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S'mores Bonfire Cake

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 box Betty Crocker Super Moist Triple Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 dash salt
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 tbsp vanilla

Filling

  • 1/2 bag chocolate chips
  • 1 cup heavy cream

Vanilla Buttercream Icing

  • 3 sticks butter (room temperature)
  • 5 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 splash vanilla extract

Toppings

  • Graham Crackers
  • Marshmallows

Instructions

Cake

  1. Mix all of the dry ingredients in one bowl and wet ingredients in another.

  2. Slowly add the mixed dry ingredients to your wet ingredients until all is combined.

  3. Follow baking instructions on back of cake box. (My oven is off by an outrageous amount so I can't honestly say what temperature I was at and for how long.)

Vanilla Buttercream Icing

  1. Beat the butter until whipped.

  2. Slowly add in the powdered sugar until all is combined.

  3. Add the vanilla extract.

  4. You can keep adding powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency. If it's too thick, add a tablespoon of milk.

Chocolate Ganache

  1. Sally's Baking Recipes describe perfectly how to create this chocolate covering. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/chocolate-ganache/

Creating the cake

  1. Once the layers have cooled, add a layer of frosting to the top of your first layer and smooth out.

  2. Build a wall of icing around the edge of the cake. Make sure this wall is tall and thick enough to hold in your chocolate ganache

  3. Add a layer of chocolate ganache and top with the next cake layer.

  4. Continue this process for the rest of the layers.

  5. Frost the cake and top with chocolate ganache and toasted marshmallows. In a piping bag, add drips of chocolate down the cake. You can add other garnishes such as graham cracker crumbs around the base.