Poinsettia cake
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | Cherry cake mix * |
| 1 | small | Vanilla pudding mix; not instant * |
| ½ | cup | Water |
| ½ | cup | Cherry soda * |
| 4 | Eggs | |
| ½ | cup | Vegetable oil |
| 1 | can | Vanilla frosting |
| Yellow sugar | ||
| 14 | ounces | Holiday M&M\"s; red & green |
Directions
CAKE
DECORATIONS
Heat oven to 350~. Grease and flour 13x9" pan. Prepare cake by mixing cake mix with pudding. Add water, soda, oil and eggs. Beat for 2 minutes with electic mixer. Bake according to time given on cake box. Cool completely.
Frost top of cake; lightly score cake into 24 sections. Following diagram, fill in center area with red M&M's, leaving a circle in the center.
Sprinkle the center circle with yellow sugar. Fill in remainder of cake around poinsettia with green M&M's. The 14oz package contains enough pieces to make this design.
* I made this using a cherry cake mix with vanilla pudding and cherry soda.
It can be made using any flavor cake with pudding to match, and 1 cup water instead of ½ cup water and ½ cup soda.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest by "Robert Ellis" <rpearson@...> on Nov 13, 1999