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initial. Then frost the cake and cover it gift stores and where silver and crystal
with grated chocolate or candy are sold. They make a nice birthday gift
sprinkles. to a child.
• Spell it out. Pipe on a happy birthday Other Fun, Fast Decorations
greeting using the supermarket squeeze
• Mint leaves
tubes of icing or a thick cream cheese
frosting that has been well chilled. • Fruit leathers cut into shapes
Don’t own a pastry bag? Place icing in a
• Coconut, plain or toasted
clean zipper-lock food bag. Seal, snip
off a tiny corner, and squeeze out the • Sliced toasted almonds pressed onto
frosting. Practice writing first on a piece the sides of the cake
of waxed paper.
• Rose petals on the platter
• Ribbon. Waterproof ribbon is best.
• Fruit slices and spirals when fruit is
Run it along the bottom of the cake,
used in the recipe
pressing it into the frosting. Remove
the ribbon before slicing the cake. • Grated chocolate

• Candle holders. Pretty holders raise • Chocolate curls
the candles off the cake and add a
decorative effect. They can be found at

flour. Shake out the excess flour. Set the look well combined. Divide the batter
pans aside. between the prepared pans, smoothing
it out with the rubber spatula. Place the
2. Place the cake mix, pudding mix,
pans in the oven side by side.
milk, oil, eggs, and vanilla in a large
mixing bowl. Blend with an electric 3. Bake the cakes until they turn
mixer on low speed for 1 minute. Stop golden brown and spring back when
the machine and scrape down the sides lightly pressed with your finger, 30 to 35
of the bowl with a rubber spatula. minutes. Remove the pans from the oven
Increase the mixer speed to medium and and place them on wire racks to cool for
beat 2 minutes more, scraping down the 10 minutes. Run a dinner knife around
sides again if needed. The batter should the edge of each layer and invert each