Turn a basic cake mix, prepared frosting, and a handful of candies into a special tribute to your lineage.
Family Tree Cake
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 1 hr 35 min
- Servings 20
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
- 1 box (1 lb 2.25 oz) yellow cake mix with pudding
- 1 1/4 cups water
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 container (1 lb) vanilla ready-to-spread frosting
- 1/2 cup chocolate ready-to-spread frosting (from 1-lb container)
- 6 spearmint candy leaves, cut in half (from 13-oz package)
- 8 small red gumdrops, cut in half
- Green paper leaves with guest names
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom only of 15x10x1-inch pan with shortening. Make cake mix as directed on box using water, oil and eggs. Spread batter in pan.
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Step2Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely on cooling rack, about 45 minutes.
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Step3Spread vanilla frosting on top of cake. With toothpick, draw tree trunk on bottom 1/3 of cake. With chocolate frosting, fill in trunk and branches, using tines of fork to create bark on tree. Place candy leaves over top 2/3 of cake, leaving space between leaves.
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Step4With sharp knife, cut small slit in side of each gumdrop half. Insert one end of paper leaf in slit; place on cake.
Nutrition
290
Calories
11g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
45g
Total Carbohydrate
34g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 290
- Calories from Fat
- 100
- Total Fat
- 11g
- 18%
- Saturated Fat
- 6g
- 30%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 35mg
- 11%
- Sodium
- 180mg
- 8%
- Potassium
- 35mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 45g
- 15%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 34g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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