ARCO IRIS RING EASTER BASKET CAKE

1Heat oven to 325° f.. generously grease tube ribbed 12 cups cake pan with butter or spray. Make cake mix as directed on box, using the mixture of whites.2Divide of water, oil and egg among 3 small bowls. Add a few drops of yellow food color to 1 Bowl; mix well. Add the Red food coloring to second cup for rose. Add red and blue to third Bowl to make purple. Pour half of the yellow cake. The half of the rose pour carefully over the yellow mixture. Carefully pour the half of the purple on pink dough. Repeat the layers (not to mix colors). 3Bake as indicated in the box until you insert in the center of a stick, comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; Turn out on rack to cool. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Place the cake in the service plate.4Divide frosting among 3 small bowls for microwave. 1 Bowl on high in microwave about 5 to 10 seconds; Add a few drops yellow food color and stir until frosting is smooth enough as a drizzle. With a spoon, drizzle yellow frosting forward and backward on the cake in the striped pattern until frosting all used (some allow frosting to drip onto plate in the middle of the cake, if desired). Another bowl of microwave freeze; Add the color red and blue to make purple. Drizzle the glaze over the cake in the same banding pattern. Repeat with the last bowl, adding red food to make the icing pink. Decorate cake with coconut sprinkles.5Place in resealable food storage plastic bag; Add a few drops of green food color. Seal bag and mix until coconut is evenly tinted. Sprinkle coconut on serving around the cake and the Center for "Grass of Easter."

Recipe taken from this site http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/rainbow-ring-easter-basket-cake/5749bd11-1d96-4f20-b8ec-5df06508fca4

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