Inchworm Cake Recipe

Ingredients

1

                        box (15.25 oz) Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ Yellow Cake Mix (or your favorite flavor)

Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box

8

drops green food color

1 1/2

                        tubs (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Vanilla Frosting

Tray or cardboard (19x14 inches), covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil

5

M&M’s® chocolate candies

2

vanilla wafer cookies

2

small pretzel sticks

24

gumdrops

Preparation

Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Make, bake and cool cake as directed on box for 12-cup fluted tube cake pan.

Cut cake as shown in diagram. (See link below for diagram.) Freeze pieces uncovered 1 hour for easier frosting. Stir food color into frosting. Arrange cake pieces on tray to form inchworm. Frost cake, attaching pieces with frosting.

Attach one M&M’s™ chocolate candy to each vanilla wafer with frosting; attach to end of cake for eyes. Press 3 candies into frosting for mouth. Gently push 1 pretzel stick into flat end of gumdrop; repeat. Insert pretzels stick into cake for antennae. Arrange remaining gumdrops along edge for feet. Store loosely covered.

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