Guitar Cake

Ingredients

• 1  chocolate chip cookie mix thin
• 15 servings purple gel food coloring green yellow
• 1 stick xantham gum 
• 10 small gumdrops 
• 15 servings lime zest red
• 0.7 oz decorating gel 
• 18  baking apples are apples that have a sweet-tart balance and hold their shape when 
• 1 containers vanilla frosting 
• 1 box cake mix yellow
• 15 servings frangelico with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil (19xes)
• 15 servings frangelico with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil (19xes)

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• knife
• wire rack
• serrated knife

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350F (325F for dark or nonstick pan). Grease or spray bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan.
2. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan. Cool 10 minutes. Run knife around sides of pan to loosen cake; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Refrigerate or freeze cake about 1 hour or until firm.
3. Using serrated knife, cut rounded top off cake to level surface; place cake cut side down.
4. Cut 9x2-inch strip of cake as shown in diagram for guitar neck.
5. Cut body of guitar from remaining cake.
6. Place pieces on tray.
7. Place 1/2 cup frosting in small bowl. Stir in 4 to 6 drops green food color. Into remaining vanilla frosting, stir 6 drops yellow food color. Attach guitar neck to body with small amount of frosting. Frost guitar neck with a thin layer of green frosting and frost top and sides of guitar body with a thin layer of yellow frosting to seal in crumbs. Refrigerate or freeze cake 30 to 60 minutes to set frosting. Frost entire cake with same colors.
8. Press 3 gumdrops on each side of neck for tuning pegs. On neck, draw crosswise lines with decorating gel, 1 inch apart, for frets.
9. Place wafer cookie on center of body.
10. Place tart and tangy candies around wafer cookie.
11. Place stick of gum 1 inch under wafer cookie.
12. Place licorice on neck for strings. Press remaining gumdrops into frosting below gum stick. Store loosely covered.