Family Tree Cake

Turn a basic cake mix, prepared frosting, and a handful of candies into a special tribute to your lineage.

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ingredients 9
Prep Time 25 min
Total Time 1 hr 35 min

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

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Directions

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.
2 Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely on cooling rack, about 45 minutes.
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.
4 With sharp knife, cut small slit in side of each gumdrop half. Insert one end of paper leaf in slit; place on cake.

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Expert Tips

You can use any flavor of cake mix that you like -- just use the amounts of water, oil and eggs indicated on the box.

Use a toothpick to outline the shape of the tree before frosting it with chocolate frosting.

Nutrition Information

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING

Serving Size: 1 Serving

Calories: 290
Calories from Fat: 100),

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 11g; 11%
(Saturated Fat 6g, 6% Trans Fat 1/2g 1/2% ),
Cholesterol: 35mg; 35%;
Sodium: 180mg; 180%;
Total Carbohydrate: 45g; 45%
(Dietary Fiber 0g 0% Sugars 34g 34% ),
Protein: 2g; 2%

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 0%;
Vitamin C: 0%;
Calcium: 4%;
Iron: 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;