Lemon Easter Basket Cake with Fresh Berries
 
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Only your imagination limits what how you can decorate this cake. You can fill the center with Easter candy. You can change the color scheme all together to create an autumn-themed cake, too.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: 16 slices
Ingredients
  • Cake
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup buttermilk
  • ¼ cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon zest
  • Glaze
  • 1 pound confectioner's sugar
  • ¼ cup lemon juice
  • Grass
  • 2 cups sweetened shredded coconut
  • 2-3 drops green food coloring
  • Berries
  • 2 cups of mixed berries will fill the center of this cake
Instructions
  1. Cake
  2. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
  3. Spray a Bundt cake pan with non-stick baking spray.
  4. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and set aside.
  5. In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter on medium speed until light and fluffy.
  6. Add sugar, beating until combined.
  7. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing after each addition.
  8. Add lemon juice and zest to buttermilk.
  9. Starting and ending with the flour mixture, add dry ingredients in three parts, alternating with buttermilk mixture, beating well after each addition.
  10. Pour cake batter into prepared pan.
  11. Bake 50 minutes to 1 hour, or until cake begins to pull away from side of pan and toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
  12. Let cool 10 minutes on cake rack.
  13. Turn out onto cake rack and let cool completely.
  14. Glaze
  15. Whisk together confectioner's sugar and lemon juice to form a glaze the consistency of white glue.
  16. With the flat part of the cake facing up (this would normally be the bottom of a Bundt cake), drizzle glaze over it to coat the cake.
  17. Decoration
  18. Grass: In a sealable plastic bag, shake the coconut and green food color until color is fairly well distributed.
  19. Carefully place dyed coconut in a ring around the outer edge of the cake - remember it's supposed to look like grass, so don't be overly neat with it.
  20. Handle
  21. Fold an 18-inch long piece of aluminum foil lengthwise four times.
  22. Secure a ribbon at one end of the foil and wrap to cover.
  23. Shape covered foil into long handle.
  24. Insert ends of handle about ¼ -inch from the edge of the cake.
  25. Tie a bow to one side of the handle.
  26. Fill center hole with mixed berries and pile the up in the center.
Recipe by Create Amazing Meals at https://createamazingmeals.com/2013/04/lemon-easter-basket-cake-with-fresh-berries.html