Moose Cake

This cake is the spitting image of a certain Moose A. Moose, except this Moose has chocolaty antlers and graham cracker cookie feet! Stupendous!

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Wilton Milk Chocolate Candy Melt Wafers
• 2 cans (16 oz. each) vanilla frosting
• Yellow, blue, and green food coloring
• 1 baked 9-inch-round cake in your child's favorite flavor
• 1 whole graham cracker
• 2 black licorice drops or Junior Mints
• 2 peanut butter or butterscotch chips

Supplies

• Moose Cake Template

Directions

1. Step 1

   Bake a cake in your child's favorite flavor. Set aside to cool.

2. Step 2

   Place the antler templates on a sheet pan and cover with a piece of wax paper. Place the Candy Melt Wafers in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave on high for about 1 minute, stirring every 20 seconds, until the candy is melted. Spoon into a plastic resealable bag. Snip a small corner from the bag and pipe the the antlers following the outlines of the template. Fill in the antlers with the remaining melted chocolate. Transfer to the refrigerator until set, about 5 minutes.

3. Step 3

   Spoon 1/4 cup of the frosting into a resealable bag and set aside. Tint 1 cup of the frosting by stirring in the yellow food coloring until you have achieved a pale yellow color. Tint 1/4 cup of the frosting a darker yellow and spoon into a resealable bag. Tint 1 cup of the frosting dark green and 1/4 cup of the frosting light green and spoon each color into a resealable bag. Tint the remaining frosting light blue.

4. Step 4

   Snap the graham cracker in half and follow the foot templates to cut each graham cracker half with a serrated knife to form a foot.

5. Step 5

   Place a cake on a serving platter. Spread the top with some of the light blue frosting. Place the body template on top of the cake and use a toothpick to score the surface, following the outline of the template. Spread the remaining light blue frosting on the sides and up to the score line on top of the cake. Add the cookie feet. Spread the pale yellow frosting on the inside of the score line and cookies and make smooth. Snip a small corner from each bag with the green frostings. Pipe both green frostings to make grass on the bottom quarter of the cake. Snip a very small corner from the bag with the yellow frosting. Pipe the outline of Moose.

6. Step 6

   Use a small 2-inch-round cookie cutter to mark the eyes. Snip a small corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting. Pipe small swirls on the blue part of the cake. Pipe outline and fill in the eyes with the white frosting. Add the black candies as the pupils and pipe a white highlight on each pupil. Add the peanut butter chips as the nose.

7. Step 7

   Insert the chocolate antlers into the cake right before serving.

Nurtition Facts

• Calories: 349
• Total Fat: 13g
• Saturated Fat: 11g
• Trans Fat: 0g
• Cholesterol: 25mg
• Sodium: 44mg
• Total Carbs: 56g
• Fiber: 0g
• Sugar: 50g
• Protein: 2g