Anyone else remember these?
Posted by Remarkable_Data3710@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 55 comments
My grandmother made a cake shaped like a lamb (there was a cake mold that was 2 pieces so the lamb was 3d), which she covered in coconut for the fur. The other thing she made was a 3d Easter egg cake that was hollow inside and there would be a scene inside the that you would see when you looked through the opening.
The photos are not of her actual cakes or pans, but found out they were popular in the 70's and both pans were made by Wilton in 1971.
ZipperJJ@reddit
We still make a lamb cake every year. Just had one today! You can buy them from bakeries here in the Cleveland area.
Didn’t know you could make those sugar eggs at home. Those were magical. I had one I kept in a plastic box for a few years!
DiamondLight25@reddit
Yes, my mom used to make them. I still have a picture of the lamb cake.
ohnodamo@reddit
I remember seeing these but never got one myself. In my head I thought it was candy. I've learned my something new for the day and can go to bed.
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
You all have made my Easter terrific - thank you
Bender077@reddit
Fun story. My mother made the lamb one for my little niece when she was a child, and was coming up the stairs with the lamb cake when the head fell off and rolled down the stairs. It looked like the lamb was executed.
I can still see it, in slow motion, like a movie. We still laugh about this 30 years later. Even my mom learned to laugh about it!
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
That is hysterical
itgoesineasy@reddit
Mom made a lamb cake every year. She covered the frosting on the lamb with coconut. Then she used green food coloring and made coconut “grass” to go around the lamb. She used licorice jelly beans for the eyes and a pink one for the nose.
Normal-Philosopher-8@reddit
We were gifted a coconut lamb once or twice from and older woman at our church. We had to thank her every time we saw her the next few weeks (church was 3/4 times a week - lots of thanking) when the truth was, we all hated coconut. My parents eventually took it to work for coffee breaks.
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
YES! I thought I remembered coconut grass and I totally forgot about the jelly bean features
My grandmother always wanted me to eat the black eyes, I couldn't stand licorice then and still can't
Purple-Concept-2709@reddit
My aunt made an excellent lamb cake.
alleghenysinger@reddit
My aunt was a cake decorator. She had all these molds. Now, I'm wondering who got them when she passed away.
UrsaMajor7th@reddit
Sorry, I don’t remember your grandma’s baking. Good kisser, though
veracosa@reddit
My husband and I were talking about those sugar eggs yesterday. As a kid, you're like "I'm gonna go for it," because SUGAR! But they are gross.
I feel like there were a lot of stay-at-home-moms that did cake baking/decoration in the 80's as a hobby. Mine certainly did, so we all would get nicely decorated birthday cakes. Cookie Monster, etc. I remember looking at the catalog for cake supplies and seeing the Barbies and dome pans where you could make a skirt/dress out of cake and icing.
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
Yes, the Barbie stuck in the middle of the top of the cake!
I lived with my grandmother growing up and she would always bake and sew.
She made me the coolest Halloween outfits - I was Sylvester the cat one year and my head was full 3d and then another year I was a can can dancer and I had a skirt with a zillion layers underneath
She would grind her own meat to make kielbasa and sausage - anytime I smell metal shavings I think of her
AtomicGrendel@reddit
I was just talking about these with my dad this morning. My great grandfather would make a lamb cake every year, and was so proud of it. It weighed 40 lbs, needed a chainsaw to cut it, and tasted like crap. And every year I would get suckered by it. Yes, I would like a piece of cake…ugh, this thing tastes awful.
choctaw529@reddit
Those sugar eggs are still popular today. I haven't seen that cake & mold in probably 50 years.
SassyCatLady442@reddit
Yes. My mom made this once, but we had the pan for awhile.
Ok_Driver_6895@reddit
I still have a metal lamb cake mold but I haven't used it in a long time. (I have a Garfield stand-up cake mold, too.)
retro_lady@reddit
My made me that lamb cake for my first birthday. I've been seeing it a lot in instagram.
tweetyonetwothree@reddit
Yes! My mother would make a lamb or bunny cake for my birthday when I was little. Great memory.🩷
pocketdare@reddit
So that egg is entirely edible? That's pretty impressive actually. Fancy stuff
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
Depends on how you decorate the inside - there were candy versions of animals you could put inside as part of your scene, but my grandmother would sometimes cut out pics of us and cover it in Saran wrap and put it inside
Nisi-Marie@reddit
We are gifted some of those hollow diorama scenes one year when I was a kid. They were gorgeous, and I couldn’t wait to be able to start nibbling on them. The neighborhood bully broke into our house and her little gang stole all the candy and smashed them. I was devastated!
Cynthia, I hope you stepped on a lot of Legos in your life.
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
Seriously, wtf Cynthia - jealous much?
Nisi-Marie@reddit
This made me laugh!!!
Like looking back as a grown-up, I can totally see that her home life sucked, in major ways that I was blessed to not ever have to deal with. But as a seven-year-old, all I felt was rage.
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
Ah the ole hindsight is 20/20
SadLocal8314@reddit
I couldn't find my grandma's when I was cleaning up her house so had to buy my own.
Positive-Froyo-1732@reddit
When my grandma passed, I made sure I got the lamb cake mold from her kitchen. She also covered it with coconut. It was my favorite.
Commercial-Letter252@reddit
I have the cast iron version of the lamb mold. It’s have the molds for the eggs and I keep meaning to try making them but I forget until it is to late to get it done by Easter.
Competitive_Prune108@reddit
Yes, from today. Family tradition.
TwistedMemories@reddit
My use to make the sugar eggs with different scenes in them and sale them. It was small money, but she did pretty well with it.
Embarrassed-Cause250@reddit
Yes! A family friend who baked had those. She also used to drop off sugar viewing eggs right before Easter!
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
I loved the sugar viewing eggs
Embarrassed-Cause250@reddit
So do I. They are hard to find these days!
pasta666sauce@reddit
I thought they were the most magical things ever when I was a little child…. Thanks for the memories
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
Same - my grandmother used saranwrap to cover the eye hole on the egg, so you really felt like you were looking into something like a kaleidoscope
RedditSkippy@reddit
We had that sugar egg for a few years. We were forbidden from touching it.
stew_fibroid@reddit
I remember receiving them but never eating them. My mom most likely threw them away or hid them because they were only for looking at.
RedditSkippy@reddit
My mom wrapped up the egg and saved it for a few years. Then it must crumbled and she threw it away.
gauriemma@reddit
We made our lamb cake last night!
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
Can you post a pic link?
Anne-with-an-e-77@reddit
You can still rent Wilton pans at Bulk Barn in Canada! I did a 3D race car a few years ago and I did a regular (flat) roller skate last month.
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
A library about a half hour from my house has a baking pan closet you can borrow all types of pans from - I think it is a great idea.
Anne-with-an-e-77@reddit
I love that! I’d be borrowing pans all the time.
No_Conversation7564@reddit
That's incredible! I love that idea.
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
Right? Instead of paying tons of money for a mold, you can just borrow and on the flip side if you buy a pan for an event but you aren't planning on using it again, you can donate it to the library for the community to use.
Downtown_Anteater_38@reddit
One year my mother made that lamb cake. When she went to get it from the kitchen to serve dessert the head had fallen off and was lying on the table looking up at us beseechingly, as if to say, “heeeelp meeeee, baaaah, my head fell off, baaah”
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
That is pretty funny
No_Conversation7564@reddit
Yes, I have that pan and like to make it for Easter. I didnt do it this year though. 😔
No-Ambition7750@reddit
Yep, that and the panda bear cake.
dodgerecharger@reddit
German here, you still get the lamb 3D Form in supermarkets, some will sell baked lambs for Easter too( for the lazy Grandma) . But without coconut. Here, its just some powdered sugar.
Remarkable_Data3710@reddit (OP)
Now that you say that, I remember seeing the lamb cakes in a grocery store, years ago, but not recently
The lamb form they sell now are they still metal or silicone?
I believe my grandmother's were copper colored
dodgerecharger@reddit
Metal and silicone. Depends in the Brand
MandyLee77@reddit
I'm from Buffalo NY it's a staple here at Easter time
PinkyLeopard2922@reddit
I think I remember my mom making those fancy ass hollow sugar egg dioramas for church Easter decorations when I was a kid (dad was the pastor) She was into cake decorating and had all those fancy icing tips. My mother in law was so excited one year to visit us at Easter and make a bunny cake out of two round sheet cakes with our daughter who was probably about 6 at the time.