Big Mac Cake Recipe - cake mix

Method

• *Use paste food coloring.
• Recipe is for a cake which, when decorated, looks like a Big Mac hamburger.
• Kids love this for their birthday.
• It isn't really hard to make; just be sure you have all the ingredients before you begin.
• Heat oven to 350.
• Grease 2 8-inch pans and one 2 1/2-3 qt metal or possibly glass mixing bowl with rounded bottom.
• Prepare 1 double batch cake batter as box directs.
• Then prepare 1 single batch.
• Fill cake pans 2/3 full.
• Put the rest in the prepared bowl.
• Bake pans 30-35 min; bowl 55-60 min.
• Cold completely.
• Tomato slices: place plain cookies on wire rack.
• Set over waxed paper.
• Put 1/2 c. vanilla frosting in a small saucepan over low heat.
• Remove from heat and stir in red food coloring and a tiny bit of yellow if needed.
• Use sufficient to make frosting tomato colored.
• Frost cookies and let stand till hard.
• Mustard: Put 1/2 c. vanilla frosting in small bowl.
• Stir in yellow color till mustard colored.
• Cover to prevent drying.
• Eyes: Use a dot of vanilla frosting to glue 2 M&M's to marshmallows.
• Lettuce: sprinkle work surface with sugar.
• Using rolling pin, roll out spearmint candy leaves till flattened.
• Put remaining vanilla frosting in a medium bowl.
• Add in lowfat milk chocolate frosting.
• Add in red and yellow food coloring a little at a time, till frosting is the color of a hamburger bun.
• Place 1 cake layer on serving plate.
• Cover with frosting.
• Arrange "lettuce" on top and around edges.
• Place remaining cake layer on waxed paper.
• Cover with chocolate fudge frosting.
• Press crushed chocolate cookies into frosting to simulate a hamburger patty.
• Using a pancake turner, lift "patty" onto lettuce lined bun.
• Spoon "mustard" about 1 inch from edges, letting some run down sides.
• Top with "tomato" slices.
• Trim hump (where cake has risen) off of bowl cake.
• Place trimmed side down on waxed paper and frost with remaining bun colored frosting.
• Lift onto the other layers.
• Glue the
• "eyes" in place with frosting.
• This is really a great-looking cake and will be perfect for young children on their birthdays or possibly any day just for a special treat.
• It is best to use lb.
• cake mixes called for because regular cake mixes are too soft and tend to fall apart.