Crash-Landing Witch Cake

Name: Crash-Landing Witch Cake
Prep time: 2 h 55 min
Cook time: 2 h 55 min
Total time: 2 h 55 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 strip rainbow-berry flavor sweet-sour chewy licorice; 1 green licorice stick, cut into 1-inch pieces; 1 chocolate licorice stick, cut in half; 12 servings Tray or cardboard covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil; 3 thin chocolate wafer cookies, coarsely crushed; 1 container Betty Crocker® Whipped fluffy white frosting; 1 roll Betty Crocker® Fruit Roll-Ups® green chewy fruit snack (from 5-oz box); 1 roll Betty Crocker® Fruit Roll-Ups® punch berry chewy fruit snack (from 5-oz box); 5 brown candy sprinkles; 9 candy pumpkins; 4 smalls (1-inch) chewy chocolate candies, unwrapped; 2 larges marshmallows; 1 orange and green striped hard candy stick, cut in half; 20 drops orange gel food color; 2 miniature semisweet chocolate chips; 1 Tbsp black coarse sugar; 1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® yellow cake mix

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Crash-Landing Witch Cake a try. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains approximately 3g of protein, 11g of fat, and a total of 421 calories. Halloween will be even more special with this recipe. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours and 55 minutes. Head to the store and pick up semisweet chocolate chips, chocolate licorice stick, roll fruit roll-ups® punch berry chewy fruit snack, and a few other things to make it today. It is a good option if you're following a dairy free diet.

Instructions

Heat oven to 325°F. Grease 2 (8-inch) round cake pans with shortening; coat with flour (do not use cooking spray). Lightly grease 2 muffin cups in mini muffin pan.

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Cooking Spray

Shortening

All Purpose Flour

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Mini Muffin Tray

Muffin Liners

Oven

Make cake batter as directed on box.

Pour into 2 mini muffin cups, filling two-thirds full.

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Muffin Liners

Pour remaining batter into round pans.

Bake cupcakes 11 to 14 minutes, rounds 29 to 34 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes.

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Cupcakes

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Toothpicks

Oven

Remove cakes from muffin cups and pans; place rounded sides up on cooling racks. Cool completely, about 1 hour. If necessary, cut off rounded tops of cakes.

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Muffin Liners

Meanwhile, reserve 2 tablespoons of the frosting in small bowl. In medium bowl, stir orange gel food color into remaining frosting until smooth.

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Food Color

Frosting

Orange

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Bowl

Place 1 cake layer, rounded side down, on serving plate.

Spread 1/2 cup of the frosting over cake layer to within 1/4 inch of edge. Top with second layer, rounded side up. Frost with remaining frosting.

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Frosting

Spread

Cut 1 mini cupcake in half at an angle; press into cake to make the witch's behind. Frost with reserved 2 tablespoons frosting, sprinkle with black coarse sugar.

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Coarse Sugar

Frosting

Cupcakes

Microwave chewy chocolate candies on High 3 to 8 seconds, just until moldable. Press 1 candy on uncut end of each hard candy stick. Mold chocolate candies to make witch's shoes. Mold the remaining 2 chocolate candies together to make hat.

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Candy

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Microwave

Insert cut end of hard candy sticks into cake near witch's behind.

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Hard Candy

Sprinkle cookie crumbs around witch's behind.

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Cookie Crumbs

Using paring knife, cut the orange strip out of the rainbow-berry flavor sweet-sour chewy licorice. Wrap the orange candy strip around the witch's hat, and gently tie it onto the hat.

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Candy

Orange

Berries

Wrap

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Knife

To make pumpkins, wrap remaining mini cupcake and both marshmallows with punch berry fruit snack, pinching to seal fruit snack. Firmly press green licorice candies into top of wrapped pumpkins to make stem. Press miniature chocolate chips in cupcake face for eyes and brown candies for mouth.

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Mini Chocolate Chips

Marshmallows

Punch

Pumpkin

Cupcakes

Berries

Fruit

Wrap

Place on cake.

Fold remaining fruit snack in half lengthwise with paring knife; cut small slits into fruit snack without cutting all the way through. Wrap fruit snack around one end of chocolate licorice stick to make broom; place on cake. Decorate with candy pumpkins. Store loosely covered.

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Chocolate