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Xylophone Cakes
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
14 Servings
Prep: 40 min.
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 minis
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 M&M's. For mallets, press a
miniature marshmallow into one end of each pretzel stick. Yield:
14 cakes.
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