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Big Mac Cake




Source of Recipe


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List of Ingredients




3 Boxes pound cake -- mix
2 Cans vanilla frosting
1 Can chocolate frosting -- milk chocolate
1 Can chocolate fudge frosting
food coloring -- red and yellow*
1 Box chocolate snap cookies -- 2 -1/2 oz
2 Large marshmallows
M&ms plain chocolate candy
1/4 Cup sugar
6 plain cookies -- 3-4 inches
spearmint jelly candy leaves


Recipe



*use paste food coloring. Heat oven to 350.
Grease 2 8-inch pans and one 2 1/2-3 quart metal or glass mixing bowl with rounded bottom.
Prepare 1 double batch cake batter as box directs.
Then prepare 1 single batch.
Fill cake pans 2/3 full. Put the rest in the prepared bowl.
Bake pans 30-35 minutes; bowl 55-60 minutes.
Cool completely.

Tomato slices: place plain cookies on wire rack.
Set over waxed paper.
Put 1/2 cup vanilla frosting in a small saucepan over low heat.
Remove from heat and stir in red food coloring and a tiny bit of yellow if needed.
Use enought to make frosting tomato colored. Frost cookies and let stand until firm.

Mustard: Put 1/2 cup vanilla frosting in small bowl. Stir
in yellow color until mustard colored. Cover to prevent drying.

Eyes: Use a dot of vanilla frosting to glue 2 M&M's to marshmallows.

Lettuce: sprinkle work surface with sugar.
Using rolling pin, roll out spearmint candy leaves until flattened.

Put remaining vanilla frosting in a medium bowl.
Ad milk chocolate frosting.
Add red and yellow food coloring a little at a time, until frosting is the color of a hamburger 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.
Using a pancake turner, lift "patty" onto lettuce lined bun.
Spoon "mustard" about 1 inch from edges, letting some run down sides.
Top with "tomato" slices.

Trim hump (where cake has risen) off of bowl cake.
Place trimmed side down on waxed paper and frost with remaining bun colored frosting.
Lift onto the other layers. Glue the "eyes" in place with frosting.

This is really a great-looking cake and will be perfect for young children on their birthdays
or any day just for a special treat.

It is best to use pound cake mixes called for because regular cake mixes are too soft and tend to fall
apart.