Hershey's ® Gridiron Cake

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Hershey's ® Gridiron Cake

 

 

Just in time for Super Bowl Sunday, January 26, 2003! Chocolate sheet cake

decorated to look like a football field with chocolate Kisses and peanut butter

cups as the players.

 

 

Servings: 18

 

Ingredients:

1 cup water

1 cup butter

1/2 cup HERSHEY'S® Cocoa Powder

2 cups white sugar

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 eggs

3/4 cup sour cream

 

1 tablespoon HERSHEY'S® Cocoa Powder

1 (16 ounce) can vanilla frosting

3 drops green food coloring

1 drop red food coloring

3 drops yellow food coloring

1 (10 ounce) package HERSHEY'S® Premier White Chips

1 (8 ounce) package REESE'S PIECES® Candies

11 HERSHEY'S KISSES® Milk Chocolates

11 REESE'S® Peanut Butter Cups Miniatures

3 HERSHEY'S HUGS® Chocolates

6 HERSHEY'S® ROLO® Chocolate and Caramel Candy

2 TWIZZLERS® Strawberry Licorice Twists

 

 

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour 15-1/2 x10-1/2x1-inch disposable foil

baking pan or jelly-roll pan.

2. Combine water, butter and cocoa in medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat,

stirring occasionally, until mixture boils. Boil 1 minute. Remove from heat; set

aside.

3. Stir together sugar, flour, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs and

sour cream; beat until blended. Add cocoa mixture; beat just until blended

(batter will be thin). Pour into prepared pan.

4. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out

clean. Cool cake in pan on wire rack.

5. For chocolate frosting, stir cocoa into 1/3 cup frosting; stir until smooth.

Tint 1/3 cup frosting orange with 1 drop red food color and 2 drops yellow food

color; stir until blended. Tint remaining frosting green with 2 or 3 drops green

food color; stir until blended.

6. Mark " end zones " , 2 inches wide at each end of cake, using wooden pick; frost

one end zone with chocolate frosting and the other end zone with orange

frosting. Frost the area between end zones with green frosting; mark 5 yard

lines with wooden pick. Place white chips all across cake on yard lines.

7. Use white chips to spell out " HERSHEY'S " on chocolate end zone; use brown

Reese's Pieces on the goal line. Use yellow Reese's Pieces to spell out

" REESE'S " on orange end zone. Use orange Reece's Pieces on the goal line.

8. Remove wrappers from Kisses, peanut butter cups and Hugs. Arrange teams on

cake playing field, using Kisses as one team and peanut butter cups as second

team. Place Hugs as referee officials on the field.

9. Unwrap Rolos; for goal posts, stack 3 Rolos in the middle of each goal line

on each side of field. Shape strawberry twists into " U " shapes for goal posts.

" Glue " with frosting to top of each stack of Rolos.

 

 

 

 

 

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