Buttercream wool and jelly bean eyes: The art of the Easter lamb cake As Easter approaches, people around the country will be dyeing eggs, preparing baskets, attending Easter Vigils… and baking lamb cakes. These aren't cakes made of lambs, nor standard sweet cakes iced with pictures of lambs. Rather, the cake itself is baked in the shape of a lamb (usually a nestled lamb with folded legs), and topped with a sprinkling of powdered sugar, or swags of buttercream piped to look like wool. These...