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Easter Basket Cake
* Prep: 30 min. Bake: 20 min. + cooling * Yield: 8-10 Servings
Ingredients
* 1 package (18-1/4 ounces) white cake mix
* 4 cups vanilla frosting
* Pink, yellow, blue and purple gel or paste food coloring
* 3 tablespoons flaked coconut
* 3 drops green food coloring
30
20
50 Directions
* Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Pour the batter
into a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan.
* Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the
center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes; invert cake onto a
wire rack to cool completely.
* Referring to this diagram, cut cake into a basket, handle and six
eggs. Arrange basket and handle on a 19-in. x 14-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.
* 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
* 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.
* Frost and decorate eggs as desired with white and tinted frosting.
Arrange in and around basket.Yield: 8-10 servings.
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Rhonda in Missouri
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