The melting snowman cake is a popular trend right now, but this sweet snow person cake with bring smiles to all the faces at your holiday party or winter birthday!WE PUT LOTS OF TIPS IN THE POST TO MAKE THIS RECIPE A SUCCESS, SO BE SURE TO SCROLL BACK UP AND READ THEM ALL!
1box of favorite cake mixplus ingredients for making
1tub each of whitered, blue and orange icing (with a piping bag)
2Junior Mintsfor the eyes
Chocolate chipsfor the mouth
Instructions
TO MAKE THE CAKE:
Lightly grease and flour a hemisphere cake pan.
Mix and bake cake according to package directions, baking 25-35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
After baking, immediately turn cake upside down on a wire cake rack.
Place a wet dish towel over the outside of the pan (to help loosen the cake). Let pan and cake sit until cool.
Gently remove pan from the cake and let cake cool completely before decorating.
TO DECORATE THE CAKE:
Ice the cake with a thin layer of white icing. Place the iced caked in the refrigerator or freezer until icing is hard and set, about 20 minutes.
Fill a coffee mug with hot water and place a rubber cake icing spatula in the water.
Put a second layer of white icing on the cake, using the hot icing knife to make the icing look smooth (like fondant). When you need more icing, wipe the knife off and place in the hot water to warm before each icing. Smooth the second layer of icing, working in sections and smooth with the hot icing knife. (You may need to "warm" the rubber spatula multiple times throughout the process.)
Once the layer of white icing is smooth, make the scarf. With a piping bag, pipe a scarf, alternating red and blue colors, all the way around. (I used an "M" shape for the scarf).
For the ear muffs, use the decorating icing in blue and pipe a smooth line across the snowman's head from one side to the other, stopping halfway down the cake. (Use the hot cake icing knife to smooth it down, if needed.) Pipe big red circles at the end of the blue line on either side (for the muffs covering ears).
On the front of the cake, place the two Junior Mints on the cake for eyes.
For the carrot nose, use the orange decorating icing and pipe, starting in the center just under the eyes, and pipe it going out to the side. Start larger and get smaller at the tip to give it perspective.
Turn chocolate chips to the flat side and use them for the smile, pushing them gently into the icing for the mouth.
Using red icing, pipe rosy cheeks on either side of the smile.