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Candy Cane Cake Recipe


Candy Cane Cake Recipe
This is PERFECT for the holiday table! Easy to make too. I cheat with a boxed mix as a base, but c'mon the holidays are hectic and sometimes you have to take short cuts!

Jaie

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Ingredients
  • 1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist white cake mix:
  • water
  • vegetable oil
  • egg whites
  • all above according to cake mix box
  • 1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
  • 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
  • Icing:
  • 1 cup confectioners' sugar
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • Candy canes, crushed, to decorate

Directions
  1. Heat oven to 325°.
  2. Generously grease and flour a 12-cup fluted tube cake pan.
  3. Make cake batter according to directions on box.
  4. Pour about 2 cups of the batter into the pan.
  5. In a small bowl, pour about 3/4 cup batter and stir in red food coloring and peppermint extract.
  6. Carefully pour pink batter over white batter in pan.
  7. Carefully pour remaining white batter over pink batter.
  8. ***This will make a candy cane shape in the middle of the cake that you will see when you cut it!!!***
  9. Bake as directed according to directions on the box, or until cake test comes out clean.
  10. Cool 10 minutes.
  11. Turn pan upside-down onto cooling rack or serving plate.
  12. Remove pan.
  13. Cool cake 1 hour.
  14. In a small bowl, mix icing ingredients.
  15. If necessary, stir in additonal milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, until smooth and spreadable.
  16. Spread icing over cake.
  17. Sprinkle top with crushed candy canes.
  18. Serve.
  19. This is a beautiful addition to a holiday table. It really does look like a candy cane on the inside when you cut it!!!

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Comments


That must be a very festive looking cake, great post.


Sounds good too!


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