3 Boxes pound cake mix
2 cn Vanilla frosting
1 cn Chocolate frosting, milk
-chocolate
1 cn Chocolate fudge frosting
Food coloring — red and
-yellow*
1 Box chcolate snap cookies —
-2 1/2 oz
2 lg Marshmallows
M&Ms plain chocolate candy
1/4 c Sugar
6 Plain cookies — 3-4 inches
Spearmint jelly candy
-leaves
*use paste food coloring.
Recipe is for a cake that, when decorated, looks like a Big Mac
hamburger. Kids love this for their birthday. It isn’t really hard to
make; just be sure you have all the ingredients before you begin.
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 enough
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. Add 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.
Jo Anne Merrill, recipe from personal files.
Yields
1 Servings