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Tank Cake



My brother requested a tank cake for his birthday, and this one is super easy to make! To start out, I used 2 boxes of cake mix. One of them was Duncan Hines butter golden, and the other was Dark chocolate fudge.


I mixed up the boxes in separate bowls, and I dyed the butter golden cake green, and I added black food coloring to the chocolate to make it black. Then I poured my cake batter into a 13x9 inch cake pan, and a 8x8 inch cake pan. I alternated chocolate, yellow, chocolate, yellow, etc.. then marbled it together to make a sort of camouflage pattern.



I baked the cakes in the other according to the back of the cake box, but I had to add a little more time, so I think I ended up cooking them for about 45 minutes. Once they were cooled and out of their pans, I prepared my cake board using a cookie sheet lined with tin foil. I would of used a normal cake board, but I didn't have any.


Meanwhile, I took my icing, and dyed it green. To get the shade I wanted, I had to add a little black.



I crumb coated and chilled my cakes, then iced them with my green icing. Then I stacked my cakes on top of one another, trying to center my square cake in the middle of my rectangle cake.



For the tank's wheels, I used Oreo cookies. I lined them up on the bottom of the cake on both sides,


Finally, for the gun, I used a long pretzel stick.



And the cake is done! That is how easy it is to make a tank cake. I personalized it for my brother, or you can leave it as it is.






~ The Junior Baker





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