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Uncle Sam's Crispy Treat Cake

Kids and adults will enjoy decorating this patriotic treat as well as eating it! I had fun creating the recipe and made sure it was easy to do and very delicious. —Annie Rundle, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

24 ServingsPrep: 1-1/4 hours

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

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Uncle Sam's Crispy Treat Cake (continued)

Directions (continued)

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.

Nutrition Facts: 1 piece equals 462 calories, 24 g fat (7 g saturated fat), 10 mg cholesterol, 181 mg sodium, 60 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein.