Description
Super cool cake with candy fire and cookie logs!
Ingredients
Scale
- Cake mix or your favorite cake recipe *see recipe links above
- Can of chocolate frosting or make your favorite chocolate frosting recipe *recipe link above
- Small bag of yellow butterscotch candies
- Small bag of red cinnamon candies
- Canister of rolled wafer cookies (such as Pepperidge Farm Pirouette® Rolled Wafers)
- Large marshmellows
Supplies needed:
- Silpat baking liner or Parchment paper
- Baking sheet
- Meat tenderizer tool or heavy rolling pin
- 2–3 zipper sandwich bags
- Toothpicks or bamboo skewers
Instructions
- Make your favorite cake using 8 0r 9-in. round cake pans to make 2 layers. Bake layers according to your recipe or directions on the box and set aside to cool.
- Use a can of frosting or make your own and frost cake after it has cooled. Use an offset spatula to create loose swirls on the sides and top of the cake.
- Preheat oven to 375˚F. Unwrap butterscotch candies and put them into a sandwich bag. Press out all the air and seal bag closed. Crush candies with the meat tenderizer or rolling pin until they’re pea-sized or smaller. Repeat this process with a separate sandwich bag of cinnamon candies.
- Line a baking sheet with a nonstick silpat liner or parchment paper. Pour the crushed candy in a circler pattern with the two colors side by side. I put them in a swirly pattern.
- Place baking sheet in oven and bake for about 5 to 7 minutes until candy liquefies. Keep an eye on the candy as it melts—you want it melted but not bubbling.
- When the candy has melted, remove the baking sheet from the oven and use a toothpick or the end of a skewer to swirl them a little bit together. Allow to cool and harden and then hit with the bottom of a butter knife to create shards of candy for the fire.
- Cut rolled wafer cookies in half and place them around shards of candy on top the cake to create the campfire.
- Place large marshmellows around the base.
- Enjoy!