Knight's Castle Cake

 

1

box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® yellow cake mix

Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box

Blue food color

1

container Betty Crocker® Whipped fluffy white frosting

1/2

cup packed brown sugar

4

gumdrops

4

Betty Crocker® Fruit by the Foot® chewy fruit-flavored snacks (from variety pack of different colors)

1/4

cup multicolored small goldfish-shaped crackers

Rock candy, if desired

1/2

bar milk chocolate candy, with or without almonds, if desired

• 1 Heat oven to 325°F. Generously grease Nordic Ware® Castle Bundt® cake pan with shortening and lightly flour, or spray pan with baking spray with flour.
• 2 Make cake batter as directed on box. Pour batter into pan.
• 3 Bake 33 to 43 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Using a long serrated knife, trim cake even with top of pan, if necessary. Turn pan upside down onto cooling rack; remove pan. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• 4 Place cake on 12- to 15-inch serving plate, tray or piece of cardboard covered with foil. Stir 8 to 10 drops blue food color into frosting. Spread frosting around base of cake to look like water. Sprinkle brown sugar around frosting on plate to look like sand.
• 5 Place gumdrops on top of each tower. Cut long flag-shaped pieces out of fruit snack with sharp knife or kitchen scissors. Roll fruit snack around 4 toothpicks to make flags; insert toothpicks into gumdrops. Arrange crackers and rock candy in frosting, and add chocolate bar, upside down, for drawbridge as shown. Store loosely covered.