Caterpillar Cake

Need a simple, cute idea for a cake? Try making a caterpillar cake!

I volunteered to donate a cake for a prize at a fundraising event. Being spring, a caterpillar cake seemed appropriate. You can make it any flavor you like. I chose to make a lemon cake since it would be easy to change yellow lemon frosting into green caterpillar frosting. Here's how it's done.

1. Bake a bundt cake from any standard cake mix or homemade recipe you like.

2. When the cake has cooled completely, cut it into three equal sections. You may need to trim some off of the bottom (what was the top before it was turned out of the pan) so that it will rest stably on the serving tray. Place the three sections end to end to create an S-curve.

3. Color a regular can of frosting (or frosting recipe) whatever color you'd like your caterpillar to be. Mine was green. Frost the entire cake leaving the two cut ends unfrosted. 

4. Use toothpicks to secure a Hostess Snowball to each end of the bundt cake.

5. Decorate the cake with various candies to create eyes, feet, spots, antennae, etc. For my cake, I used two miniature marshmallows smooshed flat with chocolate chips in the center as eyes. I used Hot Tamales candies for feet, gummy peach rings for spots, licorice for antennae, and pink sugar for a stripe down its back. Finally, I added a few Peeps to make the cake a little more Spring-y.