Easy Grinch Cake {For Christmas}

5 from 2 ratings

Easy Grinch Cake {For Christmas}

Easy Christmas Grinch cake recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. This chocolate and vanilla layer cake is decorated with red hearts, sprinkles, topper and green buttercream icing shags.

Prep Time10

Cook Time40

Decorating time20

Total Time1 10

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: Slices

Calories: 359kcal

Author: Abeer Rizvi

Ingredients

2 Chocolate cakes Round, 8x2 each
1 Vanilla cake Round, 8×2
5 cups Buttercream icing Colored green
1 cup Sprinkles and candies Variety of red gum balls, red hearts, red and green jimmies, red edible pearls

Instructions

Bake the chocolate and vanilla cakes and allow them to cool completely.
While the cakes and baking the cooling, prepare the icing and color it green with gel coloring.
Place a chocolate cake on a cake stand.
Use a spatula to spread icing on top of the cake.
Place the vanilla her cake on top of the icing and press gently.
Use a spatula to spread icing on top of the cake.
Place the final chocolate cake on top of the icing and press gently.
Cover the entire cake in icing. It does not need to be neat and if there are crumbs, that's perfectly fine because this is a "crumb coat" and it will all get covered.
Fill a piping bag with green icing and attach the grass tip (Wilton Tip # 233).
Start piping from the bottom of the cake and work your way upwards until sides are fully covered in "fur." The general motion is to hold your piping bag at a 45 degree angle and then squeeze the bag until icing comes out. Then, pull away gently and let the "shags" fall.
Pipe the top of the cake in the same manner. Start piping from the outer edges and work your way inwards until top is fully covered in "fur." This is very similar to how I decorated my Cookie Monster Cake and Cookie Monster Cupcakes.
Push the topper gently into the center of the cake until it's secure.
Decorate with sprinkles and candies around the topper. Also, toss some sprinkles around the sides of the cake too. Enjoy.

Notes

Use gel coloring instead of liquid food coloring because it's thicker and more concentrated and doesn't thin out the icing consistency.
The heat from your hands can make the icing in your piping bag warm and runny. This makes is difficult to pipe. If this happens, simply chill your piping bag in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes and then continue piping.
Leftovers can be stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Read additional tips and variations above.

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