With some ingenuity and not much time at all, you can make canned frosting taste more like it's homemade by adding this one ...

Coconut can be added to the cake batter itself when you add ... You can also add a little more green color to the frosting with a few drops of green food coloring.

Use a toothpick to carefully trace around it and then remove the paper from the cake. Tint about a 1/2 cup of the remaining frosting black, a very small amount red, and the rest with a green/black ...

Then sprinkle shredded coconut on top of the frosting so that it forms a “cloud” of coconut on top of the cupcake. Pat down and cover the frosting with shredded coconut.