Easy Christmas Cake Recipe

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Easy Christmas Cake Recipe

Quick and easy Christmas cake recipe, made with simple ingredients. Moist chocolate cake filled with icing and decorated with seasonal red, green candies.

Prep Time10

Cook Time40

Decorating time20

Total Time1 10

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: Slices

Calories: 1471kcal

Author: Abeer Rizvi

Ingredients

2 Chocolate Cakes (Doctored Cake Mix) Round, Dimensions: 8x2 each
3 cups Marshmallow Frosting
1 cup M&M candies Red and green
¼ cup Gum balls Red and green
35 Twizzlers Red and green

Instructions

Bake the chocolate cakes and let them cool down completely.
Place one cake on a cake stand and top it off with icing.
Then, gently press the other cake on top and frost the entire cake in icing.
Stick red and green Twizzlers in an alternating pattern along the sides of the cake. Frosting works like a glue. You will need to cut the Twizzlers with scissors to match the height of your cake.
Tie a ribbon around the cake to hold the Twizzlers in place. I used 1 ribbon but to make it even more secure, I would suggest using 2 ribbons... one near the top and one near the base.
Fill the top of the cake with m&m candies, gum balls.
Cut up leftover Twizzlers into small pieces and spread them around the base of the cake. Enjoy!

Notes

This would be great for a christmas birthday cake too. You can take it over the top by making a 2 or 3 tier cake and also add other types of seasonal candies likes peppermint, candy canes e.t.c.
Add 1 teaspoon peppermint extract in the cake recipe and the frosting to make a chocolate peppermint cake, which would be more suitable flavors for this time of the year.
If you are serving this cake where little kids will be present, skip the gum balls because they are very hard to chew and could become a choking hazard.
Red and green Twizzlers are only available during the Holiday season. If you can't find them, you would need to buy quite a few bags of rainbow Twizzlers and then, separate the red and green ones.
You can use different types and colors of candies to make this cake for other holidays too. I have used the same general tutorial to decorate this Halloween Cake and Rainbow Cake.
Make sure the cakes cool down completely before frosting them or else the icing will melt and make a mess.
Read all my tips above.
Leftovers can be stored in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 3 days.

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