Notes

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Sunday, July 1, 2012

Uncle Sams Krispy Treat Cake

Uncle Sams Krispy Treat Cake
A Taste of Home Recipe and a good idea for the fourth

8 cups miniature marshmallows
1/2 cup butter, cubed
12 cups crisp rice cereal
2-1/2 cups shortening
3 cups confectioners' sugar
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 jars (7 ounces each) marshmallow creme
Red and blue paste food coloring

In a Dutch oven, combine marshmallows and cubed butter. Cook and stir over medium-low heat until melted. Remove from the heat; stir in cereal. Press 4 cups into a greased 9-in. round pan. Form remaining mixture into a 5-in. diameter x 6-1/2-in. tall cylinder; place on waxed paper to cool.

For frosting, in a large bowl, beat softened butter until fluffy; beat in confectioners' sugar and vanilla until smooth. Beat in marshmallow creme until light and fluffy.
Unmold cereal mixture from 9-in. pan and place on a cake plate. Place 3 cups frosting in a small bowl; beat in red food coloring until smooth. Frost top and sides of 9-in. cake with 1 cup red frosting.
Place 1 cup white frosting in a small bowl; beat in blue food coloring until smooth. Frost bottom 2-1/4 in. of the cylinder with blue frosting. Place cylinder on cake. Frost the rest of the cylinder with red frosting.

Cut a small hole in the corner of pastry or plastic bag; insert #48 basketweave tip. Using white frosting, pipe stripes on sides of hat. With a #7 round tip, pipe trim.
Using a 1-1/2 in. star cookie cutter, press a row of stars onto hatband. Fill in stars with white frosting using the #7 tip. Yield: 24 servings.

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