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Pirate Cake

Looking for a treasure of a cake to please your pirate? Cake mix, ready-to-spread frosting and candies make it super easy. Print out this template and use it as a guide to cutting and assembling your pirate.
Prep Time: 30 min
Total Time: 3 hours 10 min
Makes: 12 servings
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How-To Make Pirate Cake

Looking for a treasure of a cake to please your pirate? Cake mix, ready-to-spread frosting and candies make it super easy. Print out this template and use it as a guide to cutting and assembling your pirate.

1box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® cake mix (any flavor)
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
Tray or cardboard, 15x12 inches, covered
2/3cup Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy chocolate frosting (from 1-lb container)
1container (1 lb) Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting
1chocolate-covered mint patty
1large marshmallow, cut in half
1blue gum ball or candy-coated chocolate candy
1yellow ring-shaped hard candy
1roll Betty Crocker® Fruit by the Foot® strawberry or other red chewy fruit snack (from 4.5-oz box)
1black licorice rope
Square-shaped candy-coated gum
Betty Crocker® chocolate decors
1.Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Grease bottoms and sides of 1 (8-inch) and 1 (9-inch) round cake pan with shortening or cooking spray. Make cake as directed on box, using water, oil and eggs. Pour into pans.
2.Bake as directed on box. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
3.Use serrated knife to cut 9-inch cake in half and cut hat as shown in diagram. Remaining half of 9-inch cake will form body of pirate. Cut 8-inch cake as directed in diagram. On tray, place cake pieces. Cut ears and nose from small pieces of cake; attach to cake with small amount of frosting. Cover; freeze 1 hour or until firm.
4.Reserve 2 teaspoons chocolate frosting. Frost hat with remaining chocolate frosting. Mix 2/3 cup of the vanilla frosting with reserved chocolate frosting. With tinted vanilla frosting, frost head, ears and nose of pirate. Add mint patty for eye patch, marshmallow slice and gum ball for eye, and ring-shaped candy for earring.
5.Frost body with remaining vanilla frosting. Cut fruit snack into shapes for shirt stripes, mouth and strap for eye patch; place on cake. Cut licorice to fit hat. Add gum for teeth and chocolate decors for whiskers. Store loosely covered at room temperature.
High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Follow High Altitude cake mix directions on box for 8-inch and 9-inch pans.
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Cake pieces will be easier to handle if you freeze them on a cookie sheet for 30 minutes to an hour before frosting.
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Nutrition Information:

1 Serving Frosted Cake (Undecorated): Calories 430 (Calories from Fat 170); Total Fat 19g (Saturated Fat 5g, Trans Fat 3 1/2g); Cholesterol 55mg; Sodium 370mg; Total Carbohydrate 62g (Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars 42g); Protein 3Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%; Vitamin C 0%; Calcium 6%; Iron 6Exchanges: 1 Starch; 3 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Vegetable; 3 1/2 Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 4 
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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