Serves: 14
Total Calories: 133

1 2/3 cups ready-to-spread frosting vanilla, or Buttercream Frosting
8 drops food colors blue
1 9 x 5 x 3-inch pound cake
1 container (2 3/4 oz.) chocolate decors
4 peppermint candies
4 fruit-flavored doughnut-shaped hard candies
2 gumdrops yellow gumdrops
2 small red gumdrops
1 12 x 9-inch foil-covered cake board
2 gumdrops purlple gumdrops small or black
4 licorice whip 4-inch lengths
6 licorice whip 1-inch lengths
2 licorice whip 1 1/2 -inch lengths

To prepare the frosting: Tint frosting with blue food color until blue. Cover and set aside until ready to use.

To prepare the wheels: Cut the pound cake as shown below (A). Set "body" of car aside. Using the two cut-out cake pieces, cut two wheels from each with a 2-inch biscuit cutter. Trim each wheel to 1 1/4 -inch thickness. Holding each wheel with a wooden skewer, frost one side and edge lightly with frosting roll in chocolate decors to completely coat. Place on waxed paper, unfrosted-side down, to dry. Using a dab of frosting, fasten one of the hard peppermint candies to each wheel for a hubcap.

To make the head lights: Using a small dab of frosting, fasten one of the yellow gumdrops to each of two doughnut-shaped hard candies.

To make the tail lights: Using a small dab of frosting, fasten one of the red gumdrops to each of two remaining doughnut-shaped hard candies.

To prepare the cake: Brush loose crumbs from surface of body of car with a soft pastry brush. Place on cake board. Smoothly frost all surfaces with frosting.

To decorate the cake: Before the frosting sets, attach wheels to body of car. Attach head lights to front of car and tail lights to back of car. Use black or purple gumdrops for door handles. Use 4-inch lengths of licorice for top and bottom of front and rear windshields and use 1-inch lengths for side and center lines of windows (B). Use 1 1/2 -inch lengths of licorice for windshield wipers.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 14
Total Calories: 133
Calories from Fat: 43

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