A delicious and easy to make cake for the holidays.
You can do this with one box mix, but you won't have the height.
- 2 Boxes Duncan HInes Moist Yellow Cake Mix
- 1 cup of sour cream
- 6 eggs
- 1 Coffee Mate Italian Sweet Cream Coffee Creamer
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup Canola Oil
- 1 tsp. almond or cherry flavoring
- 1 tsp. Wilton Butter Flavoring
- 1 jar Apricot Preserves
- 1 jar Orange Preseves
- 2 Wilton Petal Cake Pans (or 9" round pans)
- Strawberries
- Small Marshmallows
- Toothpicks
- White Icing
- Black Writing Icing (for eyes)
- Red and Green Sprinkles
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Prepare cake pans by spraying with cooking spray; set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat cake mixes, eggs, sour cream, creamer, oil, and flavorings until thoroughly blended.
- Pour half the batter in each prepared pan.
- Bake 1 hour, or until cake tests done.
- Freeze overnight for easier handling.
- Beat preserves with a mixer, set aside.
- Slice each cake into two layers. Fill with apricot/orange mixture, also topping the top of the cake. Using a pastry brush, glaze the sided of the cake.
- For the Santa Hats: Pipe white hat rim around each petal corner of the cake. Remove the stem on strawberry, place inside icing rim, pointed end up. Place a toothpick inside marshmallow and than into strawberry. Place in center of icing hat rim. Repeat until all hats are completed.
- For the Santa Elves: Remove stem, cut a small slice off the narrow end of the strawberry. Hull out a small piece of strawberry. Pipe white icing in, top with the cut piece of strawberry top. Add eyes and pipe a pom-pom on hat.
- Optional: With your hands, gently glaze the strawberries. Add marshmallows around the bottom and holiday colored sprinkles.
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Appaloosakeeper (1 discussion) on Nov 20, 2012 at 10:36 AM
That is just so neat! Love, love, love the idea!~
Comment by: Jeanuine (78 discussions) on Nov 25, 2012 at 12:59 PM
Thank you for taking time to say so. Much appreciated! =)
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Trundgirl (1 discussion) on Nov 19, 2012 at 04:57 PM
Wow, that is pretty darn cool! I can't have sugar (I know, I know) but will make this for my family! Sometimes I can duplicate a recipe making it sugar free or close. S'pose I could try that. Looks good though!
Comment by: Jeanuine (78 discussions) on Nov 25, 2012 at 01:00 PM
Thank you so much! You can purchase sugar free preserves; that would help. You could also fill those strawberry santa's with just about anything.
Comment by: Jeanuine (78 discussions) on Nov 18, 2012 at 05:31 PM
Christine, thank you so much for always being such a true and "sweet" cheerleader. The cake was ever so moist and was a big hit. At first nobody wanted to cut into it, duh! LOL
Comment by: Christine Mlinek (315 discussions) on Nov 18, 2012 at 07:55 PM
I know what you mean! when you make something so great, and no one wants to cut into it. Don't know about you but, CUT CUT!!! please cut into it!! he he
Comment by: Jeanuine (78 discussions) on Nov 19, 2012 at 03:28 AM
I did a snowman cheese ball once for our gathering and the same thing happened. You try to explain that the photo op is over, let's eat!!!
