Celebration Cake

Streamers and Party Blowers, recipe below
1 package white cake mix
1 1/4 cups water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
3 egg whites
1 tub Creamy vanilla ready-to-spread frosting
Assorted sugar sequins and colored sugars

Make Streamers. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease bottoms only of 2 round pans, 8 or 9x1 1/2 inches. Make cake mix as directed on package, using water, oil and egg whites. Pour into pans.

Bake 8-inch pans 27 to 32 minutes, 9-inch pans 23 to 28 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Run knife around side of pans to loosen cakes; remove from pans to wire rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.

Reserve 1/4 cup frosting for Party Blowers. Place 1 cake layer, rounded side down, on serving plate. Spread with about 1/3 cup frosting. Place other layer, rounded side up, on top. Frost side and top of cake with remaining frosting. Press sugar sequins and colored sugars into frosting on side and along outer edge of top of cake.

Make Party Blowers. Place Party Blowers on top of cake with candy sticks toward center of cake. Unwrap streamers from spoon handles. Reshape into desired curl and place between Party Blowers and around base of cake. Store cake loosely covered at room temperature.

Streamers and Party Blowers

7 rolls Fruit Roll-Ups chewy fruit snack rolls (any flavor)
1/4 cup reserved Creamy vanilla ready-to-spread frosting
3 drops yellow food color
6 candy sticks, 5 inches long

To make streamers: Unroll 1 fruit snack roll and cut lengthwise into 1/4-inch strips with a knife and a straightedge. Roll each strip in a spiral around handle of wooden spoon. Store at room temperature at least 8 hours to set curl to make streamers.

After frosting cake, make 6 party blowers: Tint reserved frosting with food color. For each party blower, break candy stick in half. Cut a 4-inch piece from a roll of chewy fruit snack. Place a small amount of frosting 1/4 inch from broken end of 1 candy stick half. Wrap narrow end of piece of fruit roll over frosting. Pipe 2 rows of frosting stars over seam with decorating bag and star tip. Curl the end of the fruit roll to about 1 1/2 inches from star rows and secure with small amount of frosting if needed.