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Holiday Treats
Haunted House Cake

Haunted House Cake Description
The Haunted House Cake looks almost too spooky to eat, but this masterpiece will disappear as if by magic. Invite guests to tread through the graveyard of creative chocolatey treats you've conjured up with some of your favorite candies

Ingredients

  • Orange food coloring
  • 2 (16-ounce) cans vanilla frosting
  • 2 (16-ounce) frozen pound cakes, thawed
  • 1 box thin chocolate wafer cookies
  • 1 (0.68-ounce) tube black decorating gel
  • 1 bag Twix Fun Size Bars
  • 1 bag M&M'S Milk Chocolate Candies Pumpkin Patch Mix
  • 1 bag M&M'S Peanut Chocolate Candies Pumpkin Patch Mix

Preparation
Prep time: 20 minutes | Decorating time: 40 minutes

1. Tint frosting orange and set aside.

2. Spread 1/2 cup orange frosting on bottom of both pound cakes; then press them together. Stand cakes up so that they are vertical on a serving plate.

3. Create pitch of roof by trimming top of one cake on a slight angle. Trim other cake on a steeper angle to make roof look tipsy.

4. Completely cover cake with remaining orange frosting. For roof tiles, break chocolate wafers in half and arrange, overlapping slightly.

5. Pipe black decorating gel for windows. Add Twix bars for door and chimney. Use broken wafer cookies for shutters. Use M&M'S to outline top of roof and sides of house.

6. Grind remaining cookies along with a few Twix bars in food processor. Spread this mixture around base of house for "dirt" and scatter M&M'S on top.

Nutrition
no information available

Serves
Makes 1 cake

Variations
no information available

Source Bright Ideas.com



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