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Rainbow Ring Easter Basket Cake

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  • Prep 30 min
  • Total 2 hr 25 min
  • Servings 12
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Looking for a bright, fun and ultra-tasty Easter cake recipe to surprise and delight your guests? Try out this easy rainbow Easter basket cake idea! A moist, ring-shaped cake is neatly drizzled with colorful icing and covered with candy sprinkles, creating a stunning rainbow Easter basket cake that will help you unleash your inner artist this spring.
By Arlene Cummings
Updated Feb 17, 2023
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Ingredients

  • 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ White Cake Mix
  • Water, vegetable oil and egg whites called for on cake mix box
  • Yellow, red, blue and green food color
  • 1 tub (12 oz) Betty Crocker™ Whipped Fluffy White Frosting
  • 2 cups shredded coconut
  • Betty Crocker™ Decorating Decors® multicolored candy sprinkles

Steps

  • 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.”

Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens

  • tip 1
    If desired, you can add jelly beans or any of your favorite Easter candies to the center of the cake.
  • tip 2
    Try tinting the batter and frosting with different food color options, like a pretty pale blue.
  • tip 3
    When adding different colored batters to the cake pan, pour them directly on top of each other and be careful not to mix them.

Nutrition

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