The lamb cake

As I mentioned on the air last week, we have a tradition in our family of having a lamb cake after each Easter dinner. No, it's not cake made from real lamb, it's a pound cake that is baked in a mold to look like a lamb. I'm sure it has some sort of symbolism, but as far back as I can remember our family just chops up this poor little lamb each year for dessert. Most years, the lamb is decorated with shaved coconut in an effort to look like a real lamb, but it actually resembles some sort of dog like creature. This year, I decided to go with chocolate. And, in hopes of freaking everyone out, I filled it with raspberry jelly so the lamb would look like it's bleeding when it was cut open. Hey, if I have to be a part of this tradition by baking some strange animal shaped cake I might as well make it memorable!