Birthday Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lemon cake mix
1 container lemon frosting
1 lb. M&M's
1 c. raisins (optional)
1 c. nuts (optional)

Preparation

Prepare cake mix according to directions, adding raisins or nuts or 1/2 cup each and mix well just before pouring batter into pan to bake.
After cake has baked and cooled, frost cake according to directions and top with M&M's in letter formation to spell Happy Birthday.
It could also spell any other occasion as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Anniversary, etc.
Use plain M&M's if using nuts in cake.
Use either kind with raisins or neither.