We had lamb cakes in CT but they were just my Mom's idea since she was the wider amyl cake maker (her seven egg chiffon cake frosted like the skirt of a doll embedded in the center were frequently requested). I never knew there was a magical place like Chicago where lamb cakes were in every home and families celebrated with such fine rituals!

I have never yet seen lamb butter so I now have anothervreason to look forward to Spring!

Cathy2 wrote:I had hoped to learn the scope of the Easter lamb cake mold market from Wilton. Unfortunately they were not prepared to offer information for competitive reasons.

That's the reason they wouldn't quote sales numbers, but they couldn't give regional info because they sell to national retailers like Michael's, so they don't know where the distribution of the molds is.

On a seasonal note, last year Roeser's Bakery used its lamb molds to make reindeer.

I'm nearly sixty years old and had lamb cakes all my life here. Also the lamb butters I remember my grandfather getting them back in the l950's when I was a little girl. He was not Polish but of German descent.

I saw turkey butter around Thanksgiving this year.

LAZ wrote:

Cathy2 wrote:I had hoped to learn the scope of the Easter lamb cake mold market from Wilton. Unfortunately they were not prepared to offer information for competitive reasons.

That's the reason they wouldn't quote sales numbers, but they couldn't give regional info because they sell to national retailers like Michael's, so they don't know where the distribution of the molds is.

On a seasonal note, last year Roeser's Bakery used its lamb molds to make reindeer.

Thanks for the additional piece of information ... maybe someday I will inquire with Michael's.

I looked at the Roeser's website for the reindeer cake made from lamb molds. This sounds like a great idea to entertain my seven-year-old niece.

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:

LAZ wrote:

Cathy2 wrote:I had hoped to learn the scope of the Easter lamb cake mold market from Wilton. Unfortunately they were not prepared to offer information for competitive reasons.

That's the reason they wouldn't quote sales numbers, but they couldn't give regional info because they sell to national retailers like Michael's, so they don't know where the distribution of the molds is.

On a seasonal note, last year Roeser's Bakery used its lamb molds to make reindeer.

Thanks for the additional piece of information ... maybe someday I will inquire with Michael's.

I looked at the Roeser's website for the reindeer cake made from lamb molds. This sounds like a great idea to entertain my seven-year-old niece.

Regards,

I'd also recommend the two-headed lamb cake. It's a miracle!

our tradition qualifies!

I don't know if this qualifies, but since we were just talking about it over the weekend, with my wife's family, I'll share it here too.

When we were kids, my dad would set a trap for the Easter Bunny. He told us if he caught him, we'd have Easter Eggs and candy all year long. We'd go out after supper, the night before Easter, dad would get a big galvanized wash tub and prop it up on a stick. He'd tie a carrot to the stick, with a foot of string, and the trap was set.

The next morning, the trap was always tripped, and it was our job to go out and carefully peak underneath, and catch the Easter Bunny before he got away. Sometimes, the carrot would be half eaten and have chew marks on what was left.

It was always talked about when my nieces and nephews were young, but I don't think anybody ever went to the full extent of setting up the trap. We are now getting into the next generation, so maybe Uncle Tim needs to bring this tradition back out of the family history books.

Everybody needs a crazy great uncle........

Tim

We always begged Mom to buy a lamb cake when we were young. They were readily available at Dominicks, Jewel and our local bakeries. Mom said ""they look pretty but taste shi**y" as it was a simple yellow cake with tons of commercial shortening based frosting. Plus it was expensive for our budget. We also begged for the lamb butter. Mom said it was not worth the price. Feeling deprived I swore that someday I would get these lambs to the table for my kids. After tasting a lamb cake at another's house, I hate to admit it, but Mom was right. All show and no taste. As for the butter, I found one at Produce World (on sale) and took that baby home. Let me tell you that unless conditions are perfect it is really hard to get butter lamb umolded from the plastic mold without destroying the wooly indentations or beheading it. But there it sat on my Easter table for all to enjoy...but no one cut into it! Finally I took it and cut off its rear end (heheh) and the lamb was slaughterd for our feast. I kept the mold for years and made my butter lambs until my kids got too old and the mold finally fell apart and cracked. But they did enjoy it and I think Mom would have liked the fact that I reused the mold for several years.