Street Taco Mini Cakes

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

• Chocolate cake mix
• Chocolate frosting
• Whoopie pie molds
• White, yellow and medium brown fondant
• Circle cookie cutter
• Wilton green icing
• Brown jimmies
• Red heart sprinkles
• Rolling pin
• Parchment paper

DIRECTIONS:

1. Mix preferred chocolate cake mix, bake in whoopie pie molds. Once baked and cooled, cut each cake in half.
2. Cover cake in chocolate frosting and dip edges in brown jimmies set on parchment paper with flat side down.
3. Decorate curved top of half circle cake with green icing to create lettuce.
4. On another piece of parchment, roll out yellow fondant with rolling pin. Cut into narrow strips to create a shredded cheese look. Use the yellow strips of fondant to sprinkle on top of green icing.
5. Add red heart sprinkles on top of “cheese" and “lettuce".
6. Add various size pieces of brown fondant to white fondant that has been rolled out to create a tortilla look. Roll fondant again to combine the two colors.
7. Use circle cookie cutter to cut out tortilla shapes.
8. Place cake halves in center of fondant cutout. Fold over sides of fondant to create a taco shell.

JOANN HACKS:

• Use crumbled pieces of brown fondant to sprinkle onto white fondant and then roll out. This will create the look of a tortilla shell.