Pinata Cake

7 ingredients
1 steps

Ingredients

  • Cooking spray
  • 2 16 -to-18-ounce boxes chocolate cake mix (plus required ingredients)
  • 7 wafer ice cream cones
  • 2 16 -ounce tubs vanilla frosting
  • 3 7 -ounce bags shredded sweetened coconut
  • Gel or neon food coloring (purple, yellow, blue, orange and pink)
  • Black icing, for decorating

Directions

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    ["Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Coat two 9-by-5-inch loaf pans with cooking spray; line with parchment, leaving an overhang.", "Prepare the cake mixes as directed.", "Fill the pans about two-thirds of the way with batter (you' ll have a little left over).", "Bake the cakes 45 minutes, then remove 1 cake from the oven and insert the top 1/2 inch of an ice cream cone 1 1/2 inches from an end as shown.", "Continue baking both cakes 10 to 15 more minutes.", "Let cool, then lift out of the pans.", "Use a serrated knife to trim the domed top of the cake without the cone; set trimmed-side down on a work surface.", "Use frosting to attach 4 ice cream cones to the 4 corners for legs.", "Transfer to the freezer.", "Trim the bottoms of the 2 remaining cones with a serrated knife to make pointed ears.", "Cut the cake with the baked-in cone in half to form the head (you won't need the other half).", "Set cut-side down.", "Use frosting to attach the \"ears\"" to the top of the head; transfer to the freezer.""

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