Knight's Castle Cake

Name: Knight's 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: 12 servings Blue food color; 118 milliliters packed brown sugar; 59 milliliters multicolored small goldfish-shaped crackers; 1 container Betty Crocker® Whipped fluffy white frosting; 4 Betty Crocker® Fruit by the Foot® chewy fruit-flavored snacks (from variety pack of different colors); 4 gumdrops; 1 bar milk chocolate candy, with or without almonds, if desired; 1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® yellow cake mix

Knight's Castle Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. This dairy free recipe serves 12. One serving contains 453 calories, 2g of protein, and 8g of fat. A mixture of multicolored crackers, brown sugar, gumdrops, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 35 minutes.

Instructions

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

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Baking Spray

Shortening

All Purpose Flour

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Cake Form

Oven

Make cake batter as directed on box.

Pour batter into pan.

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Frying Pan

Bake 33 to 43 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Using a long 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. Stir 8 to 10 drops blue food color into frosting.

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Blue Food Color

Frosting

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Aluminum Foil

Spread frosting around base of cake to look like water.

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Frosting

Base

Water

Sprinkle brown sugar around frosting on plate to look like sand.

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Brown Sugar

Frosting

Place gumdrops on top of each tower.

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Gum Drops

Cut long flag-shaped pieces out of fruit snack with sharp knife or kitchen scissors.

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Fruit

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Kitchen Scissors

Knife

Roll fruit snack around 4 toothpicks to make flags; insert toothpicks into gumdrops. Arrange crackers and rock candy in frosting, and add chocolate bar, upside down, for drawbridge as shown. Store loosely covered.

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Candy

Crackers