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Candy Cane Cake Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Heat oven to 325°.
  • Generously grease and flour a 12-cup fluted tube cake pan.
  • Make cake batter according to directions on box.
  • Pour about 2 cups of the batter into the pan.
  • In a small bowl, pour about 3/4 cup batter and stir in red food coloring and peppermint extract.
  • Carefully pour pink batter over white batter in pan.
  • Carefully pour remaining white batter over pink batter.
  • ***This will make a candy cane shape in the middle of the cake that you will see when you cut it!!!***
  • Bake as directed according to directions on the box, or until cake test comes out clean.
  • Cool 10 minutes.
  • Turn pan upside-down onto cooling rack or serving plate.
  • Remove pan.
  • Cool cake 1 hour.
  • In a small bowl, mix icing ingredients.
  • If necessary, stir in additonal milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, until smooth and spreadable.
  • Spread icing over cake.
  • Sprinkle top with crushed candy canes.
  • Serve.
  • 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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  • shirleyoma 16 years ago
    Sounds good too!
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  • henrie 16 years ago
    That must be a very festive looking cake, great post.
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