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Easter Basket Cake Recipe

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Your guests won't guess how simple it is to cut and assemble this crowd-pleasing cake. Food coloring brightens the store-bought frosting that decorates the basket and eggs, and turns flaked coconut into green Easter grass.

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Easter Basket Cake Recipe

Prep: 30 min. Bake: 20 min. + cooling

Yield: 8-10 Servings

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Ingredients

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

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.

How-To: Basket Diagram >

Originally published as Easter Basket Cake in Quick Cooking March/April 2003, p13

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Reviewed on Mar. 13, 2013 by BitsyBet

Here is the link to the diagram on how to cut the cake into the basket and egg shapes:

http://hostedmedia.reimanpub.com/TOH/Images/recipe-channel/eggs-in-a-basket.jpg

Reviewed on Mar. 20, 2012 by Oceanwave03

To see the basked design for the cake you need to click on (THIS DIAGRAM) in the recipe, which is the third dot down on the directions.

Reviewed on Jan. 25, 2011 by tagsfan1

I will try to upload a picture from my magazine:

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/tagsfan/100_0627.jpg[/IMG]

Reviewed on Mar. 24, 2010 by lbailla1

I was going to make this but there was no "diagram below" to follow:(

Reviewed on Aug. 12, 2009 by 011361042927

There is no "diagram" below.

Reviewed on May. 17, 2009 by sweetsue1006

Re: Easter Basket Cake

I have a question also......how do you cute the cake to get the basket shape (including the handle and eggs???)????? Thanks

sweetsue1006

Reviewed on Apr. 12, 2009 by wargofive

Hi The cakes are just 2 round cakes, 8 inch. frosted together. Then handles was made with ribbon attached to a piece of plastic. The frosting is white, sprinkled with coconut and green coconut in the center

Linda

Easter_Bunny_family_doorste.jpg picture by wargofive

Reviewed on Apr. 10, 2009 by cookingbabe21

I have a question.... I'm not quite sure how to shape the cake. Could you tell me how to please?

Reviewed on Apr. 10, 2009 by momsrecipes

Reviewed on Apr. 09, 2009 by wargofive

Hi this is just a 2 layer cake filled, coconut on top of white frosting, soem dyed green for the center. Peeps around the sides, one had a plastic easter decoration in the middle

Hope this helps

Linda

Reviewed on Apr. 09, 2009 by gilcon50

would appreciate a diagram!

Reviewed on Apr. 09, 2009 by Judith A. Hill

Reviewed on Apr. 01, 2009 by wargofive

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