Every year our elementary school asks (begs, pleads!) for everyone to make lots of cakes for their Cake Walk at the carnival fundraiser. Those cheap boxes of cake at the grocery store- you can make 2 cakes from each box if you don't stack them. They all require 3 eggs, water and oil to be added. I use applesauce instead of oil (unsweetened), and they turn out fine (and healthier! and cheaper!) This year, I bought a few extra things to make them a little different. 
This one sparked a bit of debate: are the marshmallow peeps worshiping the marshmallow? I mean, it IS where they came from.
Blue gummy worms crawling out of a too-moist fudge topping. Mmmmm.
(Remember, there will be elementary-aged kids choosing which cake to take home!)
Peeps swimming in fudge- you can see the waves crashing on their sides (an attempt to cover up the non-pink marshmallow that shows when you tear them apart).
This would work better on white or light frosting- colorful gummy butterflies on the cake. It didn't taste bad, just didn't show up well on that dark fudge frosting.
The far-right bottom cake had coconut inside. I bought some frozen coconut chunks from Trader Joe's to add to the cake box to see how it would taste. It wasn't great. Now I know. Anyway, I added shredded coconut on top of this one so that whoever chose it would (hopefully) be a coconut fan.
All of the non-peep cakes needed toothpicks to keep the plastic wrap off the frosting, but the peeps kept it off all on their own. Good job, Peeps!
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