Kittens N Mittens Cake

Name: Kittens N Mittens Cake
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 15
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons almond extract; 170 grams butter, softened; 720 grams confectioners sugar; 15 servings Red, blue, brown and black paste food coloring; 3 Tbsps heavy whipping cream; 1 red pull-apart licorice twist (9 inches); 154 grams shortening; 1 package cake mix (regular size)

Kittens N Mittens Cake requires roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 15. This dessert has 499 calories, 2g of protein, and 22g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have brown and paste food coloring, butter, confectioners' sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Mix cake according to package directions; pour batter into a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan lined with waxed paper.

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Baking Pan

Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 15 minutes; invert onto a wire rack.

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Toothpicks

Wire Rack

Oven

Remove pan and waxed paper; cool completely.

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Frying Pan

For frosting, combine butter, shortening and confectioners' sugar in a bowl. Beat on high for 5 minutes. Reduce speed to medium; blend in cream and extract.

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Powdered Sugar

Shortening

Frosting

Extract

Butter

Cream

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Bowl

Place 1/2 cup frosting each in two small bowls.

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Frosting

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Bowl

Add red food coloring to one bowl and blue to the other.

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Red Food Color

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Bowl

Place 2 tablespoons white frosting each into five custard cups. With brown food coloring, tint one cup cream, one tan and one brown. With black food coloring, tint one gray and one black.

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Food Color

Frosting

Custard

Cream

Trace patterns (except small mitten) onto waxed paper and cut out. Set heart, spot and muzzle patterns aside. Arrange patterns for cat, kitten, tails and large mitten on cake. Using a sharp knife, cut out according to quantities noted on patterns; remove paper.

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Knife

Place cat with tail and kitten with tail on a 22-in. x 20-in. covered board, trimming tails to fit bodies as needed. Frost with white icing.

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Icing

For muzzles, gently trace patterns on cat and kitten using a toothpick; frost with cream-colored frosting. Trace and frost kitten's brown, tan and gray spots. Fill a small bag with black frosting; cut a small hole in the corner of the bag. On cat and kitten, pipe dots for eyes, an upside-down triangle for nose and a line from the nose to the bottom of the muzzle. Pipe whiskers on muzzle.

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Frosting

Cream

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Toothpicks

Place mittens on board near cat and kitten. Frost one mitten blue and the other red. Trace a heart on cat and kitten; frost with red frosting. Trace a heart on each mitten. Fill a small bag with white frosting; pipe mitten heart outlines and a crisscross design on hearts. Pipe "x's" and stitching around edges of mittens.

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Frosting

Add a dot with white frosting in the center of cat's and kitten's eyes.

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Frosting

For scarves, separate licorice twist into three strips with three strands each. For kitten, cut one strip 8 in. long; form a loop near one end of strip. bend and place strip around kitten's neck, with loop ending at edge of neck.

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Licorice Twists

Cut a 2-in. piece from another strip; bend and secure from loop down side of kitten's neck. Repeat, using a 9-in. strip to make scarf for cat.

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Servings:

2teaspoons

almond extract 170grams

butter, softened 720grams

confectioners' sugar 15servings

Red, blue, brown and black paste food coloring 3Tbsps

heavy whipping cream 1

red pull-apart licorice twist (9 inches)154grams

shortening 1package

cake mix (regular size)

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Port Wine, Moscato Dasti

Cream Sherry, Port Wine, and Moscato d'Asti are my top picks for Dessert. A common wine pairing rule is to make sure your wine is sweeter than your food. Delicate desserts go well with Moscato d'Asti, nutty desserts with cream sherry, and caramel or chocolate desserts pair well with port. One wine you could try is NV Johnson Estate Cream Sherry. It has 5 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 19 dollars.

NV Johnson Estate Cream Sherry

Very aromatic with notes of hazelnut, vanilla, and a touch of oak followed by sweet raisins and a touch of yeast. Clean lasting finish. Good now but will reward those allow it to age"". A favorite pre-prandial beverage. Consider it with nuts before dinner as an aperitif, or after dinner with dessert, especially chocolates and fruit-based desserts. Also wonderful on cold afternoons, served with biscotti to dip in ""Italian-style"". "