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Our son, Alex, came home from school telling me it was his turn to bring in a snack for his class. The snack had to use the letter of the week, which happened to be 'X'. My husband came up with the idea of the xylophone and it delighted Alex's classmates and his teacher.—Michele Cascais, Mendham, New Jersey

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Xylophone Cakes Recipe

Prep: 40 min.

Yield: 14 Servings

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Ingredients

2 loaves (10-3/4 ounces each) frozen pound cake, thawed
Yellow, green, orange and red gel food coloring
1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
M&M's miniature baking bits
28 miniature marshmallows
28 pretzel sticks

Directions

Cut each cake widthwise into seven 1-in. slices. Trim a diagonal slice from the long sides of each slice, angling slightly, leaving 1 in. wide at a short end.
Use food coloring to tint the frosting. Carefully spread or pipe stripes on cake slices; top with miniature baking bits. For mallets, press a miniature marshmallow into one end of each pretzel stick. Yield: 14 cakes.

Originally published as Xylophone Cakes in Quick Cooking July/August 2003, p40

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Reviewed on May. 10, 2011 by RedondoBeachMama

I finally found the idea I've been searching for, this worked out great for my son's preschool class since he got stuck with the letter X. I really searched for the best and cutiest idea out but this one was far better than them all. I did follow the recipe did my own color combination with different color combo on the m&m's. My son helped me too so this was a fun and learning experiement. I would highly recommend this to anyone searching for a fun and easy project for school or parties or just plan fun!