sesame seeds (Entirely optional) yellow, green and red food coloring I. Preheat oven to temp. Called for on cake mix box.

Grease three 8-inch round cake pans. Prepare batter according to directions on box. Divide batter equally among 3 cake pans, bake 20-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in = pans

for 10 min.; remove. Cool on wire racks. Ii. Prepare fondant to be use= d

for lettuce, tomato and cheese decorations. Blend confect. Sugar, butte= r,

corn syrup with elec. Mixer. When mixture becomes too hard to mix, turn onto board and knead by hand until smooth. Divide into 3 pieces, 1 slig= htly

larger than other 2. Knead yellow color into largest piece (cheese), gr= een

into another piece (lettuce), red into 3rd piece (tomato). Wrap in plas= tic

wrap to prevent drying. Iii. Place one cooled cake layer on serving pla= te.

Frost with 1/2 can p-nut butter frosting (or other brownish-color frosting). This is Bottom Half of hamburger bun. Iv. Roll out green fondant on board dusted with confect. Sugar to a thickness of 1/8 in. Cut into 6 pieces. Shape/curl edges to resemble lettuce. Place on top = of

frosted layer, near outer edge, to look like lettuce. V. Roll out red fondant to 1/4 inch. Cut into rounds, use 2-inch cookie cutter. Cut eac= h

round in half. Place on lettuce near outer edge of frosted cake layer.= Vi.

Frost top/sides of 2nd cake layer w/chocolate frosting. Press chocolate sprinkles onto top and sides of layer by hand. Use two wide metal spatu= las

to place it over

the "tomato and lettuce"-topped bottom layer. This represents the "hamburger". Vii. Roll out the yellow "cheese" fondant into an 8-inch square. Place on top of hamburger layer so that it looks like a cheese slice. Viii. Place 3rd cake layer on top of "cheese", rounded side P>: = up.

Frost it w/remaining p-nut butter frosting, taking care not to get fros= ting

on other layers. This is the top half of the hamburger bun. Finish by sprinkling w/a few sesame sees (Optional). Makes 8-10 servings. Origina= l

recipe came from June 1983 issue of Seventeen Magazine. This recipe was posted originally by Al Cantu (PMJM84 °C) on 11/9/92. Shelly Nicklay