Jolly Bunny Cake | Fitness and Freebies

Jolly Bunny Cake

This cake is bursting with the juicy fruit flavors of delicious jellybeans.

Ingredients:
One package (about 18 ounces) white or yellow cake mix (with pudding in the mix)
3-3/4 cups (10-ounce package) sweetened coconut flakes, *divided
One can (about 13 ounces) ready-to-spread soft whipped vanilla frosting
Jelly Beans
Red licorice sticks (for cupcakes)

Directions
Heat oven and prepare two 9-inch round baking pans as directed on cake mix package. Prepare cake batter with whole eggs, water and oil as directed on package; stir in 1/2-cup coconut. Divide batter evenly amoung prepared pans; bake and cool as directed.

Instructions:
Place one whole layer on serving tray. forming head.

When cooled, cut the round in half, frost the top of one half, and place the other on top of it.

Frost with white frosting and decorate with jellybeans and colored frosting piped for "whiskers" and eyebrows, etc., as desired.

Note:
The bow-tie shown on the picture was made from yet another 9-inch layer of a cake but is not necessary. The decorations consist of coconut colored pink and jelly beans sprinkled atop. One could use white frosting colored pink as well.

Extra:
Turn your cake into a centerpiece. Color coconut flakes with green food coloring and arrange around the base of the cake to resemble grass. Then scatter additional jellybeans on top of the coconut grass.

Recipe makes one cake, about eight servings.