Treasure Chest Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (12 ounce) poundcake
1 container Cool Whip, thawed
assorted decorative candies, for jewels (m&ms, candy necklace, hard candys etc.)
1 pretzel stick, cut into thirds
2 twisted pretzels

Preparation

cut 1/2 inch slice off top of cake set aside.
Hollow out center of cake leaving 1/2 in.
shell on bottom and sides.
Spoon 1 cup of the whipped topping into cake shell.
Frost sides with 1 1/2 cups whipped toping.
Refrigerate Just before serving, place assorted jewels over whipped topping in the cake shell.
Angle reserved cake slice over jewels using pretzel rod pieces in each side, to resemble open chest lid.
Frost slice with remaining whipped topping.
Decorate cake with candies.
Add pretzels for handles.