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Max and Ruby Birthday Cake

Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Birthdays, Cakes, For Kids, For Toddlers, Sweets
Servings 12 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 1 box vanilla cake mix OR your favorite vanilla cake recipe
  • 1 box chocolate cake mix OR your favorite chocolate cake recipe
  • 1 can strawberry frosting OR your favorite strawberry or vanilla frosting (you can make the frosting pink by adding 1 drop of red food coloring to the frosting)
  • 1 can chocolate frosting OR your favorite chocolate frosting recipe
  • 1 4.5 oz tube yellow decorating frosting OR if you made vanilla buttercream, take 1/3 of it and add 1 drop of food coloring to it)

Cake Decorations

  • Gummy worms
  • Raspberries
  • Star Sprinkles

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven 350 and cover two 9-inch cake pans with parchment paper. Set aside
  • Either make your cake recipes or make the boxed cake mixes according to box directions. Pour the vanilla into one cake pan and the chocolate in the other (the cake mixes make double the amount of cake batter, so only pour in half of the batters into the cake pans.
  • Bake your cakes according to box instructions and set aside to cool completely. Once cooled, pop them out of the cake pans and set on a wire rack while you get your frostings ready
  • Either make your pink, yellow and chocolate frostings or set the store bought ones out in front of you so they’re ready to use as you assemble your cake
  • Cut both cakes in half. Stack the cut-in-half vanilla and chocolate cakes and stack them on top of each other and connect the two (see pictures above). Shave off the top if needed to make them even
  • Add one layer of pink frosting in between the vanilla cake layers and one layer of chocolate frosting in between the chocolate layers. Then using the rest of the frostings, frost the outside of the cake until even
  • Using the tube of yellow decorating frosting or your own vanilla frosting with yellow food coloring in a pastry bag, pipe out yellow circles around the pink side of the cake.
  • Decorate the chocolate side of the cake with gummy worms and raspberries and the pink side of the cake with star sprinkles
  • Stick in some candles and cut the cake! Serve! You can store in an airtight container for up to 3 days. Enjoy!:)