5 days ...

until the best month of the year!

To wet your appetite for the month of October, here's a little Halloween dessert for you to mix up! Kitty Litter Cake!
And here is an appetizing picture of the finished product:



And here are are the ingredients:

• 1 spice or German chocolate cake mix
• 1 white cake mix
• 2 large packages of vanilla instant pudding, prepared
• 1 large package of vanilla sanwich cookies
• green food coloring
• 12 small Tootsie Rolls
• 1 NEW kitty litter pan
• 1 NEW plastic kitty litter pan liner
• 1 NEW pooper scooper

And here are the instructions:

• Prepare cake mixes and bake according to directions (any size pans).
• Prepare pudding mix and chill until ready to assemble.
• Crumble white sandwich cookies in small batches in food processor, scraping often.
• Set aside all but about 1/4 cup. To the 1/4 cup cookie crumbs, add a few drops green food coloring and mix until completely colored.
• When cakes are cooled to room temperature, crumble into a large bowl. Toss with half the remaining white cookie crumbs and the chilled pudding. Important: mix in just enough of the pudding to moisten it. You don't want it too soggy. Combine gently.
• Line a new, clean kitty litter box.
• Put the cake/pudding/cookie mixture into the litter box.
• Put three unwrapped Tootsie rolls in a microwave safe dish and heat until soft and pliable. Shape ends so they are no longer blunt, curving slightly. Repeat with 3 more Tootsie rolls bury them in the mixture.
• Sprinkle the other half of cookie crumbs over top. Scatter the green cookie crumbs lightly on top of everything -- this is supposed to look like the chlorophyll in kitty litter.
• Heat 3 Tootsie Rolls in the microwave until almost melted. Scrape them on top of the cake; sprinkle with cookie crumbs.
• Spread remaining Tootsie Rolls over the top; take one and heat until pliable, hang it over the side of the kitty litter box, sprinkling it lightly with cookie crumbs.
• Place the box on a newspaper and sprinkle a few of the cookie crumbs around for a truly disgusting effect!