Mini Easter Basket Cakes

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I made these mini Easter basket cakes and am so delighted with how they turned out – I just had to share them!

They are so cute and pretty easy to make – you just have to have the correct pan, that’s all!

I had received a little basket pan as a gift last year – these are supposed to be for strawberry shortcakes but I think they look pretty cute as Easter baskets! 

I filled each little basket with some Robin’s eggs and a little Lindt chocolate. 

I sprinkled them with a little powdered sugar so you can see the basket pattern better!

French Yogurt Lemon Cake (recipe adapted from NY times)

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup almond flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• grated zest of 1 lemon
• 1/2 cup plain greek yogurt
• 3 large eggs
• 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup canola oil

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350F degrees ( or 325F convection oven).  Butter the pan and place in the freezer.
2. Combine the flour, almond flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk together and set aside.
3. In a separate bowl, place the sugar and zest in a bowl and rub the sugar and zest together with your fingertips.  Do this until the sugar is moist and aromatic.
4. Next, add the yogurt, eggs and vanilla to the sugar bowl.  Mix until it is well combined.  Then add the dry ingredients.
5. Add in the oil by folding it into the mixture.  Your batter will be thick with a slight sheen.
6. Take the pan out of the freezer, and fill each of the baskets about 3/4 of the way full.  Place in oven and bake about 20 minutes, or until cake becomes golden brown and a knife inserted into the cake comes out clean. Transfer to a rack and cool. Remove from pan.

You can just make this in a loaf pan too instead of the basket pan. Bake instead for about 50 minutes.

Now it can be a little dry – I would actually recommend serving it with some fresh fruit.  While the robins eggs are cute, I don’t think they will actually go well with the cake!  It would also go well with some lemon curd!  I love using the Lindt chocolates – see my Easter sweets bar here.

You can get the basket pan here or at Amazon!

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