Do-it-Yourself Dad Cake

Name: Do-it-Yourself Dad Cake
Prep time: 1 h 55 min
Cook time: 1 h 55 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 15 brown mini candy-coated chocolate candies; 12 servings Tray or cardboard covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil; 1 Tbsp Betty Whipped chocolate frosting; 1 small (1-inch) chewy chocolate candy, unwrapped; 8 drops blue gel food color; 1 container Betty Whipped fluffy white frosting; 2 teaspoons brown candy sprinkles; 2 teaspoons blue candy sprinkles; 1 miniature creme-filled peanut butter sandwich cookie; 1 pretzel rod; 0 roll Betty Fruit Roll-Ups® strawberry chewy fruit snack (from 5-oz box); 1 black string licorice (4 inches); 1 sugar wafer; 1 box Betty yellow or white cake mix

The recipe Do-it-Yourself Dad Cake could satisfy your Mexican craving in about 1 hour and 55 minutes. One portion of this dish contains approximately 2g of protein, 9g of fat, and a total of 346 calories. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 12. If you have betty whipped chocolate frosting, string licorice, roll betty fruit roll-ups® strawberry chewy fruit snack, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Heat oven to 325F. Grease 1 1/2-quart ovenproof bowl (8 inches across top) with shortening; coat with flour (do not use cooking spray).

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Cooking Spray

Shortening

All Purpose Flour

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Bowl

Oven

Make cake batter as directed on box.

Pour batter into 1 1/2-quart bowl.

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Bowl

Bake 47 to 53 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes.

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Toothpicks

Oven

Remove cake from bowl; place rounded side up on cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. If necessary, cut off rounded top of cake.

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Wire Rack

Bowl

Divide white frosting between 2 small bowls.

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Frosting

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Bowl

Add blue food color to 1 bowl to make desired blue color for jeans.

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Blue Food Color

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Bowl

Place cake on tray cut side down; spread white frosting over half of cake (for Dad's t-shirt) and blue frosting over other half (for Dad's jeans), leaving a small area in between unfrosted (for Dad's back peeking out).

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Frosting

Spread

Carefully place individual blue and brown candy sprinkles along back of jeans for belt line and seams.

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Sprinkles

Candy

Place mini candy-coated chocolate candies on jeans to outline pocket. Carefully fold fruit snack to look like handkerchief, and press into frosting as if it were coming out of pocket.

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Candy

Frosting

Fruit

Microwave chewy chocolate candy on High 3 to 5 seconds, just until moldable. Firmly press broken end of pretzel rod into side of chewy candy to make hammer.

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Candy

Pretzels

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Microwave

Place on cake.

Spoon chocolate frosting into resealable food-storage plastic bag.

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Chocolate Frosting

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Ziploc Bags

Cut tiny tip from 1 corner of bag, and pipe lines on sugar wafer to look like ruler; place on cake.

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Sugar

Wafer

Wrap string licorice around center of peanut butter sandwich cookie, leaving 1 end sticking out to look like tape measure; place on cake. Store loosely covered.

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Peanut Butter

Licorice

Wrap

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Servings:

brown mini candy-coated chocolate candies 12servings

Tray or cardboard covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil 1Tbsp

Betty Whipped chocolate frosting 1small

(1-inch) chewy chocolate candy, unwrapped 8drops

blue gel food color 1container

Betty Whipped fluffy white frosting 2teaspoons

brown candy sprinkles 2teaspoons

blue candy sprinkles 1

miniature creme-filled peanut butter sandwich cookie 1

pretzel rod 0

roll Betty Fruit Roll-Ups® strawberry chewy fruit snack (from 5-oz box)1

black string licorice (4 inches)1

sugar wafer 1box

Betty yellow or white cake mix

Recommended wine: Pinot Noir, Riesling, Sparkling Rose

Mexican works really well with Pinot Noir, Riesling, and Sparkling rosé. Acidic white wines like riesling or low-tannin reds like pinot noir can work well with Mexican dishes. Sparkling rosé is a safe pairing too. The WindRacer Russian River Pinot Noir with a 4.7 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 60 dollars per bottle.