Baked Potato Cake

Name: Baked Potato Cake
Prep time: 2 h 25 min
Cook time: 2 h 25 min
Total time: 2 h 25 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 710 milliliters confectioners sugar; 2 fresh mint leaves; 1 Tbsp milk; 3 yellow Starburst candies; 1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature; 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder, plus more for dusting; 907 grams vanilla frosting; 907 grams boxes white cake mix (plus required ingredients)

You can never have too many side dish recipes, so give Baked Potato Cake Head to the store and pick up confectioners' sugar, mint leaves, vanilla frosting, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 25 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Coat three 9-inch-roundcake pans with cooking spray. Prepare the cake mixes as directed; divide the batter evenly among the pans and bake 30 to 35 minutes.

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Cooking Spray

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Oven

Let cool.

Make the "potato skin" frosting: Beat the butter and milk with a mixer until smooth. Beat in the cocoa powder. Beat in the confectioners' sugar, 1 cup at a time, until the mixture is as thick as cookie dough. Form into 2 disks, wrap in plastic and refrigerate.

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Powdered Sugar

Cocoa Powder

Cookie Dough

Frosting

Butter

Potato

Milk

Wrap

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Blender

Level the domed tops of 2 cakes with a serrated knife. Stack the flat cakes on a cardboard circle with vanilla frosting between each; use the remaining domed layer on top. Freeze 30 minutes.

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Vanilla Frosting

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Serrated Knife

Trim the cake into a potato shape with a small serrated knife; reserve the trimmings. Cover the cake with a thin layer of vanilla frosting.

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Vanilla Frosting

Potato

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Serrated Knife

Dust a sheet of parchment paper with cocoa powder.

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Cocoa Powder

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Baking Paper

Remove 1 disk of chocolate frosting from the refrigerator and roll into a 5-by-10-inch oval, dusting with more cocoa. Repeat with the other disk of frosting.

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Chocolate Frosting

Frosting

Cocoa Powder

Roll

Use the parchment to press the frosting sheets against the cake as shown, leaving a few inches on top uncovered. Dust with more cocoa. (Don't worry about how the bottom of the cake looks-it will be covered with foil.)

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Frosting

Cocoa Powder

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Aluminum Foil

Gently fold back the frosting on top. Crumble about 1/2 cup of the cake trimmings (use the light inside pieces) and sprinkle them on top of the cake.

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Frosting

Unwrap the candies and microwave until soft but not melted, about 12 seconds. Stack the candies, then flatten with your fingers. Set on top of the cake.

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Candy

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Microwave