New gingerbread christmas cake
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | Duncan Hines Butter Golden Cake Mix |
| 3 | larges | Eggs |
| ½ | cup | Butter; softened |
| ⅔ | cup | Water |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ground allspice |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ground clove |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ground nutmeg |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ground ginger |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ground coriander |
| 1 | teaspoon | Ground cinnamon |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Rum flavoring |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla extract |
| ¾ | cup | Shredded coconut |
| ½ | teaspoon | Walnuts; chopped |
| 8 | tablespoons | Butter; softened |
| 3 | cups | Confectioners' sugar |
| 1 | tablespoon | Warm milk |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla extract |
| ½ | pounds | Marzipan |
| Red and green food coloring | ||
Directions
CAKE
BUTTER ICING
MARZIPAN DECORATION
CAKE: 1. Heat oven to 375 F.
2. grease and flour 2 8-inch pans. Mix all ingredients except shredded coconut and chopped walnuts. Blend at low speed until moistened. Mix at medium speed for 4 minutes. Add coconut and walnuts. Pour into pans.
3. Bake immediately for 30-35 Minutes.
ICING: Blend butter and milk. Gradually add confectioners' sugar. Mix at medium speed until icing is smooth. Add vanilla extract.
MARZIPAN: Color marzipan with food coloring. Roll out on sugar-dusted board until it's ⅛" thick. Cut shapes of holly leaves and berries >From the recipe files of Martha Hicks. Type and MC formatted by Martha Hicks & Text to MasterCook II
NOTES : I checked this recipe several times(from the original printed recipe)
for the amount of chopped walnuts, and YES it does say ½ teaspoon. I'm sure you could put more
Recipe by: Duncan Hines
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #854 by "Nitro_II " <Nitro_II@...> on Oct 20, 97