family fun magazine's bike cake

Covered with cereal gravel and strewn with doughnut-hole boulders, this multitiered mountain is sure to win fans at a party with a dirt bike, X Games, or Motocross motif.

4 (9-inch round) cakes
3 (16-oz.) cans chocolate frosting
7 straws
Chocolate wafer cookies, crushed
Pretzel rods
Chocolate cereal (we used Cocoa Puffs)
Chocolate doughnut holes
Green licorice
Fruit by the Foot
Thin pretzels
Toy dirt bike and rider

1. Trim the cake tops flat. Cut 1 cake in half, and cut one third from another cake.
2. Assemble the cake as shown, frosting between each layer: Stack the 2 rounds, add the two-thirds section, and insert 3 straws, spacing them about 1-1/2 inches apart. Add 1 cake half (you can save the other for snacking) and insert 2 more straws. Add the cake third and the last 2 straws. Frost the entire cake.
3. Sprinkle on a cookie dirt trail, then add pretzel rods, cereal, doughnut holes, and licorice for log trail borders, rocks, boulders, and plants.
4. To make the finish-line banner, cut 2 pennant strips from Fruit by the Foot and wrap the ends around 2 pretzel rods, pinching them in place. For trail markers, wrap Fruit by the Foot flags around thin pretzels. Push the banner and flags into the cake, then add a toy dirt bike and rider as shown.

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