Easy Sponge Bob Cake

Several years ago my daughter wanted a 'Sponge Bob' themed party.... being the thrifty mom that I am I vowed to make the cake instead of spend outrageous amount of money on a bakery cake. Pictured above you can see the fantastic results. This was VERY easy, and I will tell you just how it's done.



Sponge Bob Cake... serves 8= large pieces, 16= smaller pieces


Ingredients:


Cake mix, your choice of flavor, enough to make one 9"x13" cake. (White or Yellow mix works best) whatever things you need to make that cake, eggs, oil etc.


White frosting, the 'fluffy' type looks the best. enough to frost a 9"x13" cake (check label)


Cake Decorating "icing colors" Yellow and Blue (NOT food coloring, they are not strong enough to make the darker color you need) Can be purchased at most party supply or craft stores that have cake decorating sections. (ie: http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E30C9BC-475A-BAC0-52C7C1607D9BCFC5&fid=77280EF0-475A-BAC0-514D0BED6554CFE4 )


Small tube Black gel frosting like this: http://www.signaturebrands.com/9C4CBB1816FC4298969A04C047BFC780.asp?ccb_key=EA717EEEA06F484BA92F835CC0CB59FA


Approx. 24 -White 'lifesaver' type candy (has to be all white)

16 Chocolate Chips, the same kind you use to make cookies with.

8 Yellow long jelly type candies... like these http://www.justborn.com/mike-and-ike

Baking parchment-available at most grocery stores, or place you got the icing colors



Assembly instructions:

Line baking pan with baking parchment. Let some hang over the edges, you can use this to lift the cake out of the pan later.

Bake the cake per the package directions, let cool. Place a fresh sheet of parchment on the final serving platter (a cookie pan is what is in the picture)while the cake cools prepare the frostings

Put frosting in a bowl and take out 2 Tablespoons and put in a small bowl.

Mix yellow icing color with the large amount of frosting until you get the desired color (does not take much so use a little at first )

Mix a tiny bit of blue with the 2 Tablespoons frosting to get the desired color

Lift cake carefully out of pan, while supporting it gently peel off baking parchment and place on final serving platter you have prepared.

Frost the top of the cake with the yellow and divide the cake into 8 sections by gently drawing a knife through the frosting as pictured above, to make 8 rectangles.

Place two lifesaver candies for the eyes.

Place a small amount of blue frosting in the hole of each lifesaver and then push a chocolate chip in the blue frosting upside down

Use the black gel to draw a smile

break up some of the remaining lifesaver to make 'teeth' shapes and place two under each smile.

Use yellow jelly type candies to make a nose for each 'face' (the nose is hard to see on the picture above, you may have to look closely or change you zoom level.)

Made with the above method the 8 pieces are a bit large for a child to eat, so you may want to cut each portion in half. OR you can make 16 faces by doubling the amount of lifesavers and chocolate chips and drawing 16 rectangles in the frosting. (the faces would be in the opposite direction as pictured above, so just rotate the plate)

Hope you and your child will enjoy this silly but fun cake!