1,440 Minutes: Litterbox Cake!

Once a month I get together with my Mom and her friends for "old ladies night." Some times we play games, some times we go out to eat, and almost every month we celebrate a birthday. We've been doing this for several years and I tend to make the birthday cake.

This month we had a crab feast in honor of Jayne's birthday and I decided to make a litter box cake. She has a strong sense of humor (necessary for this cake) and a cat. Ironically she had also spent the week before our get together caring for her son's five cats while he was on vacation!

The idea for the cake came from allrecipes.com Essentially all you need is a chocolate cake mix, white cake mix, two boxes of instant vanilla pudding, vanilla cream cookies, green food coloring, and a bag of tootsie rolls. It's also nice and extra gross to buy a real litter box and scooper from the dollar store. Unfortunately I could only get the scooper and I just bought a large metal pan in place of the litter box.

Bake both cakes according to the box directions. Prepare pudding according to directions. Finely chop/process the cookies. Reserve 1/4 cup of the cookies and mix with green food coloring, save for later. Once cakes are completely cool, crumble them into your biggest bowl. Mix them well using the pudding and half of the remaining cookie crumbs. You won't need all of the pudding, you just want the cake to be moist. Place cake mixture into pan. Microwave tootsie rolls and make litter box ornaments (poop). Put half in the cake as surprises. Sprinkle remaining half of cookies on top. Put the other half of the ornaments on the top. It's really effective to have one hanging off the side. Finally, sprinkle green crumbs on top (although you may want to roll the ornaments in the green crumbs as well).