Boo the Ghost

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Boo the Ghost Photo
Boo the Ghost
Yield: Makes 12 to 14 servings
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Ingredients:
1
(13X9-inch) cake, completely cooled

2
cups Light & Fluffy Frosting (recipe follows)

2
black licorice drops or jelly beans

1
(19X13) cake board, cut in half crosswise and covered

Plastic spiders (optional)



Preparation:
1.
If cake top is rounded, trim horizontally with long serrated knife. Trim sides of cake.

2.
Using photo as guide, draw ghost outline on 13X9-inch piece of waxed paper. Cut pattern out and place on cake. Cut out ghost. Place on prepared cake board.

3.
Prepare Light & Fluffy Frosting. Frost ghost, swirling frosting. Arrange licorice drops for eyes and spiders as shown in photo.





This recipe appears in: Halloween