Welcome Back To School Cake

Prep: 25 minutes

Celebrate "back to school" by decorating a Pepperidge Farm® layer cake.

ingredients

2 Pepperidge Farm® Vanilla Bean 3 Layer Cake
4 strawberry twists
Assorted decorating gel (red, blue, green, yellow)
Assorted colored sugar (red, yellow)
Candy-coated fruit-flavored pieces

directions

THAW cake until frosting softens. Trim one edge of Styrofoam plate even with cake, using scissors. Repeat with other cake. Place these two sides together.

SMOOTH frosting where cakes are joined, using a metal spatula dipped in water. Smooth frosting on sides of cake.

MAKE an outline of a "chalkboard" on top of the cake, using strawberry twists. With green gel, write "Welcome Back" or "Back to School" in center. Add apples, notebooks, pencils, etc., using gels.

ADD 1-2-3 along right side of cake between chalkboard and edge, using gels. Add A-B-C on left side. Sprinkle with colored sugars as needed.

DECORATE sides of cake with fruit-flavored pieces.

TIP: Use your imagination to create your own special Back to School Cake. Craft stores have a variety of cake decorations, frostings and gels that make cake decorating fun.