Things You'll Need:
- 1 package yellow cake mix
- 1 1/4 cups water
- 1/3 cup oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 can vanilla frosting
- 1 tuble black icing
- Food coloring in yellow, red and blue
- Toothpicks
- Skewer
- 2 blue candy-coated chocolate pieces such as M&Ms
- 2 large yellow gumdrops
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Step 1
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a one and a half quart oven-safe bowl, and two large ten ounce and one small six ounce custard cup. Combine cake mix, water, oil and eggs in a large mixing bowl. Pour one-half cup of batter into each large ten ounce custard cup. One-third cup of batter into the small six ounce custard cup. Pour the rest into the oven-safe bowl. Place in the oven. Put the bowl in first. Make sure the custard cups are in the front.
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Step 2
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, then remove. Cool on wire rack for 15 minutes. Bake cake in bowl for 50 to 55 minutes, or until a toothpick can be inserted and removed without any traces of batter. Place on wire rack and let cool for 30 minutes.
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Step 3
Prepare one-half cup of white frosting. (Put aside a half teaspoon for later use.) Place in medium bowl with yellow food coloring. Mix well until frosting appears "rubber ducky yellow."
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Step 4
Slice the tops of the cakes (removed from the custard cups) so each is flat on top. Cut an inch of cake off the top of the large bowl and save for later. Place the cake (taken from the bowl) on a platter flat side down. This will be the duck's body. Cut the smallest cake in half. These will be wings. Attach the wings to the body with toothpicks.
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Step 5
Frost one side of one of the larger custard bowl cakes with yellow frosting. Press the flat side of the second larger custard bowl cake to it to form the duck's head. Attach the head to the body with a skewer. Cut two one-inch triangles from the reserved slice of cake to make tail feathers. Use frosting to stick the feathers to the body. Use toothpicks as necessary.
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Step 6
Frost the cake with the yellow frosting. When finished, retrieve the spoonful of white frosting that was set aside earlier to spread on each side of the head. The white will be used to make the duck's eyes, so place a blue candy in the center of each. Outline with black icing.
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Step 7
Stir red and yellow food color into the three tablespoons of frosting. Flatten the gumdrops and cut into two large triangles to make a beak for the duck. Attach the triangles to the duck's head using toothpicks. Frost with orange frosting.
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Step 8
Add blue food color to the remaining frosting. Mix well. Frost the platter to give the appearance that your duck is swimming in water. Remember, your little ducky should be in the center of the blue frosting.
