Recipe - Poinsettia Cake

CAKE
1 pack Cherry cake mix *
1 small Vanilla pudding mix; not
instant *
One half cup Water
One half cup Cherry soda *
4 Eggs
One half cup Vegetable oil

DECORATIONS
1 cn Vanilla frosting
Yellow sugar
14 ounce Holiday M&M"s; red & green

Heat oven to 350~. Grease and flour 13x9" pan. Prepare cake by mixing cake
mix with pudding. Add water, soda, oil and eggs. Beat for 2 minutes with
electic mixer. Bake according to time given on cake box. Cool completely.
Frost top of cake; lightly score cake into 24 sections. Following diagram,
fill in center area with red M&M's, leaving a circle in the center.
Sprinkle the center circle with yellow sugar. Fill in remainder of cake
around poinsettia with green M&M's. The 14oz package contains enough pieces
to make this design.

* I made this using a cherry cake mix with vanilla pudding and cherry soda.
It can be made using any flavor cake with pudding to match, and 1 cup water
instead of One half cup water and One half cup soda.

Posted to MMRecipes Digest by "Robert Ellis" rpearson@snowcrest.net on
Nov 13, 1999