Robot Cake

Prep Time: 1 Hour 45 Minutes • Start to Finish: 4 Hours 25 Minutes • 12 servings

Create a fun cake that’s all decked out with Fruit by the Foot chewy snack and a delightful assortment of kids’ candies.

• Cake
• 1 box Betty Crocker SuperMoist yellow cake mix
• Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
• Tray or cardboard (20 x 15 inches), covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil
• Frosting and Decorations
• 1½ containers (1 lb each) Betty Crocker Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting
• Black food color
• Blue food color
• 2 colorful licorice twists (7 inch)
• 2 large black gumdrops
• 2 soft fruit ring candies
• 2 blue candy-coated chocolate candies
• 3 pull-apart red (cherry) licorice twists
• 20 candy-coated chocolate candies (any color)
• 1 roll Betty Crocker Fruit by the Foot chewy fruit snack (any variety from 4.5-oz box)
• 6 thin chocolate wafer cookies

1 Heat oven to 350ºF (325ºF for dark or nonstick pan). Grease or spray bottom and sides of 13 x 9-inch pan. Make and bake cake as directed on box for 13 x 9-inch pan. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Refrigerate or freeze cake 1 hour or until firm.

2 Tint frosting with black and blue food colors to make desired gray color. Using serrated knife, cut rounded top off cake to level surface; place cake cut side down on work surface. Cut cake as shown in diagram 1. On tray, arrange cake pieces as shown in diagram 2, attaching to tray with small amount of frosting. Spread thin layer of frosting over top and sides to seal in crumbs. Refrigerate or freeze cake 30 to 60 minutes to set frosting.

3 Frost entire cake with remaining frosting. Cut 1 colorful licorice twist into 2 (1-inch) pieces. Carefully insert licorice pieces between head and body.

4 Cut remaining colorful licorice twist in half. Using scissors, make several cuts in 1 end of each licorice piece to form antennae. Insert licorice pieces, antennae ends up, into top of head. Insert gumdrops in sides of head for ears. Arrange fruit rings on head for eyes; use 2 blue candy-coated chocolate candies for pupils. Separate 1 pull-apart red licorice twist into single strands. Trim 1 strand to 3 inches; place on head for mouth. Use remaining strands to decorate base of robot as desired, trimming to fit.

5 Tie a knot in each remaining pull-apart red licorice twist. Insert knotted licorice twists in each side of body for arms. To decorate robot body, arrange 20 candy-coated chocolate candies in desired pattern on body. Use fruit snack to form border around candy design, trimming to fit. For wheels, insert chocolate wafer cookies in base of cake. Store loosely covered.

1 Serving (Cake and Frosting Only): Calories 430; Total Fat 19g (Saturated Fat 4g, Trans Fat 3.5g); Cholesterol 50mg; Sodium 360mg; Total Carbohydrate 65g (Dietary Fiber 0g); Protein 2g Exchanges: 1 Starch, 3½ Other Carbohydrate, 3½ Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 4

Cutting and Assembling Robot Cake

1. Cut cake for body, base and head.

2. Arrange pieces on tray to form robot.