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Flip-Flops Cake

Flip-flopping on what to serve for dessert? Create the talk of the dessert table with delicious colorful "sandals." Print out this template and use it as a guide to cutting and assembling your flip-flops.
Prep Time: 45 min
Total Time: 2 hours 30 min
Makes: 15 servings
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How-To Make Flip-Flops Cake

Flip-flopping on what to serve for dessert? Create the talk of the dessert table with delicious colorful "sandals." Print out this template and use it as a guide to cutting and assembling your flip-flops.

1box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® yellow cake mix
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
Tray or cardboard, covered with foil
2containers Betty Crocker® Whipped vanilla frosting
Assorted food colors
About 40 small round candy-coated fruit-flavored chewy candies
Assorted colors Betty Crocker® decorating icing (in 4.25-oz tubes) or Betty Crocker® Easy Flow decorating icing (in 6.4-oz cans)
1roll Betty Crocker® Fruit by the Foot® Green Apple Wave® chewy fruit snack (from 4.5-oz box)
2edible pansy or silk daisy flowers
1.Heat oven to 350°(325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Make cake as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan. Cool 15 minutes. Run knife around sides of pan to loosen cake; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
2.Cut cake lengthwise in half. Continue cutting each piece to form flip-flop shape as shown in diagram. Place pieces on tray. Freeze pieces uncovered about 1 hour for easier frosting if desired.
3.In small bowl, mix 1 cup frosting with food color to make desired color; frost sides of each flip-flop. In another small bowl, mix 1 cup frosting with second food color to make desired color; frost top of each flip-flop. Place small candies around side edge of each flip-flop to look like jewels. Decorate top of each flip-flop with decorating icing. Cut two 6-inch pieces from fruit roll; cut pieces lengthwise in half. Arrange on flip-flops for straps. Just before serving, top with flowers. Store loosely covered.
High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Follow High Altitude directions on cake mix box.
Flip-Flops Cake
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Use your favorite flavor Betty Crocker cake mix instead of the yellow.
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You can use paste food color to get more intense colors without diluting the frosting.
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Cake will be easier to frost if you freeze the cut pieces on a cookie sheet 30 minutes to 1 hour before frosting.
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Nutrition Information:

1 Serving: Calories 480 (Calories from Fat 180); Total Fat 20g (Saturated Fat 6g, Trans Fat 4g); Cholesterol 40mg; Sodium 300mg; Total Carbohydrate 72g (Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars 56g); Protein 2Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%; Vitamin C 6%; Calcium 6%; Iron 4Exchanges: 1/2 Starch; 4 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Vegetable; 4 Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 5 
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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