Reviews & Comments

I made this for my son's 1st birthday and got loads of positive comments. It's one of the easier Betty Crocker designs I've tackled thus far!

I had a problem. my 3 year old wanted to use them as REAL legos!

Great idea! Used a homemade chocolate cake since that's what my son requested but it worked just as well. Also, froze the cakes and marshmallows before frosting and that really helped. I ended up just placing the marshmallows on the cake and frosting them...to me it was easier than trying to hold onto frozen marshmallows with a fork. Kids loved it and that's what counts!

This is the first time I have made a decorated cake and it did require some patience. The edges where the cake is cut are difficult to ice, especially since once the cake was cut I did not have room in the freezer for it so it had to chill in the fridge which was probably not as effective. As for the crumb layer--I found that when the crumbs were sticking to the knife badly it worked best to wipe the knife clean and start with fresh icing. I had plenty of icing to work with so don't worry about using up too much when scraping off the knife like this. I ended up needing whole tubes of Betty Crocker gel color for the blue and yellow. For the red I used a whole tube of gel color plus some liquid food coloring I had as well because it didn't seem red enough with just the one tube. The cake fed 24 people--one square piece with marshmallow half each. We all loved it and I am looking forward to gaining more cake-making experience.