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Easter Basket Cake

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Updated Feb 17, 2023
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This Easter Basket Cake idea is too cute not to try! Moist yellow cake, chocolate fudge frosting, shredded coconut and candy eggs make this Easter Basket Cake just as delicious as it is adorable. Serve it up at your next spring get-together and wait for the compliments to roll in!

Easter Basket Cake

  • Prep Time 30 min
  • Total 2 hr 18 min
  • Servings 12
  • Ingredients 6
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Make and cool cake as directed on box for two 8- or 9-inch round cake pans.
  • Step 
    2
    Place 1 cake layer, rounded side down, on serving plate. Spread with about 1/3 cup frosting. Top with second layer, rounded side up. Frost side of cake and spread a thin layer of frosting on top of cake. Make a basket weave pattern in frosting on side of cake by drawing inch-long horizontal and vertical lines with tines of fork.
  • Step 
    3
    Shake coconut and 3 or 4 drops food color in tightly covered jar until evenly tinted; sprinkle on top of cake. Place candy eggs on coconut. Store loosely covered.

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