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March 6, 2015 by: Ashley Greenwood

Semi-Homemade Easter Cake

Thanks to Nestle Toll House for sponsoring today’s party planning tips. All opinions about this wonderfully delicious product are my own. 

Spring celebrations are right around the corner! We all want to be ready for those Easter dinners and family potlucks.

Whipping up a fabulous dessert can be a little intimidating. Here’s a Semi-Homemade Easter Cake made with the help of Nestle Toll House Refrigerated Cookie Dough that will wow your family and friends!

 

AMAZINGLY simple tutorial for decorating a Semi-Homemade Easter Cake! #Easter #SemiHomemade #easterCake

Like every other mama out there, I am constantly pressed for time and looking for shortcuts in the kitchen.

Take for instance last weekend when we were invited to dinner at a friend’s home. I wanted to bring a yummy dessert but didn’t have to time to bake something from scratch.

So that morning we made a grocery run to pick up a few things. I grabbed a pre-made cake from the bakery and two packs of NEW Spring Nestle Toll House Refrigerated Rolled & Ready Cookie Dough Sheets.

Since we all of us are desperately hoping all the March rain will bring April flowers so I decided a Semi-Homemade Easter Cake decorated with cookie flowers would be perfect for the evening’s get together.

AMAZINGLY simple tutorial for decorating a Semi-Homemade Spring Cake! #Easter #SemiHomemade

At first I thought these packages were pre-cut cookies but it is actually two sheets of cookie dough. That gave us the opportunity to cut whatever shape and size of cookies we needed to decorate our spring cake.

I was grateful that Nestle Toll House Rolled & Ready Cookie Dough Sheets came ready to cut and bake without leaving my kitchen in a huge mess!

Here’s a baking tip: Use powdered sugar to keep the sheets of dough from sticking. It works like a charm and is much tastier than flour!

AMAZINGLY simple tutorial for decorating a Semi-Homemade Spring Cake! #Easter #SemiHomemade

We used one inch and two inch flower cookie cutters to decorate our spring cake.

AMAZINGLY simple tutorial for decorating a Semi-Homemade Spring Cake! #Easter #SemiHomemade

Now it wouldn’t be baking without at least one of my children in the kitchen. This morning Little Boy joined the fun and helped me by cutting out the flower cookies from the pre-rolled dough sheets.

My children always love joining in the baking fun!

AMAZINGLY simple tutorial for decorating a Semi-Homemade Spring Cake! #Easter #SemiHomemade

While the cookies were baking I began to deconstruct the store bought cake.

Place waxed paper under the edges of the cake. This will help the cake plate stay nice and clean. Since the cherry on top wasn’t jiving with the spring theme I carefully removed it from the top.

AMAZINGLY simple tutorial for decorating a Semi-Homemade Spring Cake! #Easter #SemiHomemade

Our pretty spring flowers needed some green grass to sit in. Creating grass from shredded coconut and green food coloring was a great job for Tootsie. Everything was placed into a resealable bag for her to shake-shake-shake.

But for the grass to stick to the side of the cake it needed a layer fresh icing added to the bottom. Scraping the old icing away left a clean slate for new icing and green grass.

AMAZINGLY simple tutorial for decorating a Semi-Homemade Spring Cake! #Easter #SemiHomemade

AMAZINGLY simple tutorial for decorating a Semi-Homemade Spring Cake! #Easter #SemiHomemade

When the Nestle Toll House Sugar Cookies were cooled, the children and I decorated each one with brightly colored icing.  Tootsie loved the purple icing the best!

All that was left to do was circle the cake with the decorated cookies. Large gobs of icing on the back of each cookie held them in place on the side of the cake.

AMAZINGLY simple tutorial for decorating a Semi-Homemade Spring Cake! #Easter #SemiHomemade

AMAZINGLY simple tutorial for decorating a Semi-Homemade Spring Cake! #Easter #SemiHomemade

Our Semi-homemade Spring Cake looks so awesome on the dining room table I have to make another one for Easter this year! Thank goodness Nestle Toll House Refrigerated Cookie Dough makes it so simple!

AMAZINGLY simple tutorial for decorating a Semi-Homemade Spring Cake! #Easter #SemiHomemade

Nestle Toll House has been helping home bakers to bake up the best warm baked memories for over 75 years. Cookies and baking have created traditions for American families for generations. I hope you have been inspired to create baking memories with your children today!

I’m happy to report this semi-homemade cake recipe was the hit at the dinner party. The grown ups enjoyed the cake and the children had the best time choosing cookies from the sides!

Your comments totally make my day! 

They give me huge motivation to keep creating and having fun with my 3 Little Greenwoods! 

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Comments

  1. 1

    Katherines Corner says

    March 6, 2015 at 9:02 am

    It looks yummy and delish my friend. xo P.S. I invite you to share at my Thursday hop ( you can link up through Sat midnight)

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      3littlegreenwoods says

      March 12, 2015 at 7:12 am

      Making to note to link up with your party today! Thanks so much for the invite, Katie!

      Reply
  2. 3

    Lindsay Eidahl says

    March 9, 2015 at 7:58 am

    Yummo!!!!

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  3. 4

    Katie says

    March 9, 2015 at 8:24 am

    How fun!!

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    • 5

      3littlegreenwoods says

      March 12, 2015 at 6:59 am

      Thanks, Katie!

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  4. 6

    Bex Stark says

    March 9, 2015 at 11:05 am

    this is beautiful!!

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      3littlegreenwoods says

      March 12, 2015 at 6:58 am

      Thanks, Bex! I love that the cake was store bought. It saved me a TON of time in the kitchen!

      Reply
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    Tiffany@LivingSweetMoments says

    March 11, 2015 at 9:40 pm

    What a beautiful cake! Love the detail in the flowers border. What a neat idea

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      3littlegreenwoods says

      March 12, 2015 at 6:53 am

      Thank you so much, Tiffany! My children had the best time eating the cookies off the sides! 😉

      Reply
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    Erin says

    March 12, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    Looks delicious…and very springy too 🙂

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      3littlegreenwoods says

      April 5, 2015 at 7:43 pm

      Thanks so much, Erin! It was a perfect cake to serve for Easter dinner today!

      Reply
  7. 12

    Erin Kennedy says

    March 12, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    Such an adorable cake. Beautiful pics! Love this!

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    • 13

      3littlegreenwoods says

      April 5, 2015 at 7:44 pm

      Thank you, Erin!

      Reply
  8. 14

    Milka says

    March 13, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    Hi Ashley,
    I am visiting from the Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop.
    Such a cute cake. I like all the colors. 😀 Thank you for sharing. 😀

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    • 15

      3littlegreenwoods says

      April 5, 2015 at 7:44 pm

      I love all the colors on the cookies too! So much fun for my children to eat them off the cake! 😉

      Reply
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    Amanda says

    March 16, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    Genius idea! I love anything that saves me time, why haven’t I ever though to dress up a store bought cake before?!

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    • 17

      3littlegreenwoods says

      April 5, 2015 at 7:45 pm

      I know! Baking a cake from scratch can take forever but this one was super quick to whip up for Easter dinner!

      Reply
  10. 18

    amy says

    March 17, 2015 at 9:45 am

    Hi! Visiting from Motivational Monday. What a great idea and such a pretty cake!

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    • 19

      3littlegreenwoods says

      April 5, 2015 at 7:46 pm

      Thanks so much, Amy! I’m honored you hopped over to check out my Spring cake. Hope you had a wonderful Easter with your family!

      Reply
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    Becky @dempsterlogbook says

    March 21, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    Adding the cookies takes it up another level! Love the look! Thanks for sharing at Motivational Monday.

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    • 21

      3littlegreenwoods says

      March 23, 2015 at 2:11 pm

      Thanks so much, Becky! I love how the cookies look on the side of the Easter cake. My kiddos had the best time eating them off. 😉

      Reply
  12. 22

    Rachel says

    March 22, 2015 at 11:26 pm

    Your flowers are beautiful and I love when my kids help me “bake”, haha!

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    • 23

      3littlegreenwoods says

      March 23, 2015 at 2:09 pm

      Our little messy people do love baking with us! Thanks so much for the comment love, Rachel!

      Reply
  13. 24

    Amy@HomeRemedies says

    March 24, 2015 at 1:01 am

    Mmmm… cookies AND cake! The best of both worlds! Such a great idea to use a store bought cake, but then customize it to your theme! Thanks so much for sharing at Talented Tuesdays – Pinning!

    Reply

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