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Mermaid Cake

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Mermaid Cake
  • Prep 1 hr 10 min
  • Total 2 hr 20 min
  • Ingredients 11
  • Servings 12
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Fruit Roll-Ups® snack rolls take the cake for creating our must-try mermaid and delicious cake.

Ingredients

  • 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ yellow cake mix
  • Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
  • 1 1/2 containers Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting
  • Betty Crocker™ blue gel food color
  • 1 tablespoon purple colored sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Betty Crocker™ blue candy sprinkles
  • 1 fashion doll in swimsuit or sleeveless top (11 1/2 inches tall)
  • 3 rolls Betty Crocker™ Fruit Roll-Ups® chewy fruit snack (from 5-oz box)
  • Granulated sugar
  • 6 large orange, yellow and/or white gumdrops
  • 8 assorted sea creature candies

Directions

  • 1
    Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Grease or spray bottoms and sides of one 10-oz custard cup and two 8-inch round cake pans.
  • 2
    Make cake batter as directed on box. Pour 2/3 cup batter into custard cup; divide remaining cake batter evenly between cake pans. Bake 23 to 28 minutes (26 to 33 minutes for dark or nonstick pans) or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Remove cakes from custard cup and pans; place rounded sides up on cooling racks. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
  • 3
    Trim off rounded tops from 8-inch cakes. On serving plate, place 1 round cake layer, cut side down. Spread with 1/3 cup frosting. Top with second round cake layer, cut side down. Trim off rounded top of custard-cup cake to make flat surface. With small amount of frosting, attach custard-cup cake, flat side down, to top of layer cake, lining up rounded edge with layer cake edge. Using doll as a guide, cut and remove rounded piece from custard-cup cake to make seat for doll. (Discard cut-out piece.)
  • 4
    Into small bowl, spoon 3/4 cup frosting. Tint with blue food color to make light blue; set aside. Frost sides and top of cake with remaining white frosting. To add waves, frost lower side of cake with blue frosting. Dip a fork in a few drops additional blue food color; swirl in blue frosting on cake to add wave effect. Sprinkle top of cake with colored sugars.
  • 5
    Tie hair of fashion doll in ponytail. (Keep swimsuit or clothes on doll.) Wrap body of doll with plastic wrap, covering bustline and leaving arms free and shoulders uncovered. With 2 fruit snack rolls, wrap plastic-wrapped portion of doll, overlapping rolls and pressing to stick together. Wrap third snack roll around legs and extend 2 inches beyond feet; press together to form a fin shape, trimming if necessary. Place doll in seat on cake.
  • 6
    To make starfish, on surface sprinkled with granulated sugar, flatten each gumdrop to make 1 1/2-inch round. Using scissors, cut 5 wedges from each gumdrop round to form a star. Pull gently to extend points of stars. Decorate cake and serving plate with starfish and sea creature candies. Store loosely covered.

Expert Tips

  • tip 1
    Place Fruit Roll-Ups® snack rolls in the refrigerator for a few minutes to help release from plastic wrapper, if necessary.
  • tip 2
    For a sand effect, sprinkle top of cake and around serving plate with turbinado sugar (raw sugar) instead of blue and purple colored sugars.

Nutrition Information

460 Calories, 20g Total Fat, 2g Protein, 68g Total Carbohydrate, 47g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Serving (Cake and Frosting Only)
Calories
460
Calories from Fat
180
Total Fat
20g
30%
Saturated Fat
4 1/2g
21%
Trans Fat
3 1/2g
Cholesterol
55mg
18%
Sodium
390mg
16%
Potassium
55mg
2%
Total Carbohydrate
68g
23%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
47g
Protein
2g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
0%
0%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
8%
8%
Iron
4%
4%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 4 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 4 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
4 1/2
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

More About This Recipe

  • Fruit Roll-Ups® snack rolls take the cake for creating our must-try mermaid and delicious cake.
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