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Panda Bear Cake

Party time! Create a sweet bear to celebrate a birthday or special occasion. Print out this template and use it as a guide to cutting and assembling your panda bear.
Prep Time: 1 hour 30 min
Total Time: 4 hours 30 min
Makes: 20 servings
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How-To Make Panda Bear Cake

Party time! Create a sweet bear to celebrate a birthday or special occasion. Print out this template and use it as a guide to cutting and assembling your panda bear.
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2boxes Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® devil’s food or yellow cake mix
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix boxes
1 1/2containers (1 lb each) Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy chocolate frosting
Black food color
1large marshmallow
2small round chocolate-covered creamy mints
Tray or cardboard (20x18 inches), covered with waxed paper or foil
1 1/2containers (1 lb each) Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting
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Total Time: 20 min
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1.Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Make and bake 1 cake mix as directed on box for 2 (8-inch) round pans, using water, oil and eggs. Make and bake second cake as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan. Cool cakes in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Refrigerate or freeze cakes 1 hour until firm.
2.Meanwhile, in medium bowl, mix 1 container plus 1 cup chocolate frosting with food color to make black frosting. Cut marshmallow in half crosswise. For eyes, attach 1 mint to each marshmallow slice with frosting; set aside.
3.Using serrated knife, cut off top rounded portion of each cake to level surface. Turn cakes cut sides down. Cut cakes as shown in template. Place cake pieces on tray as directed in template, attaching to tray and each other with small amount of frosting.
4.To “crumb-coat” cake, spread thin layer of vanilla frosting over head and thin layer of black frosting over ears, body and paws to seal in crumbs. Refrigerate or freeze cake 30 to 60 minutes.
5.Frost head with some of remaining vanilla frosting. Frost rest of cake with some of remaining black frosting. To pipe on panda features, spoon vanilla and black frostings into separate resealable food-storage plastic freezer bags and cut small tip off 1 bottom corner of each bag.
6.Pipe or spread vanilla frosting on body to create chest. Pipe or spread black frosting on head for patches around eyes. Place marshmallow eyes on patches. Pipe or spread black frosting on snout for nose and mouth. Pipe or spread vanilla frosting on back paws to create paw prints. Pipe outline around body and front legs with black frosting. Fill in outline with additional black frosting so front legs have a thicker layer of frosting than white chest. Using metal spatula, create a different texture on the body and front legs to further define legs from chest and back paws.
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Special Touch
Make it your way. This bear can easily be frosted to create any type of bear. Frost with different shades of brown to create a cuddly brown bear. For a polar bear, frost white, then accent with grays and black.
How-To
To pipe frosting, simply place frosting in a resealable plastic freezer bag and cut off a small tip from one corner. Squeeze bag to pipe frosting on cake. Piping allows for greater control and placement of frosting.
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Nutrition Information:

1 Serving (Cake and Frosting): Calories 450 (Calories from Fat 180); Total Fat 20g (Saturated Fat 5g, Trans Fat 2g); Cholesterol 65mg; Sodium 560mg; Total Carbohydrate 64g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 40g); Protein 4Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%; Vitamin C 0%; Calcium 6%; Iron 15Exchanges: 1 Starch; 3 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Vegetable; 4 Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 4 
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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