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Updated Oct 11, 2022
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Set sail on a journey to a delicious dessert. Cut and frost an ordinary 13x9-inch cake into a dessert fit for a captain.

Sailboat Cake

  • Prep Time 40 min
  • Total 3 hr 30 min
  • Servings 14
  • Ingredients 8
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Ingredients

  • 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ Yellow Cake Mix
  • Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
  • 2 tubs (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Vanilla Frosting
  • Yellow or brown food color
  • Tray or cardboard (20x18 inches), covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil
  • 2 pull-and-peel cherry licorice twists (from 14-oz package)
  • 1 roll Betty Crocker™ Fruit Roll-Ups® chewy fruit snack (from 5-oz box)
  • Ring-shaped hard candies and assorted candies for decorating

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Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Grease bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan or spray with baking spray with flour. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Refrigerate or freeze cake about 1 hour or until firm.
  • Step 
    2
    Cut cake as shown in diagram. (See link below for diagram.) Arrange pieces to form sailboat on tray. Tint 1 1/3 cups frosting with yellow or brown food color for hull. Spread a thin layer of white frosting over top and sides of sails, and a thin layer of tinted frosting over top and sides of hull, to seal in crumbs. Refrigerate or freeze cake 30 to 60 minutes to set frosting.
  • Step 
    3
    Frost entire cake with remaining frosting. Cut licorice pieces to desired length for the mast; place near the edge of the longest sail. To create the top flag, spread a thin layer of frosting on a small piece of aluminum foil. Unroll and remove wrapper from fruit snack roll; press onto frosting-coated foil. Using kitchen scissors, cut into flag shape. Secure flag to mast with a small amount of frosting. Use candy for portholes, or decorate as desired. Store loosely covered.

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