You won’t find any spectacular or unusual ingredients in this classic cake—just your standard baking ingredients like butter, flour, and eggs. But if you want to nail the Southern tradition of the Easter lamb cake, your success will begin and end with the right pan. Take it from us; we recently made our own, and this is the exact mold we used to absolutely perfect that recognizable lamb shape.

This Easter lamb cake tradition may have started abroad in Germany and Poland, but it has since taken on a life of its own down South. If you’re not lucky enough to have had your Southern grandma pass down her antique lamb pan to you, then you’re going to want to stick to our tried-and-true Nordic Ware Spring Lamb 3D Cake Mold. It’s now conveniently 35 percent off, so you can grab it at its sale price just ahead of the Easter holiday.

　　 Nordic Ware Spring Lamb 3D Cake Mold

Buy on Amazon The aluminum pan is made in the USA and comes in two separate pieces, one to make each side of the 3D cake. The mold measures 7.5 by 11.25by 3.4 inches, and also has grooves in it to create the texture of the lamb’s wooly fleece. 

From our own baking experience, we found it both straight-forward to use and easy to remove once the bake is done, which is extremely important considering the removal of the pan is the make-or-break step that can quickly turn catastrophic. But with this reliable mold, the result is a highly detailed, freestanding cake that compliments your spring and Easter decor and looks like it belongs in a professional bakery.

10 Easter Traditions You Will Only Find In The South But don’t just take our word for it. More than 900 Amazon reviewers are impressed, too, especially with the pan’s non-stick finish, the ease of use for beginners, and how easy the mold makes it to assemble the cakes together post-bake. The popular mold is also ranked by Amazon as the third best-seller in the Specialty & Novelty Cake Pans category, and more than 1,000 other shoppers have added it to their carts in the last month, too. With an average 4.6-star rating, it’s acclaimed for both its value for money and ease of use.

An avid lamb cake-baker who gave the mold a perfect five-star rating said, “I’ve been making lamb cakes with this pan for 20 years, and they are so good!” They added that the mold “keeps the cake very moist, no matter the mix” and that the cake “pops out nicely every time.”

“This pan was wonderful! It did everything I hoped it might—baked a perfect 3D lamb cake,” another shopper said. “The cake was baked through completely and evenly, the pan was easy to prepare and to clean by hand afterward, and it stores neatly with my other cake pans.” They were so impressed that they plan to buy more molds for themself and as gifts for others.

Other shoppers also purchased the popular mold to give as a nostalgic gift, hopefully sharing the family custom for years to come. “My grandmother made lamb cakes for my family each Easter, and I wanted to continue the tradition for my own granddaughter,” one five-star reviewer wrote. “She was thrilled when she opened the lamb mold [on] Christmas Eve and told me she’s going to bake a lamb cake for Easter.”

The Nordic Ware Spring Lamb 3D Cake Mold is marked down just in time for Easter, so add it to your bakeware collection while it’s 35 percent off. Shop our go-to Easter lamb cake mold now for $21 at Amazon, and keep scrolling for more adorable cake pans.

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