Birthday Clown Cake

Name: Birthday Clown Cake
Prep time: 1 h 40 min
Cook time: 1 h 40 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 40
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters BAKERS ANGEL FLAKE Coconut, divided; 40 servings blue, yellow and red food colorings; 1 small decorations: 30 gumdrops, 2 OREO Cookies, 1 JET-PUFFED Marshmallow, round candies, 9 square fruit chews, 2 jelly candies, 1 chewy fruit snacks, 2 mini peanut butter creme-filled sandwich cookies, 2 jelly candies; 227 grams tub COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed; 1 package (2-layer size) yellow cake mix

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Birthday Clown Cake a try. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 77 calories, 1g of protein, and 2g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 40. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes. It will be a hit at your Birthday event. If you have cake mix, cool whip whipped topping, decorations: gumdrops, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Prepare cake batter as directed on package; pour evenly into 1 each 9-inch round and square pan.

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Frying Pan

Bake cakes as directed on package. Cool completely.

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Oven

Remove cakes from pans.

Place round cake on cutting board; trim off 1-inch piece from top of cake.

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Cutting Board

Cut trimmed piece crosswise in half; set aside.

Cut square layer into 3 triangles, starting at center of one side and cutting to bottom left corner of cake layer. Repeat the cut with other side of cake.

Assemble cake pieces to resemble a clown's head by placing round cake layer near top of large board or platter, with straight edge of cake at top of board.

Place middle cake triangle at top of round cake layer for the hat, and small pieces that were cut from top of round layer at base of the hat for the hair. Arrange remaining 2 triangles at base of the head, with pointed ends together, to resemble a bow tie.

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Base

Tint 1/2 cup coconut with a few drops blue food coloring. (See tip for how to tint coconut.) Repeat with 1/2 cup of the remaining coconut and yellow food coloring; tint remaining coconut with red food coloring.

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Red Food Color

Coconut

Use small amount of remaining COOL WHIP to attach cake pieces to each other on board. Frost cake with remaining COOL WHIP.

Sprinkle hat with blue coconut, cake just under the hat with red coconut (for the hair), and bow tie with yellow coconut. Decorate with remaining ingredients as shown in photo.

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Coconut