Mermaid Cakesicles Recipe

Instructions

For Cake

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix, flour, sugar, and salt.
• In the bowl of a mixer, mix together the egg whites and vanilla, water, milk and oil.
• Mix on low for about 10 seconds.
• Slowly add the dry mix a little at a time. Mixing on low until everything is combined.
• Add sour cream and mix well.
• Pour into a 9x13-inch pan.
• Bake 30 - 35 minutes or until done.
• Remove from oven and let cool.

For Icing

• With in electric mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth.
• Slowly add powdered sugar while mixing.
• Add vanilla.
• Slowly add milk 1/2 a tablespoon at a time and mix until icing is smooth.

To make and decorate

• Crumble cake into crumbs and mix icing into cake crumbs until a dough forms.
• After the cake crumbs and icing is mixed into a dough, form cakesicles by hand and place them on a sheet pan (or something small enough to fit into your fridge or freezer).
• Add popsicle sticks and place into fridge or freezer for 1-2 hours or until super cold.
• While cakesicles are getting cold, make the candy mermaid tails.
• Melt the purple blueberry lemonade candy melts according to the package directions.
• Fill the mermaid mold with candy melts and tap to release air bubbles.
• Place into fridge for 10 minutes. Pop mermaid tails out of mold and continue process until enough mermaid tails have been made.
• Melt white chocolate according to package directions. Melt blue as well in a separate bowl.
• Drizzle some of the blue over the white melted candy and and dip each cakesicle into melted chocolate.
• Lay on a flat surface, add mermaid candy tail and sprinkles.
• Let cakesicles lay on a flat surface to harden.