Building Blocks Cakes

Name: Building Blocks Cakes
Prep time: 4 h 10 min
Cook time: 4 h 10 min
Total time: 4 h 10 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 12 servings Betty Crocker® red, yellow and blue gel food colors; 12 larges marshmallows, cut in half crosswise; 2 containers Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting; 1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® yellow cake mix

Building Blocks Cakes is a dairy free dessert. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains around 2g of protein, 1g of fat, and a total of 182 calories. This recipe serves 12. Head to the store and pick up gel food colors, marshmallows, rich & creamy vanilla frosting, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 4 hours and 10 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Grease or spray bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan.

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Oven

Frying Pan

Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Refrigerate or freeze cake about 1 hour or until firm.

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Cake Mix

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Wire Rack

Oven

Frying Pan

Meanwhile, in small bowl for each color, tint 1 cup frosting red, 1 cup frosting yellow and 2/3 cup frosting blue with food colors. Leave remaining frosting white.

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Frosting

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Bowl

Using serrated knife, cut rounded dome from top of cake to make flat surface; place cake cut side down.

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Serrated Knife

Cut cake crosswise into thirds.

Cut one of the thirds in half crosswise to make 2 squares.

Place cake pieces on tray.

To seal in crumbs, frost top and sides of 1 square cake with thin layer of blue frosting and 1 square cake with thin layer of white frosting. Frost 1 rectangular cake with thin layer of yellow frosting and 1 rectangular cake with thin layer of red frosting. Refrigerate or freeze 30 to 60 minutes to set frosting.

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Frosting

Add final coat of frosting to each cake. Frost 4 marshmallow halves with blue frosting; place in square design on blue cake. Frost 4 marshmallow halves with white frosting; place in square design on white cake. Frost 8 marshmallow halves with yellow frosting; place on yellow cake. Frost 8 marshmallow halves with red frosting; place on red cake. Store loosely covered.

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Marshmallows