Cooking Wiser with Terri Geiser

 

Bring a little sweet time to Easter this year. Bake a cake and get the whole family involved in decorating.

I used a boxed cake mix but you can certainly make the cake from scratch. The key is to use what you have at home. When shopping, remember to check the ingredients needed to make the cake.  See my tips for making the cake taste homemade.

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Easy Easter Bunny Cake

Makes 2- 9 inch rounds

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 60-75 minutes, includes decorating

Ingredients:

• 1 boxed cake mix, your favorite flavor
• Each cake mix requires different amounts of ingredients but generally you will need
• Water (I substitute milk)
• Oil
• Eggs
• Optional ingredients for decorating
• Cream cheese frosting (ready-made or see my recipe for homemade)
• Jelly beans
• M & Ms’s
• Food coloring
• Coconut
• Sprinkles

Instructions:

Make the cake according to package directions.

Allow cake to cool slightly.

Frost cake and add decorations before the frosting sets up (hardens).

Give your bunny a special bow tie or hair bow.

Terri’s Tips:

Substitute milk for water in cake mix. You can also use butter to replace the oil, but this adds more calories. It is a special time so you can splurge.

Make the cake in advance and freeze, remove from freezer and frost cake. This makes frosting a little easier. Or frost the cake while slightly warm. This will make the frosting a little less stiff and easier to spread.

When mixing food color into coconut start out slowly and add until you are happy with the color.

Add a few drops of water to help blend the color into the coconut. Red food color will turn pink when mixed with the coconut.

Give your bunny character. Be creative. I saw a cute idea for making a bunny going into a hole. All you could see was his rump, paws and big cotton tail.

Color chart:

Basic colors: Red, Blue, Yellow. From these colors you can make other colors and shades of colors