With only 3 ingredients, making these salty cookies couldn’t be simpler. When you are ready to bake, you can prepare the dough and then chill it. Serve as an appetizer or as a small snack with wine.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 10 |
| Yield: | 1 to 8 inch round basket |
Ingredients
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
- 1 (16 ounce) can white frosting
- 2 drops green food coloring
- ½ teaspoon water
- 2 cups flaked coconut
- 1 (14 ounce) package candy-coated chocolate pieces
Instructions
- Prepare the cake mix and bake the cake in two 8 inch rounds according to package directions. Cool completely.
- Cut a circle out of the center of one of the layers, leaving a ring that measures 1 1/2 inches from the outer to the inner edge. Place the uncut layer on a serving platter and frost the top. Place the ring layer on top of the frosted layer, and frost the sides and top of the basket. Decorate the sides and top by pressing candy pieces into the frosting.
- To tint the coconut, combine water and green food coloring in a medium bowl. Stir in coconut with a fork until evenly tinted. Place green coconut grass in center of cake basket.
- To make a handle, cut a piece of aluminum foil 8×16 inches. Fold in half lengthwise 4 times. Wrap with ribbon, securing the ends with tape. Insert ends of the handle into the cake top. Fill basket with Easter candy and goodies, if desired.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 668 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 106 g |
| Cholesterol | 6 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 11 g |
| Sodium | 488 mg |
| Sugars | 87 g |
| Fat | 25 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Love the idea! I made a citrus coconut cake and soaked the tops with lemon to add some extra punch. Then used a homemade buttercream frosting which I piped on top in bright pink. The died coconut was super cute and I loved that extra special touch.
This was so fun and super easy!!!
This came out great! I tweaked it a bit but it looks amazing!
A few of the relatives thought it was a porcelain decoration!!! It was really v
Made 3 layers with 9 inch round pans. Had to use 1.5 box cake mix. Used edible Easter grass instead of coconut for the grass.
Great idea! Instead of using a white cake mix and white frosting I used a blue velvet for the bottom layer and pink velvet for the top layer. I used cream cheese frosting. It turned out great. I thought it would be mostly the kids that would like it but I was wrong. 🙂
So much fun decorating,!!!
This is such a fun cake to make
the cake looks so good to eat and have for easter thanks for the pic of the cake
Such a cute idea. I tried it two ways: once with the candies, and once with the forked basket weave look. Both were adorbs. If you’re frosting challenged, the candy makes it all seem tidy and pretty, and if your cake is a little lopsided, well, that’s just very basket-like, isn’t it?
Loved it and so did my whole family! A huge hit. I used Hershey’s perfectly chocolate cake recipe with homemade vanilla buttercream and was great. Thank you so much for the great idea!
I love how this cake turned out!! I used two hard plastic replacement straws along with the handle from a gift bag to assemble the handle and it is very sturdy. Applying the big bow added a lot and helped to detract from my less-than-perfect basket piping. I thought the basket weave technique was the hardest part about this project. Place a jelly bean with some icing for stabilization behind each Peep to keep them standing upright. I used a recipe for a lemon cake with raspberry jam filling and a lemon meringue icing to make the inside extra appetizing. This cake is sure to add something special for young and old at your Easter meal!!
Beautiful, delicious, festive cake!!
Well this cake looked so good, that even when part of it collapsed (due to one of the layers needing another minute or two in the oven,) I still received a lot of compliments. I used a chocolate cake, which I covered in pink-dyed frosting. Then, I used a basket weaving technique for the frosting using pink and purple colors for the sides. (If you have never used this technique, it is much simpler than it looks. I had found a tutorial by Wilton on Youtube.) I used different colors of marshmallow chicks and spiced jelly bean eggs for the top decorations. I tried to spread green-dyed frosting into the center of the cake basket, but then realized it would be easier to pipe it, since the cake sides were breaking apart as I was spreading it. (I did not use the coconut, because i don’t like it.) Overall, this looked fantastic, despite the collapsed section.
Easy to do and turned out great!
outstanding recipe!
Thanks for all the cool pictures to inspire me to make my own basket cake! Did a 2 layer choc. cake frosted with a basketweave tip. Used a piece of clear,flexable tubing (bought for cheap at Lowes) covered in ribbon for the handle. Secured with long bamboo shish kabob sticks. My Easter guests thought it was a real basket. : )
This was so fun and easy to make. I wasn’t sure exactly how I wanted to decorate it so I didn’t put too much on the cake and it turned out so nice. Love this recipe and what an excellent idea, thank you.
SUPER easy to do! I used my own combination of candies. But definitely used the peeps. That was a great idea/suggestion! My nephew, who is 3 years old, was completely enamored by the Easter Basket cake and loved being able to have a little taste (a piece of candy out of the basket) before having to wait literally hours to be able to cut it. 🙂 My bf, who is VERY handy, helped me fashion a handle out of thin jelly strips that I had found in fruity flavors, therefore in pretty colors. I braided it and he weaved some floral wire loosely through it to give it strength and form…and then just un-weaved it when my nephew just HAD to eat the handle! 🙂
Huge hit at Easter. Everyone loved it! And they were so amazed I did it myself. It was great! Thanks for the great idea!
My 5yr old daughter and I just decorated this cake, Easter Morning. She had soooo much fun doing it! Turned out great! Warining: If you let the kiddos imagination run wild you might not be able to eat it for all the sugar!!