Valerie's Volcano Cake
I made this cake GF. I Would not recommend the brand of gluten-free cake mix I used. Very heavy.
Ingredients needed:
3 Boxes of cake mix (I did yellow) + baking supplies
3 room temperature chocolate frost (I used dark chocolate)
1 Tube Wilton's Sparkle Gel, Green sprinkles, Water
Dry ice, Bunt pan, Pyrex bowl that is oven safe
Pom juice glass (Pomegranate Juice sold at Safeway)
How to assemble:
Make 1 3/4 of box cake batter, put in bunt pan and cook according to directions, you will have to cook longer if adding extra mix.
(Gluten Free mixes don't rise, that is why extra batter is required)
I used my Pampered Chef mixing bowl with a Pom Juice Glass in the middle. Grease all pans and glass jar. Place glass in middle of glass bowl. Make sure your mixing bowl can be used in oven and high temperatures.
Put 1 1/4 of box cake batter in pyrex bowl with glass (creates instant hole, no cake wasted) and cook according to directions, you will have to cook longer if adding extra mix.
Let cool. I then sliced the bunt pan cake length wise and frosted in between each layer, I then removed the Pom glass, hole already created.
I then sliced the pampered chef cake length wise and frosted in between each layer. Stacking each layer and frosting the whole cake.
I put the pom glass in the center of the cake, I used a fork to score the frosting to look like rough terrain. I also frosted the rim of the glass to hide the fact that the glass was higher than the cake.
I took the red gel and made it look like lava oozing Down. I sprinkled green around the bottom because my daughter said it needed grass at the bottom.
When ready to serve poor some water at the bottom of the jar. Use plastic tongs to gently place dry ice in cup. And now you have a cake that will make your kids squill with joy and say "I have the coolest mom in the whole world" my girls sure did!
Enjoy!
