Easter Basket Cake

Name: Easter Basket Cake
Ingredients: 1 package white cake mix (regular size); 4 cups vanilla frosting; Pink, yellow, blue and purple gel or paste food coloring; 3 tablespoons sweetened shredded coconut; 3 drops green food coloring

5 ingredients

7 steps

Ingredients

1 package white cake mix (regular size)
4 cups vanilla frosting
Pink, yellow, blue and purple gel or paste food coloring
3 tablespoons sweetened shredded coconut
3 drops green food coloring

Directions

1

Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Pour the batter into a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan.
2

Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes; invert cake onto a wire rack to cool completely.
3

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4

, cut cake into a basket, handle and six eggs. Arrange basket and handle on a 19x14-in. covered board. Place 1/4 cup of frosting in each of three bowls; tint one pink, one yellow and one blue. Place 1 cup frosting in another bowl; tint purple. Leave the remaining frosting white.
5

Frost the basket purple. Frost the sides of the handle white. Cut a hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag insert star tip #32. Fill with white frosting. Pipe a robe border on the handle and on the top and bottom of basket
6

For grass, place coconut in a resealable plastic bag; add green food coloring. Seal bag and shake to tint. Sprinkle above the top of the basket.
7

Frost and decorate eggs as desired with white and tinted frosting. Arrange in and around basket.