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Valentine's Day Cake

You can use cake mix, some red food coloring, and a few other ingredients to make a gorgeous Valentine's Day cake.

1 cake

Ingredients:

One package white cake mix
Red candy sprinkles or heart-shaped candies
Red food coloring
Whipped cream or frosting

Directions:

Help your child prepare the cake mix and pour it into the pan(s).
Squeeze a few drops of red food coloring into the batter and swirl it through the batter with a knife.
Bake the cake and let it cool completely.
Frost it with whipped cream or frosting and top it with red candy sprinkles or heart-shaped candies.

Copyright � 2001 by Patricia Kuffner. Excerpted from The Children's Busy Book with permission of its publisher, Meadowbrook Press.

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