Gingerbread Castle Cake

Name: Gingerbread Castle Cake
Prep time: 2 h 35 min
Cook time: 2 h 35 min
Total time: 2 h 35 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters chocolate chips, melted; 3 spearmint gumdrop leaves; 118 milliliters gumdrops; 4 round peppermint candies; 4 peppermint candy sticks; 1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® spice cake mix; 118 milliliters Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting

Gingerbread Castle Cake is a gluten free, dairy free, and fodmap friendly recipe with 12 servings. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 347 calories, 3g of protein, and 11g of fat. 31 person have tried and liked this recipe. It will be a hit at your Christmas event. If you have spice cake mix, spearmint gumdrop leaves, gumdrops, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 2 hours and 35 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 325°F. Generously grease and lightly flour Nordic Ware® Castle Bundt® cake pan, or spray pan with baking spray with flour.

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Baking Spray

All Purpose Flour

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Cake Form

Oven

Make batter as directed on cake mix box.

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Cake Mix

Pour batter into pan.

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Frying Pan

Bake 34 to 43 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Using a serrated knife, trim cake even with top of pan, if necessary. Turn pan upside down onto cooling rack; remove pan. Cool completely, about 1 hour.

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Serrated Knife

Wire Rack

Toothpicks

Oven

Frying Pan

Place cake on 12- to 15-inch serving plate, tray or piece of cardboard covered with foil.

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Aluminum Foil

Place melted chocolate chips in small resealable food-storage plastic bag; cut off tiny corner of bag. Pipe melted chocolate on cake to outline door and window panes.

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Chocolate Chips

Chocolate

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Ziploc Bags

Using small amount of frosting, attach round candies to 4 candy sticks; let dry.

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Frosting

Candy

Place remaining frosting in corner of small microwavable resealable food-storage plastic bag. Seal bag; microwave on High 10 seconds.

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Frosting

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Microwave

Cut off tiny corner of bag. Pipe frosting to decorate roof, tops of towers and windows. Decorate top and sides of castle with gumdrops.

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Frosting

Gum Drops

Place candy sticks (topped with round candies) on top of each tower; drizzle tops with frosting if desired.

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Frosting

Candy

Add 2 spearmint leaves to front entrance.

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Spearmint

Roll remaining spearmint leaf and shape into wreath shape; attach to door with small amount of frosting. Decorate wreath and entrance with candy sprinkles as desired.

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Spearmint

Sprinkles