Rainbow Ring Easter Basket Cake

Blogger Arlene Cummings of Cooking With Sugar shares a beautiful Easter basket cake that’s almost as fun to make as it is to eat. It’s an edible work of art! Learn to make this recipe with our how-to article.

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Prep Time 30 min
Total Time 2 hr 25 min
Servings 12

Ingredients

1: box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® white cake mix

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

: Yellow, red, blue and green food color

1: container (12 oz) Betty Crocker® Whipped fluffy white frosting

2: cups shredded coconut

: Betty Crocker® Decorating Decors® multicolored candy sprinkles

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Directions

1 Heat oven to 325°F. Generously grease 12-cup fluted tube cake pan with shortening or cooking spray. Make cake mix as directed on box, using water, oil and egg whites.
2 Divide batter among 3 small bowls. Add few drops yellow food color to 1 bowl; mix well. Add red food color to second bowl to make pink. Add red and blue food color to third bowl to make purple. Pour half of the yellow batter into cake pan. Carefully pour half of the pink batter over yellow batter. Carefully pour half of the purple batter over pink batter. Repeat layers (do not mix colors).
3 Bake as directed on box until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Place cake on serving plate.
4 Divide frosting among 3 small microwavable bowls. Microwave 1 bowl on High about 5 to 10 seconds; add few drops yellow food color and stir until frosting is smooth enough to drizzle. With spoon, drizzle yellow frosting back and forth over cake in striping pattern until all frosting is used (allow some frosting to drip down onto plate in middle of cake, if desired). Microwave second bowl of frosting; add red and blue food color to make purple. Drizzle frosting over cake in same striping pattern. Repeat with last bowl, adding red food color to make pink frosting. Decorate cake with sprinkles.
5 Place coconut in resealable food-storage plastic bag; add few drops green food color. Seal bag and toss until coconut is evenly tinted. Sprinkle coconut on serving plate around cake and in center for “Easter grass.”

EXPERT TIPS

Expert Tips

Add jelly beans or your favorite Easter candy to the center of the cake for added decoration.

Experiment with tinting the batter and frosting with different food colors. Pale blue looks nice too.

When adding the batter to the cake pan, don’t mix the colors—just pour them on top of each other.

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Posted 4/1/2013 1:05:16 PM REPORT ABUSE Marg24 said:

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This cake was so much fun to make! It tasted very moist and delicious and was a huge hit at the Easter Party. The only thing I did different was, I just used white icing, instead of coloring it. Then added rainbow colored sprinkles. It was a great surprise to cut into the white icing and see the colors inside the cake!

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Posted 3/31/2013 3:21:05 PM REPORT ABUSE littlkitty said:

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I made this cake very colorful the only thing I had trouble with was the cake fell apart a little when I tried to get it out but I pieced it together and with the drizzle you dont really notice my son 12 thought it was a cool cake and something different for easter since he is a little to old for the easter bunny

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