Gridiron Cake

It’s so fun to decorate this easy snack cake with cream cheese frosting. —Sarah Farmer, Taste of Home Culinary Director

Prep: 45 min.

• Bake: 25 min. + cooling Makes: 20 servings

CAKE ²/3 cup butter, softened

13/4 cups sugar

1 Tbsp. vanilla extract

2 large eggs, room temperature 21/2 cups all-purpose flour

21/2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt

11/4 cups 2% milk

FROSTING 1 pkg. (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup butter, softened

33/4 cups confectioners’ sugar 1 Tbsp. 2% milk

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Green paste food coloring

DECORATION 2 goalposts (made from yellow bendable straws) Large gumdrops

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Grease a 17x12x1-in. half sheet foil cake pan. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla, then eggs, one at at time. Whisk flour, baking powder and salt; beat into creamed mixture alternately with the milk. Transfer to prepared pan.

2. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean,

25-30 minutes. Cool completely.

3. Beat cream cheese and butter.

Add sugar, milk and vanilla. Reserve

¹₄ cup of frosting for field markings. Tint the remainder; spread over cake. Pipe white yard lines and numbers. Add goalposts and gumdrops.

1 piece: 365 cal., 16g fat (9g sat. fat), 60mg chol., 255mg sod., 54g carb. (41g sugars, 0 fiber), 4g pro.