Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 1 (9- x 5-inch) loaf pan with waxed paper, grease and flour. Reserve 16 Snickers. Unwrap remainder and roughly chop; set aside.
Prepare cake mix according to package instructions. Fold chopped Snickers into batter before pouring into prepared pan. Bake 50 to 60 minutes, until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Unmold cake and transfer to wire rack to cool completely.
Reserve 1 tablespoon chocolate frosting and put into resealable plastic bag. Snip one bottom corner and set bag aside.
Tint remaining vanilla frosting yellow; set aside.
Cut off top third of cake lengthwise. Place bottom piece on serving platter. Frost sides of cake with chocolate frosting, and top with yellow-tinted vanilla frosting, reserving 1 tablespoon. Spoon 1 tablespoon yellow frosting into another resealable plastic bag, snip a bottom corner and pipe decorative edge around top edge of cake.
Facing front of cake, arrange unwrapped candies across front area of yellow frosting. Let candies spill over edge.
Put on cake top at an angle, resting on candies arranged along front edge, so that “chest” looks slightly open. Carefully frost top with remaining chocolate frosting. Pull fork tines through chocolate frosting, creating wood-grain effect on cake.
Using photo as guide, decorate chest as follows:
•Line M&M’S on top and sides of chest to look like decorative bands.
•Press 1 unwrapped Twix bar on each side of chest as handles, and place 1 yellow M&M on ends of each handle (using a dot of chocolate frosting if necessary).
•Slightly flatten 1 yellow Starburst piece as a lock. Use chocolate frosting in resealable plastic bag to pipe keyhole in center of Starburst “lock.” Attach at center of front edge of lid.
•Sprinkle ground vanilla wafers around chest as “sand.” Scatter M&M’S, Twix candies, Snickers bars, M&M’S peanut candies and Starburst chews over “sand” as treasures.
All materials are courtesy of M&M’S Seasonal Brands.
This farm news was published in the July 5, 2006 issue of Farm World, serving Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee.
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