Knight's Castle Cake

Ingredients

• 1 box cake mix yellow
• 1 serving food coloring blue
• 12 oz fluffy frosting white
• 0.5 cup brown sugar packed
• 4  gumdrops 
• 4  fruit (from variety pack of different colors)
• 0.3 cup round buttery crackers goldfish-shaped
• 1 serving clear rock candy 
• 0.5  chocolate with or without almonds, if desired

Equipment

• frying pan
• oven
• knife
• wire rack
• toothpicks
• cake form
• aluminum foil
• kitchen scissors
• serrated knife

Directions

1. Heat oven to 325°F. Generously grease Nordic Ware® Castle Bundt® cake pan with shortening and lightly flour, or spray pan with baking spray with flour.
2. Make cake batter as directed on box.
3. Pour batter into pan.
4. Bake 33 to 43 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Using a long serrated knife, trim cake even with top of pan, if necessary. Turn pan upside down onto cooling rack; remove pan. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
5. Place cake on 12- to 15-inch serving plate, tray or piece of cardboard covered with foil. Stir 8 to 10 drops blue food color into frosting.
6. Spread frosting around base of cake to look like water.
7. Sprinkle brown sugar around frosting on plate to look like sand.
8. Place gumdrops on top of each tower.
9. Cut long flag-shaped pieces out of fruit snack with sharp knife or kitchen scissors.
10. Roll fruit snack around 4 toothpicks to make flags; insert toothpicks into gumdrops. Arrange crackers and rock candy in frosting, and add chocolate bar, upside down, for drawbridge as shown. Store loosely covered.