Recipe Hamburger Cake (Cake)

Required Ingredients:

• 1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
• 1 (18.25 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
• yellow paste food coloring
• brown paste food coloring
• 3/4 cup prepared chocolate frosting
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Preparing/Cooking:

• Preheat oven according to cake mix directions.
• Butter and flour one 8 inch round and one 9 inch round cake pan and one 2 quart ovenproof bowl 8 inches in diameter.
• Prepare cake mixes.
• Pour 1 3/4 cups of the white mix into the 8 inch round cake pan, and the rest into the 2 quart bowl.
• Pour 1 3/4 cups of the chocolate mix into the 9 inch round pan.
• Bake 8 inch cake for 25 minutes, 9 inch cake for 20 minutes and bowl cake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted into centers comes out clean.
• Cool in pans on racks 10 minutes.
• Remove from pans; cool completely on racks.
• In separate small bowls, tint small amounts of vanilla frosting red and yellow, to use as ketchup and mustard.
• Tint remaining vanilla frosting light brown, using brown and yellow food coloring.
• For bun bottom, frost the 8 inch cake with light brown frosting.
• For hamburger patty, spread top and sides of 9 inch chocolate cake with chocolate frosting Lightly press all around sides of cake with folded paper towel, pulling towel straight out to create rough edge of burger.
• center cake on top of bun bottom.
• For cheese, arrange orange fruit chews in single layer on microwave-safe plate.
• Microwave on High 10-15 seconds or until slightly softened.
• With hands, press and flatten chews together to form 9 inch square.
• Place on top of hamburger patty.
• On work surface sprinkled with granulated sugar roll out 5 leaf-shaped gumdrops to 1/8 inch thickness to form 1 large lettuce leaf; repeat rolling with 6 more gumdrops to form another leaf.
• Arrange over cheese near edges of burger.
• For tomatoes, roll out red gumdrops individually to 1/8 inch thickness.
• Arrange over lettuce around burger edges.
• For onion rings, roll out white gumdrops to 1/8 inch thickness.
• With round cookie cutters or sharp knife cut out circles; cut 1/4 inch thick rings from circles with small cutters.
• Re-roll scraps to make additional rings; arrange rings over tomatoes.
• Arrange fruit-slice candies over onions for pickles.
• Pipe red and yellow icing around edges of burger for ketchup and mustard.
• For bun top: If necessary, trim bowl cake so that it will be flat on the bottom when inverted.
• Invert firm paper plate onto work surface.
• Center bowl cake, trimmed side down, on top of plate.
• Starting from the top, spread remaining light brown frosting in lines down sides of cake, turning plate after each section.
• Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
• Carefully place on top of the cake.

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