First Birthday Lion Cake

Name: First Birthday Lion Cake
Prep time: 1 h 55 min
Cook time: 1 h 55 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters mashed very ripe bananas (2 medium); 8 servings Brown decorating gel; 2 brown candy coated pieces; 177 milliliters cereal; 227 grams package cream cheese, softened; 3 eggs; 8 servings Orange gel or paste food color; 8 servings Golden yellow gel or paste food color; 6 pretzel sticks; 170 grams container Yoplait® Original yogurt French vanilla; 118 milliliters vegetable oil; 59 milliliters water; 1 box Betty Super Moist® yellow cake mix

This recipe serves 8. One serving contains 706 calories, 11g of protein, and 28g of fat. It will be a hit at your Birthday event. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 55 minutes. A mixture of bananas, paste food color, paste food color, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350F (325F for dark or nonstick pans). Grease with shortening or cooking spray bottom only of 1 (6-inch) round cake pan and place paper baking cups in 16 regular-size muffin cups.

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Cooking Spray

Shortening

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Muffin Liners

Cake Form

Oven

In large bowl, beat cake mix, bananas, oil, water and eggs with electric mixer on low speed. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally until smooth.

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Cake Mix

Banana

Water

Egg

Cooking Oil

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Place 1 3/4 cups batter in 6-inch round pan. Spoon remaining batter into 16 lined muffin cups.

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Muffin Liners

Frying Pan

Bake round cake 35 to 40 minutes and cupcakes 18 to 23 minutes or until toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.

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Cupcakes

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Wire Rack

Toothpicks

Oven

In small bowl, beat cream cheese and yogurt on medium speed with electric mixer until creamy and smooth. Stir in yellow food color until mixture is desired color.

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Yellow Food Color

Cream Cheese

Yogurt

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Place 3 tablespoons of yellow frosting in small bowl; add orange food color to get desired orange color.

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Orange Food Color

Frosting

Orange

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Bowl

To frost and decorate cake, slice 6-inch round cake horizontally to remove rounded top.

Place cake cut side down on plate. Use yellow frosting to frost top and sides of cake. Use orange frosting to make muzzle of lion.

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Frosting

Orange

Place cereal around top edges of cake to form the lion's mane.

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Cereal

Add brown candy coated pieces for eyes. Insert pretzel sticks into cake near muzzle for whiskers. Use brown decorating gel to make mouth, nose and whisker spots on the lion face. Use remaining frosting to frost cupcakes. If desired, use cereal to decorate the cupcakes. Store cake and cupcakes in refrigerator.

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Decorating Gel

Pretzel Sticks