Inchworm Cake
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Updated Oct 4, 2022
Inch your way into a fun celebration with an easy-to-make and fun-to-eat cake!
Inchworm Cake
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- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 2 hr 28 min
- Servings 16
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
- 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ Yellow Cake Mix (or your favorite flavor)
- Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
- 8 drops green food color
- 1 1/2 tubs (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Vanilla Frosting
- Tray or cardboard (19x14 inches), covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil
- 5 M&M's® chocolate candies
- 2 vanilla wafer cookies
- 2 small pretzel sticks
- 24 gumdrops
Diagram/Template Download
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Make, bake and cool cake as directed on box for 12-cup fluted tube cake pan.
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Step2Cut cake as shown in diagram. (See link below for diagram.) Freeze pieces uncovered 1 hour for easier frosting. Stir food color into frosting. Arrange cake pieces on tray to form inchworm. Frost cake, attaching pieces with frosting.
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Step3Attach one M&M's™ chocolate candy to each vanilla wafer with frosting; attach to end of cake for eyes. Press 3 candies into frosting for mouth. Gently push 1 pretzel stick into flat end of gumdrop; repeat. Insert pretzels stick into cake for antennae. Arrange remaining gumdrops along edge for feet. Store loosely covered.
Nutrition
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