Heat oven to 350ºF.  Grease and flour 13x9" pan. Prepare cake by mixing cake mix with pudding. Add water, soda, oil and eggs. Beat for 2 minutes with electric mixer. Bake according to time given on cake box. Cool completely. Frost top of cake; lightly score cake into 24 sections. Following diagram, fill in center area with red M&Ms, leaving a circle in the center. Sprinkle the center circle with yellow sugar. Fill in remainder of cake around poinsettia with green M&Ms. The 14 oz package contains enough pieces to make this design. * I made this using a cherry cake mix with vanilla pudding and cherry soda. It can be made using any flavor cake with pudding to match, and 1 cup water instead of 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup soda.

Posted to MM-Recipes Digest by "Robert Ellis" <rpearson@snowcrest.net> on Nov 13, 1999