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In honor of the season premiere of Game of Thrones, I decided to make a little Fire and Ice cake.
This recipe uses a box mix, but I doctored it up to get a richer taste. Swapping out oil for butter and milk for water. Also added lemon juice and zest.
Inside the layers are fresh raspberries and lemon buttercream. To get the shards of ice and fire, melt crushed Jolly Ranchers in the oven and shatter them after cool. Super easy!
Lemon Raspberry Cake
Ingredients
CAKE
- Betty Crocker yellow cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup milk instead of the water
- ½ cup melted butter instead of oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Zest of 1 lemon
FILLING
- 1 cup of raspberries washed and dried
FROSTING
- 1 cup butter softened
- 4 cups Powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 3-4 tbsp Heavy whipping cream
ICE AND FIRE CANDY
- Jolly Rancher candies
Instructions
CAKE
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Grease three 6” or two 9” cake pans.
- Mix ingredients together.
- Pour into greased pans.
- Bake 25- 30 minutes or until toothpick test comes out clean.
- Chill cakes and remove from pans, keep in fridge wrapped in plastic till frosting.
FROSTING
- Cream butter in a mixer and slowly add sugar.
- Add vanilla, cream and lemon.
- Add frosting and a ring of raspberries in each layer of cake.
- Add crumb coat and chill in fridge 30 minutes.
- Frost with rest of icing. Save about 2 tbsp for adding candy shards.
ICE AND FIRE CANDY
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment.
- Spray nonstick spray on parchment.
- Crush 7-8 candies of each color in a baggie.
- Spread candy bits on parchment lined pan.
- Bake 5 minutes or until melted.
- Let cool and harden. Break into pieces. Attach to cake with frosting.