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This clever lamb cake ditches the special mold and instead builds a charming Easter centerpiece by stacking layers of sponge cake into a dome and decorating it with cream, jam, and spiral sponge roll "fleece." The project takes about 5 hours total (including baking and chilling), but the work spreads across several stages, so you're not spending all that time at once—plus, no fancy equipment needed.

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Sponge roll batter

Separate the eggs into yolks and whites. Beat the yolks with the sugar until light, fluffy and pale yellow. Whip the whites into stiff peaks. Gently fold the whipped whites and the yolk mixture together with the flour.

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5 piece
Chicken Eggs

50 gram
Caster sugar

50 gram
Medium-Fine Wheat Flour
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Baking

Pour the batter onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and smooth it out evenly. Bake in an oven preheated to 180°C for about 9 minutes, until golden. Remove from the oven and roll up into a roll, parchment paper and all. Wrap in a tea towel and leave to cool completely.
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Making the cream filling

While the sponge roll is baking and cooling, cook a thick pudding from the milk and pudding powder. Sweeten to taste. Take off the heat and let cool. Once the pudding is completely cold, beat in the softened butter and curd cheese.

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500 milliliter
Fresh Whole Milk (3.5% Fat)

80 gram
Vanilla Pudding Powder

30 gram
Caster sugar

100 gram
Unsalted Butter

100 gram
Full-Fat Curd Cheese

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Filling

Once cooled, unroll the sponge and peel off the parchment paper. Spread with 1/3 of the jam and 1/3 of the cream.

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400 gram
Raspberry Jam
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Into the fridge

Let the roll firm up in the fridge, and in the meantime get started on the next part of the lamb.
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Preparation

Weigh your eggs in their shells, then use the same weight in caster sugar and the same weight in soft flour (this will come to roughly 500 g). Allow 2 tablespoons of hot water per egg, so 16 tablespoons in total.

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8 gram
Chicken Eggs

424 gram
Caster sugar

424 gram
Medium-Fine Wheat Flour

270 milliliter
Water
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Mixing it all together

Beat the egg yolks with the sugar and water. Once the mixture has thickened and the sugar has dissolved, whip the egg whites into stiff peaks and fold them into the batter alternately with the flour. Finally, gently fold in the chopped chocolate.

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50 gram
Milk chocolate
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The lamb's head

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spoon on the shape of the lamb's head. Grease a 25 cm diameter pot with oil and dust with soft flour. Pour the rest of the batter into the pot.
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Baking

Bake in an oven preheated to 180°C, fan setting. Put both the pot and the baking sheet with the head into the oven at the same time. The sponge cake will be done in about 50 minutes. Don't open the oven during the first twenty minutes, or the batter may sink.
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Removing the lamb's head, toothpick test

After that time you can open the oven and take out the lamb's head. After another 20 minutes, test the center of the cake with a skewer or toothpick. It should come out clean — that's how you'll know the cake is fully baked.
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Cooling and slicing into layers

Let the cake cool completely before cutting it. Slice it into five layers.
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Building the mound and spreading with jam

Leave the bottom layer as it is, at full size. Trim each of the following layers slightly with a knife so they form a neat rounded dome shape. Spread each layer with jam and stack them on top of each other, largest at the bottom, smallest on top.
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Crumb mixture

Crumble the trimmed-off pieces of sponge and mix them in a bowl with 2 tablespoons of the cream and 2 tablespoons of the jam.
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Coating with cream

Use this crumb mixture to shape the top of the lamb's body. Coat the whole cake with the remaining cream. If you have any jam left, you can stir it into the cream as well.
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Decorating with the sponge roll and the lamb's head

Slice the sponge roll into thin rounds and press them onto the cream all around the body to create the lamb's curly fleece. Decorate the head with melted chocolate and attach it to the body. Chill in the fridge overnight.

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50 gram
50% Dark Chocolate

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No-Mold Easter Lamb Cake

Name: Charming No-Mold Easter Lamb Cake
Prep time: 55 min
Cook time: 115 min
Total time: 285 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Czech
Ingredients: 400 gram Raspberry Jam; 474 gram Medium-Fine Wheat Flour; 270 milliliter Water; 504 gram Caster sugar; 50 gram Milk chocolate; 50 gram 50% Dark Chocolate; 5 piece Chicken Eggs; 8 gram Chicken Eggs; 100 gram Unsalted Butter; 500 milliliter Fresh Whole Milk (3.5% Fat); 80 gram Vanilla Pudding Powder; 100 gram Full-Fat Curd Cheese

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Prep 55 min Cook 1 h 55 min

Plus 1 h of resting (not counted in active time)

12 Ingredients

15 Steps

Very hard Difficulty

Ingredients — what you'll need

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Tea towel

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What's in it?

895 kcal

Calories

161 g

Carbohydrates

22 g

Fats

15 g

Proteins

The nutritional information is an estimate and may vary based on the specific ingredients used.

About this recipe

I bake and cook every single day, and yet I only got my first lamb-shaped cake mold after my grandmother passed away and I brought hers home with me. I'm sure plenty of you don't own a lamb mold either — maybe because there's no room for it in the kitchen, especially for something you'd only use once a year.

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The lamb's head

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Cooling and slicing into layers

Building the mound and spreading with jam

Crumb mixture

Coating with cream

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