Gumball Machine Cake
Decorative cake designed to resemble a gumball machine.Recipe Ingredients:
| 4 | box | (16 oz ea.) poundcake mix |
| 3 | cup | water |
| 8 | eggs | |
| 5 | container | (16 oz ea.) white frosting |
| red gel or paste food color | ||
| 4 | lbs | (about 6 cups) gumballs |
| confectioners sugar | ||
| 1 | pkg | (4.4 oz) yellow fondant from a 1.1-lb box of |
| ready-to-use primary colors multipack rolled fondant | ||
| 6 | (8-in. or longer) wooden skewers | |
| 1 1/2 | gal | (7 1/2-in. diam x 7-in. high) plastic fish bowl |
| 1 | 6-in. diam circle of cardboard | |
| 5 | cherry-flavor AirHeads candies | |
| 1 | pkg | (14 oz) cherry-flavor Twizzlers Pull-n-Peel licorice |
Recipe Instructions:
| 1. | Preheat oven to 350F. You'll need two 8 x 2-in. round cake pans and two 9 x 3-in. springform pans coated with nonstick spray, bottoms lined with wax paper and sprayed. You'll also need a sturdy round (or square) serving surface about 12 inch in diam. |
| 2. | Prepare 2 cake mixes at a time as directed, using 1 1/2 cups water and 4 eggs. Pour 2 1/2 cups batter into each 8-in. pan (cover remaining batter and let stand at room temperature). Bake 30 to 35 minutes until pick inserted into centers comes out clean. Meanwhile, prepare remaining 2 cake mixes using remaining water and eggs, then stir in reserved batter from first 2 mixes. Divide batter between 9-in. pans. Bake 45 to 50 minutes until pick inserted into centers comes out clean. Cool all cakes 10 minutes on wire racks. Remove from pans, peel off paper and cool completely. |
| 3. | Tint frosting red. With a long serrated knife, trim tops from 9-in. cakes to make them level. Cut a 6-in. diam round from one of the top trimmings. Place a 9-in. layer on serving plate. Spread top thinly with frosting; top with remaining 9-in. layer and spread thinly with frosting. Continue with 8-in. layers and some frosting. |
| 4. | With toothpick, score a 6-in. diam circle onto top of cake. With serrated knife, trim cake on a slant from circle about halfway down sides to make gumball machine shape. Spread top of cake with thin layer of frosting. |
| 5. | Cut a 1"h x 2"w x 3/4"d hole in cake about 2 in. up from bottom. Cut top edge of hole on a diagonal. Reserve 1 cup frosting. Spread sides of cake (including hole) with remaining frosting. Place 3 gumballs in hole. |
| 6. | On surface lightly dusted with confectioners sugar, roll out fondant to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut out a 4 x 3 1/2-in. rectangle and a 2-in. square. Cut a 1 1/4-in.-diam hole for the coin slot near top center of rectangle. Cut notch at center of bottom edge and round off bottom corners. With toothpick, score a border around edges, a circle under coin slot, and swirls at each corner. Lightly brush edges of square with water; attach to back of rectangle behind coin slot. Shape a tsp of fondant into knob; brush back with water and attach over circle. Attach fondant panel on side of cake above the 3 gumballs, spreading small amount of frosting on back if necessary. |
| 7. | Insert skewers straight down into top of cake all the way to the bottom, cutting them if necessary so that they are flush with top of cake. Arrange them in a circular pattern to support the weight of the fish bowl and gumballs. |
| 8. | Fill fish bowl with remaining gumballs. Attach 6-in. cardboard circle to top of bowl with small amount of frosting; top with 6-in. cake round. Spread cake with 2/3 cup reserved frosting. Place fish bowl on top of cake. Lay AirHeads candies end to end; press edges together to attach. Wrap around cake at base of fish bowl, using frosting to attach if necessary. |
| 9. | Peel strands from one bundle of licorice in groups of 3 attached strands. Wrap around base of cake, trimming to fit and using frosting to attach if necessary. Peel strands from second bundle of licorice in groups of 2 attached strands. Wrap around top of fish bowl, using frosting to attach. |
| 10. | To serve: Lift top from fish bowl and fish bowl from cake base. Remove skewers before slicing. Serve a few gumballs along with cake. Serves 32 (Note: For plastic fish bowl, go to aquariumguys.com, or visit crafts or pet supply stores.) |
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