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A fun chocolate sheet cake
decorated to look like a football field with the two teams represented
by candy Kisses and peanut butter cups.
Hershey's
Gridiron Cake
- Green, red and yellow
food color
1 (16-ounce) can creamy vanilla ready-to-spread frosting - divided
use
1 tablespoon HERSHEY'S Cocoa
- 1 2/3 cups HERSHEY'S Premier
White Chips
- 1 (8-ounce) package REESE'S
PIECES Candy
11 HERSHEY'S KISSES Brand Milk Chocolates
- 11 REESE'S Peanut Butter
Cups Miniatures
- 3 HERSHEY'S HUGS Brand
Chocolates
- 6 ROLO Caramels in Milk
Chocolate
2 TWIZZLERS Strawberry Twists
GRIDIRON CAKE (recipe follows)
- Prepare GRIDIRON CAKE.
For chocolate frosting, stir cocoa into 1/3 cup frosting; stir
until smooth. Tint 1/3 cup frosting orange with 1 drop red food
color and 2 drops yellow food color; stir until blended. Tint
remaining frosting green with 2 or 3 drops green food color;
stir until blended.
- Mark "end zones",
2 inches wide at each end of cake, using wooden pick; frost one
end zone with chocolate frosting and the other end zone with
orange frosting. Frost the area between end zones with green
frosting; mark 5 yard lines with wooden pick. Place white chips
all across cake on yard lines.
- Use white chips to spell
out "HERSHEY'S" on chocolate end zone; use brown REESE'S
PIECES on the goal line. Use yellow REESE'S PIECES to spell out
"REESE'S" on orange end zone. Use orange REESE'S PIECES
on the goal line.
- Remove wrappers from chocolates
and peanut butter cups. Arrange teams on cake playing field,
using HERSHEY'S KISSES Brand Milk Chocolates as one team and
peanut butter cups as second team. Place HERSHEY'S HUGS Brand
Chocolates as referee officials on the field.
- Unwrap ROLOs; for goal
posts, stack 3 ROLOs in the middle of each goal line on each
side of field. Shape strawberry twists into "U" shapes
for goal posts. "Glue" with frosting to top of each
stack of ROLOs.
Makes 18 servings.
- GRIDIRON CAKE:
1 cup water
1 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
2 cups granulated sugar
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
3/4 cup dairy sour cream
- Heat oven to 350°F
(175°C). Grease and flour 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1-inch disposable
foil baking pan or jelly-roll pan.
- Combine water, butter
and cocoa in medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring
occasionally, until mixture boils. Boil 1 minute. Remove from
heat; set aside.
- Stir together sugar, flour,
baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs and sour cream;
beat until blended. Add cocoa mixture; beat just until blended
(batter will be thin). Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake 25 to 30 minutes
or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool
cake in pan on wire rack.
Recipe courtesy of the Hershey Kitchens,
and reprinted with permission of The Hershey Company. ©
The Hershey Company.
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