Stuck Santa Cake

Name: Stuck Santa 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 box Betty devils food cake mix; 1 strip rainbow-berry flavor sweet-sour chewy licorice; 1 red licorice stick, cut in half; 12 servings Tray or cardboard covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil; 1 container Betty Rich & Creamy chocolate frosting; 6 chocolate sugar wafers; 12 servings Red gel food color; 1 container Betty Whipped fluffy white frosting; 2 smalls (1-inch) chewy chocolate candies, unwrapped; 1 large marshmallow; 3 miniature marshmallows, cut in half crosswise; 2 larges peppermint candies; 12 servings Powdered sugar, if desired; 1 roll Betty Fruit Roll-Ups® strawberry chewy fruit snack (from 5-oz box); 1 teaspoon red decorating sugar; 12 servings Coarse sugar, if desired

This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 557 calories, 3g of protein, and 14g of fat. Head to the store and pick up rainbow-berry flavor sweet-sour chewy licorice, coarse sugar, marshmallow, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 2 hours and 55 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 325F. Grease 9-inch square pan with shortening; coat with flour (do not use cooking spray). Lightly grease 1 muffin cup in mini muffin pan and 1 muffin cup in regular-size muffin pan.

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Cooking Spray

Shortening

All Purpose Flour

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Mini Muffin Tray

Muffin Tray

Oven

Make cake batter as directed on box.

Pour cake batter into 1 mini muffin cup, and 1 regular-size muffin cup, filling two-thirds full.

Pour remaining batter into square pan.

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Frying Pan

Bake cupcakes 11 to 14 minutes, square 47 to 53 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 pan; 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

Frying Pan

Meanwhile, reserve 1/2 cup of the white frosting in small bowl and 1/4 cup of the chocolate frosting in another small bowl.

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Chocolate Frosting

Frosting

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Bowl

Place square cake layer, rounded side down, on serving plate. Frost with remaining chocolate frosting.

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Chocolate Frosting

Place regular cupcake, rounded side down, on cake.

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Cupcakes

Place chocolate sugar wafers on their side around the cupcake, using reserved chocolate frosting to hold them in place around the cupcake, to form the chimney. Stack wafers, cutting as necessary to look like bricks, to make 2 layers of cookies on 4 sides of the cupcake.

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Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate

Wafer Cookies

Cupcakes

Sugar

Cut mini cupcake in half at an angle. In small bowl, mix 2 tablespoons of the reserved white frosting with red gel food color as desired to get deep red color.

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Food Color

Frosting

Cupcakes

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Bowl

Place cupcake at an angle at top of chimney, and frost with red frosting.

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Frosting

Cupcakes

Sprinkle with red sugar. Press cut miniature marshmallows against bottom of red frosted cupcake. This is Santa's behind.

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Mini Marshmallows

Cupcakes

Sugar

Microwave chewy chocolate candies on High 3 to 8 seconds, just until moldable. Firmly press on ends of red licorice sticks, and shape into boots. Press licorice ends into chimney cupcake to make Santas legs.

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Licorice

Cupcakes

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Microwave

Spoon remaining reserved frosting into resealable food-storage plastic bag.

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Frosting

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Ziploc Bags

Cut tiny tip from 1 corner of bag, and pipe white frosting and snow on chimney, and fur around tops of boots.

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Frosting

Generously spread and mound remaining fluffy white frosting to look like snow drifts over cake, coming up against the chimney in mounds.

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Frosting

Mounds Bar

Spread

To make Santas bag, wrap marshmallow with red fruit snack, pinching up at one end to form bag shape. Using paring knife, cut green strip out of rainbow-berry flavor sweet-sour chewy licorice. Wrap green candy strip around top of Santas bag, and gently tie it onto the bag.

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Marshmallows