Big Mac Cake
List of Ingredients
This recipe looks long and involved but it's really worth the trouble. It comes out looking just like a hamburger!
3 boxes (16 ounces each) poundcake mix
6 plain, fat, round cookies(each 31/2-4 inches in diameter)
2 cans ready-to-spread vanilla frosting
red and yellow paste food color
2 brown M&M candies
2 large marshmallows
1/4 cup granulated sugar
20 or more spearmint jelly-candy leaves
1 can(16 ounces) ready-to-spread milk chocolate frosting
1 can (16ounces) ready-to-spread chocolate fudgefrosting
1 box(2 1/2 ounces) chocolate-snap cookies(teddy grahams are good for this) coarsely crushed
about 30 pine nuts(pignoli)Recipe
*BUNS AND MEAT*
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two 8-inch layer cake pans and one 2 1/2-3 quart metal or ovenproof glass mixing bowl with a rounded bottom.Prepare 1 double batch cake batter as directed on package, using 2 packages cake mix. Then prepare 1 single batch. Fill each layer-cake pan 2/3 full. Scrape remaining batter into prepared bowl. Bake pans 30-35 minutes and bowl 55-60 minutes or till toothpick comes out clean. Cool on wire racks and let cool completely.
*TOMATO SLICES*
Place plain cookies on wire rack set over waxed paper. Put 1/2 cup vanilla frosting in a small saucepan. Stir over low heat till melted and smooth. Remove from heat and stir in red food color(and a bit of yellow if needed)until frosting is tomato-colored. Brush or spoon on top and sides of cookies. Let stand at least 30 minutes till firm to the touch.
*MUSTARD*
Spoon another 1/2 cup vanilla frosting into a small bowl. Stir in yellow food coloring till mustard-colored. Cover with plastic wrap to prevent drying.
*EYES*
Use a dot of vanilla frosting to glue M&M "pupils" on marshmallows.
*LETTUCE*
Sprinkle granulated sugar on work surface. Working with 1 at a time, place spearmint leaf on the sugar and roll with a rolling pin till flattened and edges are jagged.
Put remaining vanilla frosting in a medium sized bowl. Stir milk-chocolate frosting and red and yellow food color, a little at a time, till frosting is the color of a burger bun. Place 1 cake layer on serving plate. Cover with frosting. Arrange lettuce on top and around edges.
Place remaining cake layer on waxed paper. Cover with chocolate-fudge frosting. Press crushed chocolate cookies into frosting to simulate a hamburger patty texture. Using pancake turners, lift patty onto "lettuce"-lined bun.
Spoon "mustard" about 1 inch from edge of burger, letting some run down sides. Top with "tomato slices".
Trim "hump" (where cake has risen) off bowl cake. Place cake trimmed side down(and the bottom of the bowl will be the top of the bun) on waxed paper and frost with remaining bun-colored frosting. Lift onto tomato-topped burger. Glue "eyes" in position with frosting. Press pine nuts in place on top to look like sesame seeds.
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