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Betty Crocker Kitchens
Updated Oct 18, 2022
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Have a wild party! Invite an adorable panda made easily with cake mix and ready-to-spread frosting.

Panda Cake

  • Prep Time 20 min
  • Total 2 hr 8 min
  • Servings 16
  • Ingredients 12
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Ingredients

  • 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ Devil's Food Cake Mix (or your favorite flavor)
  • Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
  • Tray or cardboard (16x10 inches), covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil
  • 1 1/2 tubs (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Vanilla Frosting
  • 1/2 cup flaked coconut
  • 8 chocolate wafer cookies, about 2 inches in diameter
  • 1 large marshmallow
  • 2 chocolate-covered candies
  • 1 small black or red gumdrop
  • Black shoestring licorice
  • 1/3 cup flaked coconut
  • 1 teaspoon unsweetened baking cocoa

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Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Grease bottoms only of one 8-inch round pan and one 9-inch round pan. Make cake batter as directed on box. Pour into pans.
  • Step 
    2
    Bake and cool as directed on box. Cut 9-inch round as shown in diagram; arrange pieces on tray to make panda. (See link below for diagram.)
  • Step 
    3
    Frost cake, attaching pieces with small amount of frosting. Sprinkle body with 1/2 cup flaked coconut, pressing gently to stick. Press 2 cookies into top of head at 45-degree angle for ears. Place 2 cookies for background of eyes and 4 on body for paws, placing bottom 2 cookies at 45-degree angle on bottom edge of cake.
  • Step 
    4
    Cut marshmallow crosswise in half; place each half on a cookie for eyes. Place chocolate candies on marshmallow halves for pupils; fasten with small dab of frosting if necessary. Use small gumdrop for nose and shoestring licorice for mouth and outline of legs. Toss 1/3 cup coconut and the cocoa; carefully sprinkle within outlines of legs and on bottom portion of body. Store loosely covered.

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