Best Inchworm Cake Recipes

INCHWORM CAKE

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Inch your way into a fun celebration with an easy-to-make and fun-to-eat cake!

Provided by Betty Crocker Kitchens

Categories Dessert

Time 2h28m

Yield 16

Number Of Ingredients 9

Ingredients

1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ cake mix (any flavor)
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
8 drops green food color
1 1/2 containers Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting
Tray or cardboard (19x14 inches), covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil
5 M&M's® chocolate candies
2 vanilla wafer cookies
2 small pretzel sticks
24 gumdrops

Steps:

Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Make, bake and cool cake as directed on box for 12-cup fluted tube cake pan.
Cut cake as shown in diagram A. Freeze pieces uncovered 1 hour for easier frosting. Stir food color into frosting. Arrange cake pieces on tray to form inchworm as shown in diagram B. Frost cake, attaching pieces with frosting.
Attach one M&M's™ chocolate candy to each vanilla wafer with frosting; attach to end of cake for eyes. Press 3 candies into frosting for mouth. Gently push 1 pretzel stick into flat end of gumdrop; repeat. Insert pretzels stick into cake for antennae. Arrange remaining gumdrops along edge for feet. Store loosely covered.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 340, Carbohydrate 51 g, Cholesterol 40 mg, Fat 3, Fiber 0 g, Protein 1 g, SaturatedFat 3 g, ServingSize 1 Serving, Sodium 290 mg, Sugar 35 g, TransFat 2 1/2 g

INCHWORM CAKE

Inchworm Cake image

This little guy was a challenge! Not to make, but to get him where he needed to be. My nephews compete in a fishing tournament every year in Pennsylvania near my parents camp and we had to deliver it there. It's a 2 hour fun drive. (You can see where his icing is melting.) In addition, I thought I had gumdrops and didn't, so we...

Provided by Kimberly Biegacki

Categories Cakes

Time 30m

Number Of Ingredients 9

Ingredients

1 box box betty crocker supermoist cake mix (i used lemon flavor)
8 drops green food color (i made two different greens for added depth to the inchworm)
1 1/2 containers betty crocker rich & creamy vanilla frosting
5 candy-coated chocolate candies
2 vanilla wafer cookies (for the eyes)
2 sm pretzel sticks (for antennas)
24 gumdrops (i used chewie cherry candies)
i crushed graham crackers for the dirt but it would be better if it had been oreos or dark chocolate cookies for dirt.
i also added some gummy worms to the dirt

Steps:

1. Heat oven to 350 F (325 F for dark or nonstick pan). Bake and cool cake as directed on box for 12-cup fluted tube cake pan. (I just used my bundt pan)
2. Lay out cake and cut about 1/3 or 1/4 off the side, depending how high you want his body to be. Then, take the piece you cut off and cut it in two for the front and back of Inchworm. Freeze the pieces of cake for at least an hour for easier frosting. Attach the pieces with frosting.
3. The rest of the pieces that you place on the Inchworm depend on your creativity. When I was making the antennas I didn't have the gumdrops so I used black olives. For me, it was whatever worked for the moment.
4. If you have any problems with the assembling you can check out the diagrams on www.bettycrocker.com and search for Inchworm cake.