Sunflower Peeps Cake Recipe with Homemade Chocolate Frosting (2024)

Sunflower Peeps Cake with Homemade Chocolate Frosting

This Sunflower Peeps Cake Recipe with Homemade Chocolate Frosting is perfect for spring and Easter celebrations.

• 1 chocolate cake mix 18.25 oz
• 1 box of instant vanilla pudding 3.9 oz
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 3/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 4 eggs beaten
• 1 cup sour cream or vanilla yogurt
• 18-20 Peeps
• chocolate chips

Chocolate Icing

• 1/2 cup butter melted
• 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder sifted
• 3 cups confectioners sugar sifted
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Baking Cake

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

• Grease and flour (2) 9 in cake pans.

• In a bowl, stir together the cake mix, instant pudding and sugar. Add the water, oil, eggs, and sour cream, mix until well blended.

• Pour into the prepared cake pans. Then bake for 25 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven. Insert toothpick if it comes out clean- cake is done.

• Cool in pan before inverting onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Chocolate Icing

• Stir together the melted butter and sifted cocoa

• Then use mixed to add the sugar and milk. Blend until smooth (shifting in the sugar and cocoa will help this process)

• When well blended, mix in vanilla.

• (left overs can be stored in refrigerator and reheated)

Building the Cake

• Frost the cake by layering icing in-between the two layers of cake and then frost the entire stacked cake

• Place the Peeps around the outside rim of the top of the cake. Be sure Peeps are almost all the way on the top (just a bit of tail hanging off).

• Then embellish with chocolate chips in the center of the Peep ring.

• (Use a cake stand for the perfect presentation!)