Start with a cake mix and end with a coconut and candy-covered bunny rabbit; the perfect dessert for Easter dinner.
Ingredients: 1 package cake mix, flavor of choice (I used strawberry), 1 can ready made frosting or 1 recipe of buttercream frosting (below), 14 ounces flaked coconut, food coloring, chocolate chips, jelly beans, red string licorice.
Instructions: Prepare and bake cake according to package directions in two 8 or 9-inch round cake pans. Cool completely. Cut cake as shown in picture above. Frost sides of each cake piece. Assemble pieces as shown on a cookie sheet or large tray. Frost top of cake. Spinkle about 2 2/3 cups coconut evenly over top and sides of cake, gently pressing coconut onto sides. Tint coconut pink and green by placing in individual containers with lids (3/4 cup for red; 1 1/4 cups for green), adding a few drops of food coloring and shaking until coconut is completely colored. Sprinkle pink coconut over ears and bow tie; outline with chocolate chips. Decorate bunny face as shown in photo with jelly beans and licorice. Sprinkle green coconut evenly around cake.
Buttercream Frosting: Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened, 1/2 cup shortening, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 4 cups powdered sugar, milk or cream.
Instructions: Place butter and shortening in large mixing bowl and beat for a minute. Add in vanilla and continue beating until mixed. Add powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, until thoroughly incorporated. Add milk or cream, starting with 2 tablespoons, then adding more, 1 tablespoon at a time, until of spreading consistency.
"Let's Bake a Cake"
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