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Easy Homemade Lord of The Rings Cake or Sauron Eye Cake on Gray Background With LOTR Toys
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Easy Lord of the Rings Cake (Sauron Eye Cake)

Easy Lord of the Rings cake (LOTR cake), homemade with simple ingredients. This Sauron Eye cake is chocolate flavored and decorated with colored buttercream frosting. No fondant necessary!
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time40 minutes
Decorating time30 minutes
Total Time1 hour 20 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 10 People
Calories: 563kcal
Author: Abeer Rizvi

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Bake cake and allow it to cool completely.
  • While the cake is baking and cooling, prepare frosting.
  • Divide frosting in separate bowls and tint them red, yellow, orange and black, using gel colors.
  • Place cake on serving dish.
  • Ice the cake completely in red frosting.
  • Use a toothpick to make an eyeball outline in the center.
  • Fill a piping bag with red icing and cut out a small opening with scissors.
  • Pipe in a zig-zag motion around the outline.
  • Fill another piping bag with orange icing and pipe roughly around the red icing.
  • Fill another piping bag with yellow icing and pipe roughly around the orange icing.
  • Fill another piping bag with black icing and fill the center.
  • Use a paintbrush to blend all the colors roughly, leaving out the black center. Don't blend the center.
  • Also, brush some black icing randomly on top of the cake.
  • For the side of the cake, brush red, yellow, orange and black icing randomly. Enjoy!

Notes

  • Read all my tips above. 
  • Leftovers can be stored in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 3 days. 
     

Nutrition

Calories: 563kcal | Carbohydrates: 93g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 9g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Sodium: 523mg | Potassium: 173mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 74g | Vitamin A: 1IU | Calcium: 68mg | Iron: 2mg