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Hi, everyone!

Wanted to wish you all a Happy Mardi Gras and share my homemade Mardi Gras Cake recipe with you.

The idea is based on a birthday cake I made for Trevor one year. He requested a colorful cake and I found a great recipe where you needn’t bake a bunch of separate colored cakes. Everything goes in in one pan…and yet it comes out looking like a rainbow.

If you'd like to add a little plastic baby for luck (as is the tradition with a King Cake), feel free!

Mardi Gras Cake

Ingredients:

Cake:

• 1 box white cake mix

• Gel food coloring in the colors of purple, yellow/gold, and green

• Colored sugars and/or sprinkles

• Fondant (optional)

Cream Cheese Icing:

• 2 (8-oz) packages cream cheese, softened to room temperature

• 6 Tbsp butter

• 2 tsp vanilla

• 1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

Preparation:

Prepare the cake mix as directed. Divide the cake mix evenly into four smaller bowls. Keep one bowl white. Squeeze one drop of purple food coloring into the second bowl; one drop of yellow into the third bowl; and one drop of green into the last bowl.

Pour the white cake mix into baking pan. Then, then drop each additional colored batter into the pan. Bake the cake as directed. Cool on a wire rack.

To prepare the icing, combine the cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and confectioners' sugar in a mixing bowl. Beat with a stand or hand mixer until fluffy.

After the cake is completely cool, frost it, and then decorate it with the colored sugars and sprinkles. If desired, roll out the Fondant and use Mardi Gras-themed cookie cutters to make festive shapes.

This recipe was prepared with the KitchenAid 5-Quart 325-Watt Tilt-Head Stand Mixer with Flex Edge (K41660).

You’re Home with Jill is back tomorrow night at 5pm ET. I’ll see you then!

From my home to yours,
—Jill