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Knight's Castle Cake
Prep Time 45 mins
Total Time 2 hrs 35 mins
12 Servings
1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® yellow cake mix
1 1/4 cups water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
Blue food color
1 container Betty Crocker® Whipped fluffy white frosting
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
4 gumdrops
4 Betty Crocker® Fruit by the Foot® chewy fruit-flavored snacks (from variety
pack of different colors)
1/4 cup multicolored small goldfish-shaped crackers
Rock candy, if desired
1/2 bar milk chocolate candy, with or without almonds, if desired
1. Heat oven to 325°F. Generously grease Castle Bundt® cake pan with
shortening and lightly flour, or spray pan with baking spray with flour.
2. In large bowl, beat cake mix, water, oil and eggs with electric
mixer on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl
occasionally. Pour batter into pan.
3. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake
comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Turn pan upside down onto cooling rack;
remove pan. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
4. Place cake on 12- to 15-inch serving plate, tray or piece of
cardboard covered with foil. Stir 8 to 10 drops blue food color into frosting.
Spread frosting around base of cake to look like water. Sprinkle brown sugar
around frosting on plate to look like sand.
5. Place gumdrops on top of each tower. Cut long flag-shaped pieces out
of fruit snack with sharp knife or kitchen scissors. Roll fruit snack around 4
toothpicks to make flags; insert toothpicks into gumdrops. Arrange crackers and
rock candy in frosting, and add chocolate bar, upside down, for drawbridge as
shown.
Expert Tips
You can bake and freeze the cake before your big celebration. Tightly cover
unfrosted cake and freeze for up to 2 months. Thaw and decorate the day before
your celebration.
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Rhonda G in Missouri
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