Easter Basket Cake

Easter Basket Cake

I made this from using just the base of my 

Wilton's giant cupcake pan.  I am by no means a 

cake decorator and my purpose for sharing my 

cakes is to show you that don't have to be.

After the base baked and cooled I  I sliced off the top 

to make it level and then scooped out about 

1/4"- 1/2" of cake evenly around the inside.

I was going to try my hand at frosting it by using 

a basket weaving design but was afraid I'd mess

it up so instead I came across a site that showed

how to make it look like basket weaving using

a fork .  They used chocolate ganache where as 

I just used regular frosting.  I know its not as neat 

as the regular basket weave design I think it works 

just fine.  I put a thin layer of frosting inside the 

top and around the opening of the cake edge 

then used a large a  large star decorating tip 

around the top and bottom of the cake.

Next I looked up how to color coconut to 

make the grass for my easter basket cake. 

I used two different colors of green...regular food 

coloring green and McCormick's Neon Green Food 

Coloring. I liked the variety of greens I got by

doing this. I then sprinkled my "grass" into the

center of the cake.

Next I added some of the Easter Egg Cake Pops

I made the day before. I also added some scrapbook 

paper flowers I stuck together with frosting and added 

pink candies for the center.

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other Giant Cupcakes I've made.

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