Cell Phone Cake

Prep Time: 35 Minutes • Start to Finish: 2 Hours 50 Minutes • 15 servings

There’s no need to put in a call to a baker for your teen girl’s birthday. Ring in the big day with a clever homemade cake!

• Cake
• 1 box Betty Crocker SuperMoist white cake mix
• Water, vegetable oil and egg whites called for on cake mix box
• Tray or cardboard (18 x 16 inches), covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil
• Frosting and Decorations
• 1½ containers (1 lb each) Betty Crocker Rich & Creamy creamy white frosting
• Pink paste or gel food color
• Decorating bag with tips
• 12 white candy-coated chewing gum squares
• 1 package (3.2 oz) marshmallow flowers
• 3 oval licorice candies
• 1 candy straw

1 Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Spray bottom only of 13 x 9-inch pan with baking spray with flour. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 13 x 9-inch pan. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.

2 Cut 1¼-inch strip from each long side of cake. Trim each corner of cake to round off, making cell phone shape as shown in diagrams 1 and 2. (Discard pieces trimmed from cake or reserve for another use.) Place cake on tray as shown in diagram 3. Freeze 1 hour.

3 Divide 1 container of white frosting in half (about ¾ cup each). Place half of frosting in small bowl. Stir food color into half of frosting to tint pink. Frost bottom half of cake with pink frosting. Frost top half of cake with white frosting.

4 From ½ container of frosting, reserve about 2 tablespoons white frosting in small bowl. In another small bowl, tint about ¼ cup of the frosting pink. Onto center of white-frosted half of cake, spread some of the pink frosting in square shape for message screen. Place remaining pink frosting in decorating bag with writing tip. Pipe pink frosting along edge of white-frosted cake. Arrange gum on cake for number buttons; pipe on numbers with pink frosting.

5 With reserved white frosting, pipe desired message on message screen. Add marshmallow flowers and licorice candies. Add candy straw for antenna. Store loosely covered.

1 Serving (Cake and Frosting Only): Calories 340; Total Fat 13g (Saturated Fat 2.5g, Trans Fat 2.5g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 320mg; Total Carbohydrate 54g (Dietary Fiber 0g); Protein 2g Exchanges: 1 Starch, 2½ Other Carbohydrate, 2½ Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 3½

Tip Instead of using a decorating bag and tip, place the frosting in a resealable food-storage plastic bag, cut a tiny tip off one corner and use to pipe the frosting. Use different bags for different colors.

Cutting and Assembling Cell Phone Cake

1. Cut 1¼-inch strip from each long side of cake.

2. Trim each corner of cake to round off, making cell phone shape.

3. Place cake on tray.

4. Frost top half of cake with white frosting and bottom half with pink frosting.