The Easiest Cake Ever..... and it is Minecraft!

I don't know if your elementary school kiddo is like mine but mine is completely obsessed with Minecraft,  So when he asked to have a Minecraft birthday party I wasn't surprised but I did silently die inside...... Have you seen those characters??? Oh my goodness there is so many of them and for being so basic some are very complicated!  Let me tell you, I was so not looking forward to that cake!  I went to Pinterest for inspirations and found tons of Minecraft cakes, many I do not have enough talent for and then I found a couple like this one!

Video tutorial
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http://www.minecraftcakes.com/10-epic-minecraft-cakes/

 I fell in love with the simplicity of these cakes and thought "Hey! I can actually do that!"
and let me tell you...... it was even easier than I thought it would be.  Seriously this could be your first cake ever and it will come out AMAZING! That is how easy it is.

I made my cake from the box because I was running late! Dunkin Hines from the box cakes are the BOMB! I have made cakes from scratch and their blew mine away :( It was moist and so yummy. 

 I just baked it in a normal baking dish according to the directions - make sure to flour the pan!

Once it was finished, I let it cool and flipped it out the the pan, floured it again to make sure it did not stick and put it back into the pan.  Since I made the cake the night before, I covered it and put it into the fridge until the next morning.

Make your Jello according to the box & put in the fridge. 

Pay close attention to the color, one of the blue boxes is actually a red color! So don't grab that one :)

Cut off the edges to make a rectangle

Cut the cake into rows to make squares.  I counted out everyone coming and made sure there was enough for everyone coming and made slightly larger ones for the parents.

We tried every plate, dish, baking tray and platter we own and none of them worked to put the cake on so we used the lid of a paper box and covered it in foil and taped it to the box. Worked great with our short time frame, if you are doing it I would probably suggest buying a cardboard cake box or ghetto rig a box like us :)

The one part of the cake that has me stumped was the grass.  I had seen shredded coconut but seriously what child do you know that actually likes coconut? not mine at least! I thought about the candy grass from easter but my son's birthday is in February so I was out of luck for that!  I walked up and down the store's aisles looking for a tip that might work and then I saw this..

and it worked out AMAZING for the grass and was pretty delicious too.  It took one can to frost the cake like shown and then we took one more can with us to the party and frosted the pieces as we served them.  Make sure to stack the blocks with the biggest on the bottom and don't frost them until you are happy with how it looks. I frosted the pieces before the jell-o and rice krispies and I would suggest you wait until you have everything in place before you frost any of the pieces.  I had to move and messed up the frosting on a few pieces because once I added everything it did not fit.

I used this recipe  Perfect Rice Krispies for the Rice Krispies and it was fantastic! I would make them as you are putting the cake together so they do not get hard and stay squishy and yummy!!  Cut them into blocks when they are warm, not fully cooled down because it makes it easier to make them into the right square shape if you do. Just squish the sides where necessary.

Now it is time to cut the Jell-o and add it any way you want.  Now the easiest part of the whole cake was having my son choose which Minecraft toys he wanted on his cake- he chose his legos which were super easy because of the lego plates!  Make sure to wash they really, really good and I put a piece of foil to add stability and another layer of cleanliness for my crazy husband. I did our placement solely on how I could get his Minecraft legos to fit on top :)

I think it turned out pretty great and it was seriously the easiest cake to serve! 

Which is always handy during the always chaotic birthday parties and my friends who are on diets loved the Jell-o option.