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Cut apart a 9x13 inch chocolate chip graham cracker cake then top it with marshmallow frosting to make this adorable S'mores Lamb Cake for Easter, a baby shower, or a farm themed party. Watch the video tutorial to see how easy this is to create.
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S'mores Lamb Cake with Video Tutorial
Prep Time
1 hr
Cook Time
28 mins
Total Time
1 hr 28 mins
 
Cut apart a 9x13 cake filled with graham crackers and chocolate chips into a lamb shape them frost with marshmallow frosting.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: lamb cake, smores cake
Servings: 12
Author: Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Ingredients
S'mores Lamb Cake
  • 1 box white or yellow cake mix
  • 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
  • 1 cup water
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • ⅓ cup vegetable oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 ½ cups chocolate chips
Marshmallow Frosting
  • 2 cups marshmallow cream
  • 2 cups white frosting
Chocolate Marshmallow Frosting
  • 1 ¼ cups marshmallow cream
  • 1 ¼ cups white frosting
  • ¼ cup cocoa powder
  • black food coloring
  • water if needed to thin out the frosting
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Line a 9x13 inch baking pan with non-stick tin foil, parchment paper, or baking spray.
  3. Combine the cake mix, graham cracker crumbs, water, sour cream, oil, and eggs in a large mixing bowl.
  4. Beat on low speed using an electric mixer for 30 seconds.
  5. Increase the speed to medium and beat for 1 ½ minutes.
  6. Fold in the chocolate chips.
  7. Pour batter into prepared pan.
  8. Bake for 28-32 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
  9. Remove from oven, and set pan on a cooling rack and allow cake to cool completely.
  10. Remove cake from pan.
  11. Cut cake in half so you have two 9 inch by 6 ½ inch pieces.
  12. One piece will be the unicorn's body.
  13. Cut the other piece in half so you have two 6 ½ by 4 ½ inch pieces.
  14. One piece will be the unicorn's head.
  15. Cut two 2 inch by 3 inch pieces for the unicorn's legs.
  16. Discard or eat the remaining pieces.
  17. Assemble the cake by placing the 9 inch by 6 ½ inch cake in the lower half of your cake board forming the unicorn's body.
  18. Set the 6 ½ inch by 4 ½ inch piece about 2 ½ inches from the top edge of the larger cake forming the unicorn's head.
  19. Place the two leg pieces under the body piece about ¾ of an inch from either edge.
  20. Mix together the marshmallow frosting ingredients.
  21. Spread the white frosting over the body cake.
  22. Mix together the black marshmallow frosting ingredients, adding a tiny bit of water, as needed to thin out the frosting.
  23. Frost the legs using the black frosting.
  24. For the head, brush black frosting onto about ¾ of the head piece, curving the back edge.
  25. Add white frosting on the back part of the head.
  26. Pour the remaining white and black frosting into individual pastry or zip top bags.
  27. Pipe on a black ear, a white tail, a white eyelid with eye lashes, and a nose and mouth.