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Mother Bug Cake

Ingredients & Directions


1 16 oz. packa; ?
1 lb Cake mix
1 16 oz. can milk chocolate
-frosting
2 tb Vanilla frosting
2 3″ store bought cookies
2 Peanut butter cups
2 Miniature peppermint patties
9 Yellow and 2 orange Reese’s
-Pieces
9 Rolos
50 Hershey’s Kisses
16 Hershey’s Nuggets
1 Mini peanut butter cup
1 4″ piece red pull ‘n peel
-licorice
4 Purple pieces pull ‘n peel
-licorice –
; pulled into 2 strands of 4
4 Miniature Mounds bars; cut
-in half

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 1 1/2 quart oven proof
bowl. Prepare the cake mix according to directions and pour batter into
prepared bowl. Bake in the center of oven until toothpick comes out clean
or 50 minutes. Cool on wire rack for 10 minutes. Invert cake onto wire rack
and let cool. Attach the peanut butter cups to the cookies with a dab of
vanilla frosting. Top that with more frosting and the peppermint patties.
For the pupils, attach the orange Reese’s Pieces with the vanilla frosting.
Cut six 1″ pieces of the purple licorice and attach with the frosting as
the eye lashes. Allow eyes to set for 15 minutes to secure candy. Transfer
cake to a serving platter, round side up. Frost entire cake with chocolate
frosting. Press the Nuggets around the base of the cake. Press the eyes
about 1 1/2″ up from the nuggets. Attach the nose and mouth. Press the
Rolos into the top of the cake in a diamond shape and fill in the remaining
space with the Kisses. Using a small amount of frosting, attach the yellow
Reese’s Pieces on top of the Rolos. Press the purple licorice ropes into
the base and press the cut end of the Mounds at the ends of the legs.


Yields
1 servings