Erupting Volcano Cake

by Julie Hilbert
(Ceres, CA, USA)

My volcano cake was made with two full round cakes, one slightly smaller than the other, and a large chocolate muffin. I placed the smaller circle on top of the larger one, "gluing" them together with chocolate frosting. Then I "glued" on the chocolate muffin on top.

I cut the sides of the layers diagonally to make the shape of a mountain and frosted them all with chocolate frosting, filling in the crevices where needed.

I added some cookie crumbs to the "mountain" for dirt and chocolate chips for rocks. I also colored coconut green by mixing it with food coloring and sprinkled it around the bottom of the volcano for grass.

I hollowed out the muffin and placed a small cup inside. I mixed one egg with some red food coloring and poured it inside the cup along with some small pieces of dry ice.

When it was ready to serve, I filled the cup with hot water and the volcano erupted all over the place!

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May 05, 2010
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Eggs
by: Julie

Kelly - the eggs worked great, but if you're not going to eat it right away, I'd do something different. We actually ate the cake the next day, so I cleaned off the egg and in its place whipped up some red jello with a beater (instead of a spoon) chilled it, and filled the top. It looked great!

Mar 07, 2010
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volcano
by: Kelly

Very nice job!

How do the eggs work?

I just used dry ice and water with mine.

Mar 07, 2010
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FUN CAKE
by: NANCY

I SAW ONE OF THESE ON THE FOOD CHANNEL ONCE AND IT WAS SUCH A FUN CAKE TO SEE WHEN IT ERUPTS. HOW COOL. NANCY OF RIALTO, CA

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