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Bunny Surprise Cake

Blogger Christy Denney of The Girl Who Ate Everything shares a favorite recipe Bunny Surprise Cake. This bunny cake starts with a vanilla cake mix and is decorated to look like an Easter bunny with coconut and assorted candies. By adding some Easter colors to the batter a colorful surprise awaits when each slice of cake is served.

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Prep Time 30 min
Total Time 1 hr 30 min
Servings 12

Ingredients

Cake

1: box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® vanilla cake mix

: Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box

: Pink, purple and yellow food colors

Frosting and Decorations

2: containers Betty Crocker® Whipped fluffy white frosting

3: cups flaked coconut

: Red licorice rope

: Jelly beans

: Betty Crocker® pink colored sugar

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Directions

1 Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Spray or grease bottoms only of two 9-inch round cake pans. Make cake batter as directed on box.
2 Divide cake batter evenly among 3 separate bowls (about 1 cup for each bowl). Dye each bowl a different color with pink, purple or yellow food color. Pour half of the purple batter into each of the 9-inch round pans. Pour half of the yellow batter over top of the purple layer in each pan. Pour half of pink batter over yellow batter in each pan. Do not mix.
3 Bake and cool cake as directed on box for two 9-inch rounds. Cool 10 minutes. Remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
4 Place one of the cooled cake rounds on serving tray. Cut other round cake as shown in Diagram A below and place ears and bow tie of the bunny in appropriate places on the tray.
5 Carefully frost cake with frosting. Sprinkle coconut over cake. Use licorice to outline bow tie and make whiskers and mouth on bunny. Use jelly beans for eyes, nose, and to fill in bow tie. Use pink sprinkles to fill in pink of the ears. Store covered at room temperature.

EXPERT TIPS

Expert Tips

Frosting this cake does not need to be stressful. The coconut topping is very forgiving and will hide imperfections.

Use a cookie sheet or cutting board wrapped in aluminum foil as your cake tray. No need to purchase a cake board. Or create an attractive display by covering a piece of sturdy cardboard with wrapping paper, then plastic food wrap. Stretch and secure with tape.

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Nutrition Information

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING

Serving Size: 1 Serving (Cake and Frosting Only)

Calories: 590
Calories from Fat: 280),

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 31g; 31%
(Saturated Fat 13g, 13% Trans Fat 3 1/2g 3 1/2% ),
Cholesterol: 55mg; 55%;
Sodium: 390mg; 390%;
Total Carbohydrate: 75g; 75%
(Dietary Fiber 1g 1% Sugars 56g 56% ),
Protein: 3g; 3%

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 0%;
Vitamin C: 0%;
Calcium: 8%;
Iron: 6%;

Exchanges:

1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 4 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 6 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choices:

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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Posted 4/2/2013 10:12:47 AM REPORT ABUSE Lise99 said:

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The kids loved this cake. Super fun idea for Easter. I used white cake mix and piped fluffy white icing for fur and tinted pink icing in the ears (my kids don't like coconut). Note before you get started, this cake is big...very big, make sure you have a base large enough for the cake!

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Posted 3/25/2013 2:58:29 AM REPORT ABUSE PSMia said:

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My birthday is usually around Easter ~ So when I was small my mom would make me this bunny cake for my birthday. And I was so excited! Now that she's passed away my sister has carried on her tradition for me~ and our children...I'm sooooo happy to see it here & have so many comments from others that reflect my own happy memories!

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