Chocolate Easter Lamb Cake (Schokoladen-Osterlamm Rezept)  –  This easy chocolate Easter lamb cake is perfect for Easter day. With only a few household ingredients and a lamb mould, you can bake the best chocolate Easter lamb cake!

An Easter lamb cake is a perfect for Easter! A beautiful symbolisation of Jesus Christ, the lamb of God (Agnus Dei). I am thankful for His Love and His sufferings for us.

My family loves a simple and delicious cake. No fancy icing, no fancy cream and no decorations are all we need. This chocolate German Easter lamb cake is one example of this simplicity.

This Osterlammkuchen can definitely be creatively decorated. However, we just love it with our classic icing sugar. This Easter lamb cake is an excellent beginner cake because it is so easy. Just take note on the tips below, you should be fine!

Ingredients/ Tips on making Chocolate Easter Lamb Cake

Butter: Instead of using butter, you can also use margarine. There might be a difference in taste. Personally, I think that this chocolate German Easter lamb cake tastes best, when butter is used. 

Chocolate: Occasionally, we receive many chocolates (such as Easter chocolates or Christmas chocolates) and we are not regular chocolate eaters, I would typically bake with whatever chocolate I have at home. For example, an Easter chocolate rabbit is used to bake this Easter lamb cake, since I still have two of them left from last year. 

Grease is key: Greasing the lamb mould properly with butter and all-purpose flour is extremely important. Do not use a cake release spray. I know it is very tempting and it is so much easier. Also, it saves much more time with a spray. However, it does not work as well as the traditional method. I have once tried using a cake release spray and I regret it deeply. 5 out of 10 cakes were ruined because I could not get the cakes out of the mould. It is very critical to get the butter and flour into every corner and details of the lamb mould. If not, the lamb (especially the head) will break.

Baking oven: Place the Easter lamb cake at the lowest level of your baking oven to prevent over baking. If not, you will find a “hole” in your lamb cake. 

How to make Chocolate Easter Lamb Cake

1. Put chocolate into a suitable bowl (e.g. a metal bowl) and melt chocolate over a hot water bath. 
2. Grease your Easter lamb moulds with butter and lightly dust all-purpose flour all over the mould. It is important to grease every single corners and small details of the moulds.
3. In another bowl, add butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and eggs. Mix ingredients until creamy with an electric (hand)mixer or by hand.
4. Thereafter, add in other dry ingredients (all-purpose flour, baking powder and cocoa powder) to the mixture and mix.
5. Lastly, pour melted chocolate into the bowl and mix again. Preheat baking oven to 180 °C.
6. Transfer the mixture into the moulds. It should cover about ¾ of the lamb. Remove air and make sure that the batter gets into every corner of the lamb by gently tapping the moulds onto the table-top. 
7. Place a parchment paper on the baking tray and bake the cake at 180 °C for 40 minutes at the lowest level of the baking oven. 
8. Once finished baking, take out the chocolate Easter lamb cake and place it on a cooking tray. Poke a toothpick to see if the cake is ready (if the toothpick is clear, then the cake is ready). Allow the Easter lamb cake to cool down completely before getting it out of the mould. 
9. Dust a generous amount of icing sugar over the cake, decorate and serve. 
10. The chocolate Easter lamb cake can be stored up till one week, if it is stored properly. 

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Printable Flags for Chocolate Easter Lamb Cake

Here is the free printable flags template for your Easter Lamb. Simply cut them out and paste them onto a long skewer. Thereafter, stick the flag into your cake. This is a great activity to do it with your kids. Please do not leave little children unattended during the DIY. 

How to serve Chocolate Easter Lamb Cake

You can be really creative with the garnish of this chocolate Easter lamb cake. Cream, chocolate icing or other decorations are most welcome. Personally, my family prefers a simple Easter lamb cake dust with a generous amount of icing sugar. This is because we like the original flavours of our cake. In addition, I bake about 8-10 Easter lamb cakes each year (to give them away). It is easier to pack and store the cake as it is.

Do not forget to print out your Easter flags for your Osterlammkuchen. Follow the instructions and stick a flag into your cake. On a paper plate, place the lamb cake with the flag and decorate the plate with some Easter eggs and chocolates. Wrap the cake and they make perfect gifts.

How to store Chocolate Easter Lamb Cake

If it is kept properly, this chocolate Osterlammkuchen (without any garnish) can be stored for up to a week in a cool and dry place. Usually, this would mean my cellar. It should be kept in an airtight container, or wrap it in a cling wrap. This cake can be frozen for a few months. Before serving, take the lamb cake out of the freezer and let it thaw overnight in the refrigerator. However, Easter lamb cake is more suitable to be eaten during Easter season. 

This chocolate Easter lamb cake is certainly one of my family’s favourite cake recipes. I hope you enjoy the recipe as much as my family does. Show me and tag me #chenguins on social media, so that I can see your recreation as well.

Do you celebrate Easter and have you tried this recipe? Tell me in the comment section below!

Until next time & guten Appetit!

Greetings from the Black Forest,
Pia

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