jukeboxRock around the clock with a vintage jukebox

from the 1950s! This cake looks way more complicated than it really is because the decorations are so detailed.

Once the colorful licorice twists and the rest of the candies are placed, it’s just a matter of accenting

the decorations with piped frosting and getting your cake groove on.

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jukeboxServeS 40 to 50LeveL of difficuLty: 2

special tools 1 (11½-inch) dinner plate

1 (13½ × 20½-inch) cake board

Small offset spatula

Small rolling pin

1 round toothpick

ingredients 1 (12 × 16-inch) sheet cake (½ sheet)

with chocolate frosting

3¾ cups chocolate frosting (2½ 16-ounce cans)

1½ cups vanilla frosting (1 16-ounce can)

Paste or gel paste food coloring: black (See SOurCeS, Page 201)

Cornstarch, for dusting

3 Tootsie Fruit rolls: 1 green, 1 orange, and 1 pink

1 (5-ounce) package Haribo Wheels, black licorice flavor

3 large (2.25-ounce) Tootsie rolls (each 6 inches long)

2 large (12.4-ounce) bags Twizzlers rainbow Twists

1 (2-ounce) package air Heads Xtremes Sweetly Sour Belts, rainbow Berry flavor

4 crème wafer cookies (each 2½ inches long), strawberry flavor

1 rope Twizzlers Pull ’n’ Peel, cherry flavor

3 large gumdrops: 2 yellow and 1 red

1 (1.5-ounce) box jujubes

2 giant Chewy SweeTarts: 1 red and 1 green

1 tablespoon confetti sprinkles, rainbow color

1  prepare the cake

Remove the frosting decorations from the sheet cake (see page 14). To make the top arc, put the dinner plate facedown on the cake, with the edges meeting at the top center, and score a line around the top half of the plate. Remove the plate, cut along the line with a knife, and discard the trimmings. Trim the cake board (see page 15). Put the cake, on its trimmed board, on a 13 × 20½-inch cake board and attach with glue.

In a medium bowl, stir 2¼ cups chocolate frosting until smooth. Using an offset spatula, frost the cake. Dip the spatula in hot water, shake off the excess, and smooth the frosting. Clean up the cake board and refrigerate the cake.

In another bowl, tint ¾ cup vanilla frosting gray with black food coloring. Spoon the gray frosting into a zip-top plastic bag and cut ¼ inch off the tip; set aside. To make the piping more manageable, fill 2 more plastic bags with ½ cup chocolate frosting each, and cut ¼ inch off the tips; set aside.

2  make the records

Dust a work surface with cornstarch, and roll out, separately, the green, orange, and pink Tootsie Fruit Rolls. Using an empty plastic water bottle, stamp out 2 rounds each of green and orange, and 3 rounds of pink. Gently press each round onto the center of a licorice wheel, and punch a small hole in the middle of each with a toothpick. Set aside.

3  decorate the cake

Cut the large Tootsie Rolls in half and put them side-by-side on a clean work surface, in 2 groups of 3, lining up the indentations as much as possible. Use an offset spatula to make indentations straight across. Put the Tootsie Roll columns on the bottom left and right sides of the cake.

Put 3 green Twizzlers and 3 yellow Twizzlers on each side of the cake, touching the Tootsie Roll columns. Where the green Twizzlers end, add 3 red Twizzlers on each side, wrapping them around the top and filling in the gaps with pieces cut to fit. Repeat with the 3 orange Twizzlers, inside the red Twizzlers.

Using a reserved zip-top plastic bag of chocolate frosting, pipe 3 continuous borders—outer, inner, and middle—around the Twizzlers. Pipe a border around the 2 Tootsie Roll sections, and pipe vertical lines over the seams between them.

At the left seam where the red/orange and green/yellow Twizzlers meet, put 2 Sour Belts horizontally with the red stripes together. Cut them to fit so that they cover the piped borders and are anchored to the cake by the frosting. Repeat on the right side with 2 more Sour Belts.

Put the pink wafer cookies horizontally between the Sour Belts, lining them up end-to-end in 2 rows. At the top of the cake, just above the inner orange border, put 1 pink record in the center and attach it with gray frosting. Take a 3½-inch-long piece of blue Twizzler and cut it in half lengthwise. Angle the pieces against the pink record and attach them with chocolate frosting. Cut the ends at the top edge, just beyond the piped border.

Spoon ¼ cup vanilla frosting into a plastic bag and cut ¹⁄8 inch

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gumdrop in the bottom half of the speaker grid. Pipe 3 small gray dots on the sides and top of each yellow gumdrop, and 4 small dots around the red gumdrop. Pipe a line down the bottom seam of the U shape and 2 across the sides.

5  continue decorating the jukebox

Put the colored jujubes on the cake as shown in the photo.

Cut 1 green and 1 red Giant SweeTart in half, and put one green half in the center above the pink wafer cookies and the other half on top of the speaker. Put the pink halves on either side of the green piece, as shown.

6  make the records in the window

Cut 3 licorice wheels in half. On 2 of the halves, remove 2 strands of licorice; on another 2 halves, remove 3 strands; and on the remaining 2 halves, remove 4 strands, creating the different-size records. Put the 2 largest records in the middle of the window, leaning slightly to the right, followed by the medium records on either side and then the smallest records, overlapping them as you go.

7  finish the cake

Using chocolate frosting, pipe 3 evenly spaced horizontal lines at the bottom of the jukebox. Scatter the remaining colored records, with 3 on the top and 3 on the bottom. Sprinkle edible confetti pieces around the cake.

off the tip. Leaving a ½-inch buffer on all sides, pipe a half-circle in the space above the pink wafer cookies and fill it in with thin horizontal lines. Smooth the frosting.

At the top of the jukebox, pipe 2 lines of gray frosting outside the blue Twizzlers, and connect the lines with a gray line below the record. Pipe gray borders around the outside of the white half-circle and the pink wafer cookies. Pipe a gray vertical line at the seam where the pink wafer cookies meet, and then every ¾ inch, until you have 3 vertical lines on each side. (Red licorice will be placed on the lines later.) Pipe a border around the two Sour Belt sections, and horizontally across the middle.

Pull 2 strands from the Twizzlers Pull ’n’ Peel rope, line the inside of the half-circle, and cut to fit. On the pink wafer cookie section, put a piece of the red licorice strand on top of the gray lines, cutting each one to fit. Pipe gray lines in between the red licorice pieces.

4  make the speaker

Starting 2 inches below the wafer cookies and centered on the cake, put 4 blue Twizzlers in a U shape to form the speaker section. They should meet in the middle, 1½ inches from the bottom edge. Cut to fit. Using gray frosting, pipe a crosshatch design of evenly spaced lines inside the blue Twizzlers. Pipe 1 gray line across the top of the grid and a gray border around the outside of the blue licorice.

Put 2 red Pull ’n’ Peel strands between the blue Twizzlers and cut to fit. Put 2 large yellow gumdrops at the top of the speaker and 1 red

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