diff --git a/core/modules/rest/src/Plugin/rest/resource/EntityResource.php b/core/modules/rest/src/Plugin/rest/resource/EntityResource.php
index 4b4d027..ae00ada 100644
--- a/core/modules/rest/src/Plugin/rest/resource/EntityResource.php
+++ b/core/modules/rest/src/Plugin/rest/resource/EntityResource.php
@@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ public function post(EntityInterface $entity = NULL) {
       $entity->save();
       $this->logger->notice('Created entity %type with ID %id.', array('%type' => $entity->getEntityTypeId(), '%id' => $entity->id()));
 
-      // 201 Created responses have an empty body.
+      // 201 Created responses return the newly created entity in the response body.
       $url = $entity->urlInfo('canonical', ['absolute' => TRUE])->toString(TRUE);
-      $response = new ResourceResponse(NULL, 201, ['Location' => $url->getGeneratedUrl()]);
+      $response = new ResourceResponse($entity, 201, ['Location' => $url->getGeneratedUrl()]);
       $response->addCacheableDependency($url);
       return $response;
     }
diff --git a/core/modules/rest/src/Tests/CreateTest.php b/core/modules/rest/src/Tests/CreateTest.php
index 77f70be..7a8ba7c 100644
--- a/core/modules/rest/src/Tests/CreateTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/rest/src/Tests/CreateTest.php
@@ -361,8 +361,13 @@ public function createAccountPerEntity($entity_type) {
   public function assertCreateEntityOverRestApi($entity_type, $serialized = NULL) {
     // Note: this will fail with PHP 5.6 when always_populate_raw_post_data is
     // set to something other than -1. See https://www.drupal.org/node/2456025.
-    $this->httpRequest('entity/' . $entity_type, 'POST', $serialized, $this->defaultMimeType);
+    $response = $this->httpRequest('entity/' . $entity_type, 'POST', $serialized, $this->defaultMimeType);
     $this->assertResponse(201);
+
+    // Make sure that the response includes an entity in the body and check the UUID as an example.
+    $request = Json::decode($serialized);
+    $response = Json::decode($response);
+    $this->assertEqual($request['uuid'][0]['value'], $response['uuid'][0]['value'], 'Got new entity created as response after successful POST over Rest API');
   }
 
   /**