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By Betty Crocker Kitchens
Updated Feb 23, 2010
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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
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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

  • Step 
    1
    Heat 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.
  • Step 
    2
    Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely on cooling rack, about 45 minutes.
  • Step 
    3
    Spread 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.
  • Step 
    4
    With 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
3
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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