HERSHEY'S Gridiron Cake
Details
- Time
- 4 hours
- Skill Level
- Beginner
- Yields
- 1 cake
It’s game day and you want to make something special, but how do you make a football field cake? Follow this step-by-step recipe to create the ultimate touchdown for your taste buds. Game day doesn’t get any more delicious than this.
Ingredients & Directions
- Prep Time
- 55 minutes
- Bake Time
- 25 minutes
- Cool Time
- 2 hours
Ingredients
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1 can
ready-to-spread vanilla frosting creamy (16 oz), divided
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1 tsp
HERSHEY'S Cocoa or HERSHEY’S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa
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food color, green, red and yellow
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1-2/3 cups
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1 package
REESE'S PIECES Candies (8 oz)
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2
Floral craft wire (7 inches length)
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Gridiron Cake
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1 cup
water
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1 cup
butter or margarine (2 sticks)
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1/2 cup
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2 cups
sugar
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1-3/4 cups
all-purpose flour
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1 tsp
baking soda
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1/2 tsp
salt
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3
eggs
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3/4 cup
dairy sour cream
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Step-By-Step Directions
Prepare Gridiron Cake. For chocolate frosting, stir cocoa into 1/3 cup frosting; stir until smooth. Set aside 2 tablespoons chocolate frosting. Tint 1/3 cup frosting orange with 1 drop red food color and 2 drops yellow food color; stir until blended. Tint remaining frosting green with 2 or 3 drops green food color; stir until blended.
Mark "end zones", 2 inches wide at each end of cake, using wooden pick; frost one end zone with chocolate frosting and the other end zone with orange frosting. Frost the area between end zones with green frosting; mark 5 yard lines with wooden pick. Place white creme chips all across cake on yard lines.
Use white creme chips to spell out "HERSHEY'S" on chocolate end zone; use brown REESE'S PIECES on the goal line. Use yellow REESE'S PIECES to spell out "REESE'S" on orange end zone. Use orange REESE'S PIECES on the goal line.
Remove wrappers from chocolates and peanut butter cups. Arrange teams on cake playing field, using HERSHEY'S KISSES Milk Chocolates as one team and peanut butter cups as second team. Place HERSHEY'S HUGS Candies as referee officials on the field.
Unwrap caramel candies. Make goal posts* in the middle of each goal line on each side of the field by using reserved chocolate frosting to stack and "glue" together 3 caramel candies. Insert floral wire into each twist, bending wire and twist to form "U" shape for goal posts. "Glue" this section with frosting to top of each stack of ROLO® caramel candies and anchor with portion of wooden pick pushed into top of each stack.
Goal posts are for decorative purposes only and should not be eaten.
Gridiron Cake:
- Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 15-1/2 x10-1/2x1-inch disposable foil baking pan or jelly-roll pan.
- Combine water, butter and cocoa in medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture boils. Boil 1 minute. Remove from heat; set aside.
- Stir together sugar, flour, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs and sour cream; beat until blended. Add cocoa mixture; beat just until blended (batter will be thin). Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on wire rack.
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Nutrition FactsServings Per Container 18 servingsServing size 1 piece (140)Amount per servingCalories620% Daily Value*Total Fat 31g 40%Saturated Fat 20g 100%Trans Fat 0gCholesterol 70mg 23%Sodium 280mg 12%Total Carbohydrates 77g 28%Dietary Fiber 1g 4%Total Sugars 63gIncludes 60g Added Sugar 120%Protein 7gVitamin D 0 0%Calcium 28mg 2%Iron 2mg 10%Potassium 59mg 2%
* The % Daily Value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutritional advice.
