Taco Cake

For Jeff's (aka 'Taco') birthday I made him a taco shaped cake! Corny and silly, but look how cute it turned out. This wasn't hard to do at all, you do not need cake decorating skills to make this one. 

Chances are you don't have a brother-in-law who goes by 'Taco', but how fun for Cinco de Mayo, or any fiesta themed party!

• Bake 2 cake layers - I made a yellow cake and put 1/2 the batter in one 9" pan, then added cocoa powder to the remaining batter to make it chocolate. Bake according to package directions. Cool completely.
• Make a batch of buttercream frosting (or used canned); leave a spoonful white, color some yellowish like a taco shell, and add cocoa powder to some to make chocolate. 
• I used oreo crumbs to resemble ground burger. Mix the crumbs with some chocolate frosting so you'll be able to stick the 'burger' onto the cake. 
• Put just a few very finely ground crumbs into the yellow frosting to create a more 'authentic' looking shell.
• Cut up red candy (I used twizzlers) for tomatoes, green fruit rollups for lettuce, add yellow food color to shredded coconut for the cheese. 

Cut the layers in half, you need 2 yellow cake halves but only one of the chocolate halves. The yellow halves are the 'taco shell' and the chocolate layer is the 'meat' filling. Frost the entire chocolate half with chocolate frosting, spread frosting on one side of each yellow halve; stand them up and push together forming a 'taco'. 

Frost the 2 yellow halves with the taco shell yellow frosting. Press the oreo crumbs into the chocolate cake so it looks like burger inside the taco shell. Add the tomato, lettuce, and cheese on the top; then add a big scoop of white frosting on the top resembling sour cream. 

Wait - I just realize looking at the photos that I forgot to add the 'sour cream'! Oops! Oh well, still cute.