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Jolly Gingerbread Christmas Cake

Looking for a gingerbread creation you can enjoy eating with family and friends? Look no further than this Jolly Gingerbread Christmas Cake. Topped with homemade gingerbread cookies and decorated with colorful spice drops and sugar icing decorations, this Christmas cake is deliciously adorable in every way! Use your favorite spice cake recipe for the base for a treat that packs a holiday punch!
  • Skill LevelBeginner
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Ingredients

  • Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe

  • Creamy White Decorator Icing, 4 lb. Tub

  • Grandma's Gingerbread Cookies

  • Ready to Use Royal Icing, 14 oz.

  • Mini Gingerbread Icing Decorations

  • Spice drops or gum drops

  • Tools

  • Round Cake Decorating Tip 2

  • Non-Stick Cooling Grid - 14.5 x 20-Inch - Cooling Rack

  • Recipe Right Non-Stick Cookie Sheet, 15.25 x 10.25-Inch

  • Performance Pans Aluminum Round Cake Pan, 8-Inch

  • Round Cake Decorating Tip 4

  • Decorating Bags, 16-Inch Disposable Piping Bags, 12-Count

  • Decorator Preferred 13 inch Angled Spatula

  • Standard Coupler

  • Gingerbread Cookie Cutters

Instructions

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  1. One day in advance, make gingerbread cookies. Prepare gingerbread cookie dough following recipe instructions. Using cookie cutter set, cut dough. Bake and cool.
  2. Decorate cookies. Prepare decorating bag with coupler and royal icing. Using tip 2, pipe details on gingerbread men. Switch to tip 4. Pipe details on house and trees. Let cookies dry 8 to 10 hours, or overnight.
  3. Bake cakes. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool two cake layers. Trim both layers to 1½ in. high. Fill and stack layers for 3 in. high cake. Ice cake smooth.

  4. Decorate cake. Prepare decorating bag with white icing. Cut ¾ in. tip in bag. Arrange cookies as desired on top of cake. Using bag, pipe mounds of icing behind cookies to help prop up.

    Add spice drops around top edge of cake, alternating between red and green candies. Add mini gingerbread icing decorations around bottom edge of cake.

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