version to start your own Easter tradition. It’s vegan, too!
Get the Recipe: Osterlammkuchen

Lamb Cake

A whimsical dessert shaped like a lamb, covered in creamy frosting with colorful facial decorations, resting on a decorative plate. — **Easter Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Family App.

This Easter, experience the tradition of the lamb cake! Read on to learn how to make one and where this tradition started.
Get the Recipe: Lamb Cake

German Easter Lamb Cake Recipe

A decorative Easter cake shaped like a dog, covered in powdered sugar and tied with a red ribbon, surrounded by colorful chocolate eggs and straw. — **German Easter Lamb Cake Recipe**. Photo Credit: Chalking Up Success.

If you’re looking for a no-fail lamb cake that’s easy to remove from the mold, stands up well on the plate, and is deliciously moist, look no further! This authentic, German Easter Lamb Cake Recipe is so easy to follow, even beginner bakers will be impressed with the results!
Get the Recipe: German Easter Lamb Cake Recipe

Easter Lamb-Shaped Pound Cake

A whimsical cake shaped like a dog, covered in creamy yellow icing and adorned with a red ribbon, surrounded by green sprinkles. — **Easter Lamb-Shaped Pound Cake**. Photo Credit: The Spruce Eats.

Easter lamb cake (known as agnuszek or baranek wielkanocny in Polish) is a traditional Eastern European dessert. In the 1950s, the trend for frugal cooks tired of paying exorbitant bakery prices was to purchase a cast-iron lamb mold to make it themselves. These molds are considered family treasures that are passed down at Easter time and through the years.

Pound cake is the best candidate for a mold because of its close crumb. Scratch-made or purchased pound cake mixes both work fine. Any extra batter can be used to make a little cake for the swieconka basket.
Get the Recipe: Easter Lamb-Shaped Pound Cake

Lemon Lamb Cake with Popcorn Fleece

A creative cake shaped like a lamb made of popcorn, decorated with colored jelly beans on a bed of green shredded coconut. — **Lemon Lamb Cake with Popcorn Fleece**. Photo Credit: Dell Cove Spices.

If you’re from Chicago (or Eastern Europe, for that matter), you know that Easter means Easter Lamb Cake – a lemon-flavored cake baked in the shape of a resting lamb, slathered in buttercream, and covered in a coconut fleece. If you’re not a huge fan of coconut – try this fluffy, delicious alternative: use popped popcorn for the fleece, instead.
Get the Recipe: Lemon Lamb Cake with Popcorn Fleece

Shear Delight: A Gluten-Free Lamb Cake for Easter

A beautifully crafted lamb-shaped cake adorned with white frosting, flowers, and greenery, set on a delicate plate. — **Gluten-Free Lamb Cake for Easter**. Photo Credit: A Girl Defloured.

The lamb cake is an adorable (and vintage) symbol of spring, rebirth, and… personal kitchen nightmares? You don’t need to be afraid because I’m going to show you how to tame the “wild” beast that is the lamb-shaped cake mold. This gluten-free lamb cake, which is a delightfully moist gluten free coconut cake, is more docile petting zoo than untamed wilderness, draped in a luxurious cream cheese buttercream fleece.
Get the Recipe: Gluten-Free Lamb Cake for Easter

Lamb Cake without a Mold

A whimsical cake shaped like a fluffy sheep, featuring textured frosting and fondant details on a decorative stand. — **Lamb Cake without a Mold**. Photo Credit: Food Network.

Learn how to make an adorable buttercream-piped lamb cake – no mold needed – just in time for Easter with this step-by-step guide.
Get the Recipe: Lamb Cake without a Mold

Lamb Cake with Pound Cake

A beautifully crafted lamb-shaped cake decorated with coconut, surrounded by colorful jelly beans and green shredded coconut, perfect for Easter celebrations. — **Lamb Cake with Pound Cake**. Photo Credit: Tom Sienkewicz.

Tom’s Grandmother Sienkewicz used to make a lamb cake as part of her Easter meal, which the Polish priest used to come and bless on the dining room table. It took years for Anne to perfect her own lamb cake because the recipe which we got with the mold did not work very well. In the days when she used that recipe, the head would fall off unless the neck was reinforced by putting toothpicks inside the batter. She always worried someone would swallow a toothpick. Changing to this pound cake cured this problem: This makes a stiff dough and a more solid cake.
Get the Recipe: Lamb Cake with Pound Cake

Easter Lamb Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

A creatively designed cake resembling a fluffy white dog, decorated with swirls of icing and chocolate details, surrounded by colorful Easter eggs and flowers. — **Easter Lamb Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting**. Photo Credit: Julia Recipes.

Lamb-shaped cake is a delightful dessert that’s perfect for Easter or any springtime celebration. This cake is made with a dense vanilla sponge cake batter that’s baked in a lamb-shaped mould. Then the cake is covered with a creamy, tangy cream cheese frosting.
Get the Recipe: Easter Lamb Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Lamb Cake

A beautifully crafted lamb-shaped cake decorated with white frosting and surrounded by colorful Easter eggs on green grass. — **Easter Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Polish House Wife.

An Easter Lamb Cake is a popular centerpiece in many Polish homes. It’s a tradition that followed the Polish diaspora to the United States. If you want to try one, I have the recipe and decorating ideas, my own and others.
Get the Recipe: Lamb Cake

Lamb Cake

A decorative lamb-shaped cake covered in white frosting, adorned with a pink ribbon and surrounded by colorful candy eggs on green grass. — **Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Lehman’s.

This lamb cake has been a staple at Easter dessert for as long back as I can remember, started by my grandma. I am so grateful that it is a tradition my mother continued after my grandma passed away, and I’m so excited that I now get to continue it with my own daughter.
Get the Recipe: Lamb Cake

Easter Lamb Cake Recipe For Beginners

A delightful lamb-shaped cake adorned with white frosting, a bright orange hat, and pink flowers, resting on green shredded coconut grass. — **Easter Lamb Cake Recipe For Beginners**. Photo Credit: Merriment Design.

Lamb cakes are as Easter as the bunny herself! Make your family and friends a cute-as-a-button lamb cake this Easter with this simple step-by-step Easter lamb cake recipe using a lamb cake mold pan. I’ll show you my no-fail tips to make this traditional 3D lamb cake for Easter.
Get the Recipe: Easter Lamb Cake Recipe For Beginners

Traditional Easter Lamb Cake

A charming lamb-shaped cake covered in white frosting and shredded coconut, with candy eyes and a red nose, presented on a pink plate with a glass of sparkling water in the background. — **Traditional Easter Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Southern Living.

All you need to make this adorable Easter lamb cake is a special pan, and a little bit of decorating know-how. The cake itself is similar to a pound cake. It’s moist, but dense and sturdy enough to sit up proud and hold up under the weight of white chocolate, frosting, and decorations.
Get the Recipe: Traditional Easter Lamb Cake

Vintage Lamb Cake

A creatively designed cake shaped like a lamb, featuring buttercream frosting, pink rose accents, and a ribbon. — **Vintage Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Miss Mon Mon.

Learn to bake a vintage lamb cake from scratch!
Get the Recipe: Vintage Lamb Cake from Scratch

It’s Not Easter at My House Without This Vintage Lamb Cake

A creative cake shaped like a fluffy bunny, adorned with whipped cream and jelly beans on a bed of green coconut flakes. — **Vintage Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: The Kitchn.

This delicious vanilla sponge cake is covered in buttercream and nestled on an altar of green shredded coconut.
Get the Recipe: Vintage Lamb Cake

Vintage Lamb Cake

Two quirky cake creations shaped like animals, featuring colorful frosting, candies, and decorative elements, displayed on vibrant plates. — **Vintage Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Jean Chen- The Kitchn.

This delicious vanilla sponge cake is covered in buttercream and nestled on an altar of green shredded coconut.
Get the Recipe: Vintage Lamb Cake

Vintage Lamb Cake

A beautifully decorated lion-shaped cake covered in vibrant floral buttercream swirls in pink, yellow, and blue hues. — **Vintage Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Jean Chen- The Kitchn.

This delicious vanilla sponge cake is covered in buttercream and nestled on an altar of green shredded coconut.
Get the Recipe: Vintage Lamb Cake
The rest of these don’t have recipes – they are just for laughs!

Lamb Cake

A whimsical cake designed to resemble a lamb covered in coconut flakes, with decorative features like purple candy eyes. — **Vintage Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Mid Century Menu.

Lamb Cake

A whimsical cake designed to resemble a fluffy dog, covered in white shredded coconut, with colorful candy eyes and nose, presented on a white plate. — **Vintage Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Mid Century Menu.

Lamb Cake

A whimsical cake shaped like a dog, covered in white frosting, displayed on a decorative plate. — **Vintage Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Mid Century Menu.

Lamb Cake

A whimsical cake shaped like a lamb, garnished with fresh cilantro, on a yellow plate. — **Vintage Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Leigh Kelsey.

There’s nothing more terrifying than a hairless lamb cake!

Lamb Cake

A whimsical cake shaped like a sheep, covered in fluffy white icing, with a rosy nose and expressive face, presented on a decorated plate. — **Vintage Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Mid Century Menu.

Lamb Cake

A whimsical cake shaped like a creature with green frosting, a small pink umbrella, and decorative flowers. — **Vintage Lamb Cake**. Photo Credit: Miss Mon Mon.

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