My daughter had a school assignment where she had to create a 3D model of a plant cell. We researched some ideas, and decided to go with making a cellular cake. We are definitely not great cake bakers or decorators (as you will see 🤣), but I wanted to share this idea in case you are in the same boat!

Supplies needed:
-boxed cake mix- white or yellow
-white icing
-green gel food coloring
-gummy worms (we used 6 total)
-nerds (1-2 Halloween-sized boxes)
-green Mike & Ike’s (we used 7 pieces total)
-red food coloring
-1 red blow pop
-Twizzlers
-flags on toothpicks

Directions:

-Mix the boxed cake mix according to the directions. Set aside a small bit of batter to cook in one muffin cup; the rest will go in a 9×12 pan. Bake according to directions.
**we baked the cake in a foil pan (for easy disposal)

-Take out ~3 tablespoons worth of white icing and put in a small container. Add some red food coloring and mix.

-Leaving the rest of the icing in the original container, add some green gel food coloring and mix.

-Once the cake and muffin are baked and cooled, ice the muffin with the red icing and the cake with the green icing.

-Line the edges of the cake with Twizzlers.

-Cut the muffin so that half of the muffin is gone, showing the inside, and place on the cake.

-Cut the stick of the blow pop off and stick the lollipop in the middle of the muffin.

-Place 3-4 Mike & Ike’s close together on the green icing, and draw a circle around them with the green food gel. (We did this twice)

-Place a group of nerds together. (We did this twice)

-Place 3 gummy worms together. (We did this twice)

We stuck the flags on toothpicks by one of each part of the cell. Here is how we labeled it:

-Red muffin with blowup: nucleus

-Gummy worms: Golgi bodies

-Mike & Ike’s: chloroplasts

-Nerds: ribosomes

-Green icing: cytoplasm

-Twizzlers: cell membrane

-Foil pan: cell wall