Elephant Cake
Big ears, big trunk, big fun! This cake tastes great any way you cut it!
Prep time: 30 min.
Baking time: 50 min.
Decoration time: 30 min.
Difficulty: Challenging
What you'll need:
- For the cookie ears and tusks
- 1 18-oz. roll refrigerated cookie dough
- 2/3 cup flour
- 1 cookie sheet
- Parchment paper
- Aluminum Foil
- Shortbread cookies (optional)
- Printable template
- For the cake
- 1 bag SNICKERS® Brand MINIS®
- 1 bag M&M’S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies
- 1 18.25-oz. box chocolate cake mix
- 2 16-oz. cans vanilla frosting
- Black food coloring
- 1 large marshmallow
- 2 8-inch round cake pans
- Spatula
What to do:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Knead the flour into the cookie dough, and roll it out to 1/4-inch thickness. Using the printable template, cut out 2 ears and 2 tusks. Crinkle 2 pieces of aluminum foil and place on the prepared cookie sheet pan. Lay the ears on top of the foil to give it a wavy appearance. Arrange the tusks, flat, on the cookie sheet.
- Bake the tusks for approximately 10-12 minutes and the ears for 12-15 minutes, or until golden. Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely.
- Meanwhile, grease and flour the cake pans. Reserve 12 SNICKERS® Brand MINIS® and roughly chop 2 cups. Prepare the cake mix according to the package instructions and divide the batter evenly between prepared cake pans. Sprinkle the chopped SNICKERS® Brand MINIS® over the batter.
- Bake for approximately 33-36 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack and cool for 15 minutes. Invert, remove pans and let cake cool completely.
- Tint the vanilla frosting gray with a touch of black food coloring. Stack the cake layers with a thin layer of frosting in between them. Completely frost the cake.
- Using the photograph as guide, arrange 6 unwrapped SNICKERS® Brand MINIS® on the cake for the trunk and cover them with frosting. Cut the marshmallow in half and place sticky side up onto the cake for eyes and top each with a brown M&M'S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies for pupils and eyelashes. Arrange the tusks on either side of the trunk
- Spread the ears with frosting and arrange them on either side of the cake. Stack 2 or 3 of the reserved unwrapped SNICKERS® Brand MINIS® under each ear as additional support to hold up the ears.
- If you like, frost the top of some purchased shortbread cookies and decorate with M&M'S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies and scatter them around the elephants.







