Bird Birthday Cake

Ingredients

• vegetable oil or shortening
• 1 cup birdseed
• 1/2 cup honey
• peanut butter
• sunflower seeds (unsalted)

Directions

1. Wash out an empty 6 ounce can (a tuna can works well) and an empty 3 ounce can. Grease the cans with oil or shortening.
2. In a small saucepan, combine the birdseed and honey and cook over medium heat while stirring. When the honey starts to boil, cook about 5 minutes, stirring constantly. The honey should darken slightly.
3. Remove from heat, and spoon the birdseed mixture into the cans. Refrigerate until the mixture hardens, about two hours.
4. With a can opener, remove the bottoms from the cans. Gently press the cakes out onto a plate.
5. Stack the smaller cake on top of the larger cake cake piece. Decorate the cake with peanut butter and sunflower seeds.

"This little cake is strictly for the birds, not people"

Source: Personal Library: The Secret Life of Food, Hyperion Books for Children, 2002

I made this for my mom for Mother's Day. I made multiple cakes and will give them to her. She loves feeding her birds so I figured a cake would be fun!