Bunny Cake

Ingredients

• 1 two layer  cake mix
• Choose your favorite flavor.
• 3 cups  coconut flakes
• 1 can  vanilla frosting
• red food coloring
• 30  spiced gum drops
• 4 strings  red licorice

Instructions

1. Heat oven and bake cake in two 9-inch round baking pans as directed on cake package.
2. When cooled, place one whole 9-inch cake layer on lower half of serving tray, forming the bunny head. Cut 2 convex shaped ears from each side of the second layer, leaving a bow-tie shape between the two cuts. Place ears at each side of the top of the head. Place concave shaped piece at the bottom of the head for a bow-tie. Frost entire bunny cake.
3. Use red food coloring to make a couple tablespoons of frosting pink. Use pink frosting in center of ears. Use red food coloring to make a couple tablespoons of coconut pink. Use pink coconut in center of ears. Pat remaining white coconut evenly over the top and sides of face and ears.
4. Decorate the bunny face using spiced gum drops for eyes and nose. Use licorice strings for whiskers, eybrows and mouth. Use remaining spiced gum drops to make a polka-dotted bow.