Happy Birthday Cell Phone Cake
This recipe makes 15 servings with 331 calories, 9g of protein, and 17g of fat each. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It will be a hit at your Birthday event. Head to the store and pick up cake mix, marshmallow flowers, candy straw, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes. It is a good option if you're following a dairy free diet.
Instructions
Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Spray bottom only of 13x9-inch pan with baking spray with flour. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
Cut 1 1/4-inch strip from each long side of cake. Trim each corner of cake to round off, making cell phone shape. (Discard pieces trimmed from cake or reserve for another use.)
Place cake on tray. Freeze 1 hour.
Divide 1 container of white frosting in half (about 3/4 cup each). Stir food color into half of frosting to tint pink.
Spread pink frosting over bottom half of cake.
Spread white frosting over top half of cake.
From 1/2 container of frosting, reserve about 2 tablespoons white frosting. Tint about 1/4 cup of the frosting pink. Onto center of white-frosted half of cake, spread some of the pink frosting in square shape for message screen.
Place remaining pink frosting in decorating bag with writing tip. Pipe pink frosting along edge of white-frosted cake. Arrange gum on cake for number buttons; pipe on numbers with pink frosting.
With reserved white frosting, pipe desired message on message screen.
Add marshmallow flowers and licorice candies.
Add candy straw for antenna. Store loosely covered.