Recipe - Gift Cake

1 pack (2layer) yellow cake mix
1 pack (4serving) jello vanilla
flavor instant pudding
1 1/3 cup Water
4 Eggs
One fourth cup Oil
FROSTING:
1 cup Strawberry preserves
3 One half cup Thawed Cool WHip whipped
topping
2 2/3 cup Coconut
One half teaspoon Real food coloring

Combine cake mix, pudding mix, water, eggs and oil in large mixing bowl.
Blend then beat at medium speed of electric mixer for 4 minutes. Stir in 1
One half cups coconut. Pour into greased and floured 13 x 9 inch cake pan. BAke
at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until cake begins to pull away from sides.
Cool in pan for 15 minutes. Remove from pan and finish cooling on rack. Cut
in half to make two 6 x 8 inch layers. Fill with preserves and 1 cup of the
topping; frost with remaining topping. Mark "ribbon" with wooden picks.
Tint 2/3 cup of the coconut with food coloring and 1 teaspoon water; place
in "ribbon" area; edge with gumdrop strips, if desired. Sprinkle with
remaining coconut over rest of cake. Garnish with gumdrop bow of flattened
gumdrops with rolling pin on pastry board.

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