Fruity Pebbles Cereal Milk Cake

This Fruity Pebbles Cereal Milk Cake is SO GOOD! The best part of cereal is the milk that’s left over, and there’s no better cereal milk than after a bowl of Fruity Pebbles! In this recipe, there is cereal milk in the cake, frosting and the glaze for extra flavor!

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You will need:

Fruity Pebble Cake ingredients:

1 ½ cups Fruity Pebbles cereal

2 cups milk

1 (16.25 oz.) box white cake mix (I used Betty Crocker)

1 tsp vanilla extract

¼  tsp lemon extract

¼  tsp strawberry extract

3 eggs

½ cup vegetable oil

1 cup crushed Fruity Pebbles cereal

Extra cereal (not crushed)

Cooking spray

Parchment paper

2 – 8” round baking pans

Cereal Milk Frosting ingredients:

1 ½ cup softened butter (I used salted)

4 ½ tsp vanilla extract

6 cups powdered sugar

6 TB cereal milk

½ cup crushed Fruity Pebbles

Cereal Milk Glaze ingredients:

1 cup powdered sugar

1/4 tsp lemon extract

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 TB cereal milk

1/4 tsp strawberry extract

Extra Fruity Pebbles for topping

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Directions

For the cake

Place the 1 ½ cups Fruity Pebbles cereal in a bowl and pour 2 cups of milk over it.  Soak the cereal for at least 30 minutes. Strain the cereal out of the milk and discard cereal but reserve the milk.

Preheat the oven to 350°F and grease two 8” cake pans with cooking spray and line the bottom with parchment paper.

In a large bowl combine the cake mix, eggs, oil, extracts and measure out 1 cup of the reserved cereal milk. (Refrigerate the rest of the cereal milk for the frosting and glaze).

Using a hand mixer, mix together all of the above ingredients for 2 minutes on medium speed.  Fold in the one cup of crushed cereal.

Pour batter evenly among the prepared pans and bake according to box instructions.  Cool cakes on wire rack for 15 minutes and then remove from pans.  Allow cakes to cool completely before frosting.

For the frosting:

Using a stand mixer, cream butter with mixer until fluffy and smooth.

Beat in powdered sugar a little at a time until fluffy and completely incorporated.

Mix in vanilla.

Add in the reserved 6 TB of cereal milk and beat until fluffy and smooth.

Mix in the ½ cup crushed Fruity Pebbles until thoroughly combined.

Frost the top of one cake layer, sprinkling a little cereal on top.  Place the second cake layer on top of the first and frost the top and sides of the cake.  Refrigerate cake while making glaze. (you can reserve about 1 cup frosting for piping the top of the cake if desired)

For the cereal milk glaze:

Combine 1 TB of cereal milk with the powdered sugar, vanilla, strawberry and lemon extracts in a small bowl and whisk until completely smooth.

If it looks too thick, add one more tablespoon of the cereal milk. The glaze should be on the thick side but add more cereal milk or sugar to adjust.  The glaze should drip down the cake a little but not run off, so it’s best to test a spot on the cake.

Drip a little glaze down the side of the cake and smooth the rest on top.  Sprinkle the top of the cake with some Fruity Pebbles cereal and decorate with piped frosting and more cereal.

This is THE BEST Fruity Pebbles Cereal Milk Cake ever! You can even eat it for breakfast (wink wink)