Gingerbread House Cake

Name: Gingerbread House Cake
Prep time: 2 h 30 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 946 milliliters Golden Grahams cereal; 907 grams chocolate frosting; 11 whole graham crackers; 12 servings Assorted candies, for decorating (we used gummy leaves, licorice string, peppermints and candy- coated chocolate balls); 12 servings Cotton candy, for decorating; 907 grams boxes spice cake mix (plus required ingredients); 12 servings Sanding sugar, for decorating; 237 milliliters vanilla frosting

Gingerbread House Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains approximately 9g of protein, 42g of fat, and Head to the store and pick up vanilla frosting, chocolate frosting, spice cake mix, and a few other things to make it today. It will be a hit at your Christmas event. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line two 9-by-13-inch pans with parchment paper; coat with cooking spray. Prepare the cake mixes as directed; divide between the pans and bake as directed.

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Cooking Spray

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Baking Paper

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Let cool, then unmold.

Stack the 2 cakes with chocolate frosting in between. Mark the middle with toothpicks as shown, then cut in half crosswise. Stack the 2 halves with frosting in between to make a 4-layer cake. Freeze 30 minutes.

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Chocolate Frosting

Frosting

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Toothpicks

Put the cake on cardboard with a short side facing you. Mark the middle with toothpicks as shown. To form the roof, shave off the top 2 layers of cake at an angle, starting 1/2 inch to the right and left of the toothpicks.

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Toothpicks

Crumble about 2 cups of the cake trimmings and mix with just enough chocolate frosting so it sticks together. Moisten your fingers, then gently mold the top of the cake to form the tip of the roof.

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Chocolate Frosting

Cut the graham crackers by scoring with a small serrated knife, then snapping along the scored line. You will need 16 graham cracker squares, 4 large triangles and 2 small triangles to cover the cake.

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Graham Crackers

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Serrated Knife

Cover the cake completely with the remaining chocolate frosting. Gently press the graham crackers into the frosting to cover the whole cake except the angled roof.

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Chocolate Frosting

Graham Crackers

Frosting

Cut 1 whole graham cracker into 4 small rectangles for the chimney. Insert into the roof as shown, making sure the tops of the graham crackers are aligned.

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Graham Crackers

Arrange the cereal on the roof in rows, starting from the bottom and working your way up; overlap the rows so they look like shingles.

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Cereal

Decorate the house with vanilla frosting, candies and sanding sugar. To make icicles, pipe a dot of frosting, then drag the pastry bag downward. Top the chimney with cotton candy. Dust with confectioners' sugar.

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Powdered Sugar