cakeMix - CupCake Cake
Source of Recipe
from dgBurton at thriftyfun
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
cakeMix - CupCake Cake
Things You'll Need:
2 boxes moist butter cake mix
1 1/2 tsp. of marshmallow flavoring
4 containers of white butter cream frosting
6 tsp. of marshmallow frosting
Food coloring
Plastic sandwich bags
Step 1:
Using the directions that are on the cake boxes make two round cakes.
Step 2:
Follow the directions on the box mix to make as many cupcakes as you desire.
Step 3:
Cool the cakes and cupcakes completely before you begin to assemble your cake.
Step 4:
Use 1/2 cup of butter cream frosting to sandwich round cakes together.
Flatten the top layer, then cover the top and the sides with the remaining butter cream frosting.
Step 5:
Put the cake in the refrigerator and let it chill for 1 to 2 hours.
Step 6:
Take the remaining 2 pints of butter cream frosting and put it into four different bowls.
Add a teaspoon and a half of marshmallow flavoring to each of the frosting bowls.
Add different food colorings into each of the frosting bowls.
Step 7:
Pour the different colored frosting into four small sandwich bags with about 1/2 cup of each color.
Use scissors and cut a small slit on one side of the bottom of each bag and lightly pipe varying sizes
of dots on the layer cake.
Step 8:
Frost the cupcakes with the remaining colored butter cream frosting.
Step 9:
Stack the frosted cupcakes in a three-level pyramid on top of the cake to begin the layers of the cupcake cake.
Step 10:
Continue to build the pyramid by adding seven cupcakes to the bottom layer, three to the middle layer
and one cupcake on top.