Instead of using sticky peanut oil, this tasty beef tenderloin fondue uses broth. Ideal meal for two, especially when served with a salad of blue cheese and hazelnuts.
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 large hamburger shaped cake |
Ingredients
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
- yellow paste food coloring
- brown paste food coloring
- ¾ cup prepared chocolate frosting
- 24 orange chewy fruit-flavored candy squares
- 12 leaf-shaped spearmint gumdrops
- 3 large red gumdrops
- 4 large white gumdrops
- 6 candy lime slices
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
Instructions
- Preheat oven according to cake mix directions. Butter and flour one 8 inch round and one 9 inch round cake pan and one 2 quart ovenproof bowl 8 inches in diameter.
- Prepare cake mixes. Pour 1 3/4 cups of the white mix into the 8 inch round cake pan, and the rest into the 2 quart bowl. Pour 1 3/4 cups of the chocolate mix into the 9 inch round pan.
- Bake 8 inch cake for 25 minutes, 9 inch cake for 20 minutes and bowl cake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted into centers comes out clean. Cool in pans on racks 10 minutes. Remove from pans; cool completely on racks.
- In separate small bowls, tint small amounts of vanilla frosting red and yellow, to use as ketchup and mustard. Tint remaining vanilla frosting light brown, using brown and yellow food coloring.
- For bun bottom, frost the 8 inch cake with light brown frosting.
- For hamburger patty, spread top and sides of 9 inch chocolate cake with chocolate frosting Lightly press all around sides of cake with folded paper towel, pulling towel straight out to create rough edge of burger. center cake on top of bun bottom.
- For cheese, arrange orange fruit chews in single layer on microwave-safe plate. Microwave on High 10-15 seconds or until slightly softened. With hands, press and flatten chews together to form 9 inch square. Place on top of hamburger patty. On work surface sprinkled with granulated sugar roll out 5 leaf-shaped gumdrops to 1/8 inch thickness to form 1 large lettuce leaf; repeat rolling with 6 more gumdrops to form another leaf. Arrange over cheese near edges of burger. For tomatoes, roll out red gumdrops individually to 1/8 inch thickness. Arrange over lettuce around burger edges. For onion rings, roll out white gumdrops to 1/8 inch thickness. With round cookie cutters or sharp knife cut out circles; cut 1/4 inch thick rings from circles with small cutters. Re-roll scraps to make additional rings; arrange rings over tomatoes. Arrange fruit-slice candies over onions for pickles. Pipe red and yellow icing around edges of burger for ketchup and mustard.
- For bun top: If necessary, trim bowl cake so that it will be flat on the bottom when inverted. Invert firm paper plate onto work surface. Center bowl cake, trimmed side down, on top of plate. Starting from the top, spread remaining light brown frosting in lines down sides of cake, turning plate after each section. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Carefully place on top of the cake.
Reviews
I made this recipe for my husbands birthday and everyone thought it was great! I made a brownie for the meat layer instead of chocolate cake and used shredded coconut with green food coloring for lettuce instead of gum drops. As a side I baked a yellow cake. Once it was cooled I crumbled it up and mixed with melted white chocolate. I used my hands to roll the cake into little balls shaped like tater tots and drizzled white chocolate with red food coloring over the top like ketchup. Quite the meal! 🙂
Tastes like a hamburger and it is so good I might need REAL ketchup on it and mustard but yet it is so SWEET I wonder why
This was awesome! Mine came out really nice. I did the first part as written except I used yellow cake mix instead of white. Then for the buns I used vanilla frosting and mixed it with peanut butter, as others suggested, to give it the tanish color. I made lettuce and cheese with colored fondant, and I cut up pieces of red fruit roll-ups to make the tomatoes. Then topped with sesame seeds. Thanks for a cool idea for my burger loving fiance!
I made this for my meat lover boyfriend’s birthday. Everyone thought it was so neat looking! The lettuce and cheese was hard to make!!! It didn’t turn out much like cheese and everyone thought it was bacon! I microwaved the orange candies for 15 seconds and burned my fingers when I tired to smoosh them together. I suggest 8 seconds for two orange candies or 3 mint candies. I made the burger out of brownies and used chocolate stuffed oreo cookies (about 5) mashed in chocolate frosting. The patty looked the best! I also used chopped pecans for the seeds. Definitely making this again and hopefully will look a little bit better!
This cake turned out amazing as it looked, and tasted even better, but I never actually got the cheese down, and that is the reason I put four stars. Otherwise it looked amazing, and can DEFINITELY serve 12, the only other problem wasn’t even with the recipe it was just that I didn’t have things like a 2 quart ovenproof bowl that was eight inches in diameter, and it doesn’t tell you what kind of orange chewy fruit-flavored squares, or leaf-shaped spearmint gumdrops, or any candy lime slices. I definitely got the wrong brand because the cheese didn’t work out very well at all, but I improvised and it worked out fine. Another problem with the cheese was that it says to microwave for 10-15 seconds, but I tried that and it didn’t work so I went for thirty seconds, then a minute then two minutes, then resorted to actually putting it in the oven and baking it. But I didn’t get orange chewy fruit-flavored squares, I actually got these orange gummy slices. I also didn’t have any brown food-coloring so I made some kind of creamy frosting, and mixed in some chocolate frosting and it worked out perfectly. I also want to tell you that if you plan on making this (which you should be cause it is amazing!!!) then you should be prepared because this is harder than it looks, but once you have everything if you go one step at a time, then it should work out very well. Whoever made this recipe up must of been amazingly creative! Also it it probably serves more than twelve in the head. :)!
I haven’t made this yet but I can’t wait to make it. I don’t understand how people are so mad about the omission of the vanilla frosting. If you read the directions you’ll know you need it. Who doesn’t read the directions first before deciding to make a recipe? Seems logical to read everything from the first ingredient to the last word before you decide to make it and then shop for the ingredients. Duh.
Umm… wow. Made this for my husband’s friend’s bachelor party, and everyone loved it. Very easy to make on my time-crunched schedule. WMen and their hamburgers.
i changed the rcipe a lot…i used 1 yellow cake mix and 1 brownie mix. the brownie in the center of the 2 layers of yellow cake looks just like a giant hamburger patty. i bought colored chocolates from michael’s and melted them to make the cheese and hamburger toppings. i made this for my son’s 12th birthday. everyone was impressed. lots of fun to make!
Pretty difficult! but still very delicious! I left the sesame seeds because I didn’t have’em in hand! I used flax seeds instead. Thnx for tis awesome Recipe my Recipe Gail !
Great Idea, I just improvised and made “mini burgers” I made white cupcakes (sliced in half) and chocolate cupcakes, (using slices of the chocolate cupcakes as the hamburger patties) Then I made buttercream frosting and colored it according to the condiments.. I didn’t bother to frost the tops.. just sprinkled with sesame seeds. I did however place a gummy pickle inside each one.. Coincidentally I found a bag of gummy cheeseburger parts at toys-r-us.
Big hit at the BBQ! Everyone asked me if I was a professional cake decorator and it made my day. I didn’t melt candy or anything, and instead used all frosting. The most difficult part was putting cookies on the chocolate frosting for a burnt look effect, because all the crumbs fell into the bottom “bun” and onto the ketchup/mustard. Anyway, it turned out great and was really tasty!
This was a fun cake to make! A little stressful in the beginning because I didn’t have any brown food coloring for the bun, so I used a little chocolate frosting in the vanilla frosting. I also used some green dye in the coconut flakes for lettuce and only did the ketchup and mustard. For the seeds on top of the bun, I used slivered almonds. Brought on great excitement in my son’s classroom.
I love it. So creative.
This is so fun to do, especially with kids, thanks so much for posting it!!!
Awesome!
I made this cake last minute for a pool party. I didn’t take very long to make it and it was very easy to do. I didn’t add all of the topping listed. The only toppings I used were lettuce, cheese and mayo. Everything was buttercream except for the cheese I used fondant. I also made french fries out of sugar cookie dough and red frosting diluted with piping gel for dipping sauce.
I surprised my son at his 13th Birthday Cookout with this cake. I wasn’t sure that I could pull it off because I can bake a great cake but I’m not the most confident decorator… I did it!! I took the advice of another reviewer and frosted it with Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting (perfect color, and YUM!) and I also baked the “bun” in a 3 quart casserole dish (for about an hour on 325)then cut it to form the top/bottom bun. Forming the candies into veggies was much easier than I thought it was going to be. I also made “french fries” by cutting cake in strips and icing it with “ketchup”. FUN! Thanks for the recipe!
used fondant to make tomatoes/lettuce.made choc. cake and crumbled it up, frosted middle cake(hamburger) & rolled it in the choc. cake crumbs (this made the hambuger look more like hamburger meat) BIG HIT with kids and adults alike!
Fun. Made for a friends birthday that loves hamburgers. I used coconut for the shredded lettuce and dyed the rest. I also put sesame seeds on the to bun.
This is by-far the most fun I’ve ever had making a cake! Thanks SO much for posting this recipe! 🙂 I think next time I make it I will try using fondant instead of candies for the toppings. Someone mentioned in their review to put crushed oreos in the chocolate frosting on the “burger” part of cake – that was awesome!! Really added texture! Great Idea! For the cheese, I used Peachy-O’s candies (i washed off sugar, and microwaved to melt) then coated small square pan with cooking spray – dusted with white sugar, and poured melted peachy-o’s in (sugar was to keep candy from sticking again). That came out of pan nicely, and square like slice of cheese. My white gumdrops for onions didn’t turn out, so I omitted. Will add next time, when using fondant. Thanks again!
I have made this 3 times and each time I got wonderful compliments. My daughter made it for an art class project and won first prize. It takes time and effort but it is well worth it. Kids will LOVE it! It’s a great cake, perfect for a cook-out or kids birthday.