Noel Cake

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My guests JUST LOVED this. I went to the bakery of my local grocery store and asked if I could buy uniced round cakes. They just gave them to me, so this recipe is SUPER economical. I added some root beer extract to the frosting, just to make it interesting. I happen to have an antique samuri sword that belonged to my husband's grandfather and we just hacked through it with that. The serving's are REALLY generous.

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This is the most ridiculous "recipe" I've ever seen on Food Network. I'm usually a fan of Sandra, but this one doesn't even make any sense! There is no such thing as a "store-bought unfrosted cake" like the ones she showed on this episode. Besides, how hard is it to bake up a cake mix on your own? The amount of "icing" she used on this cake was extreme and there is no way the cake didn't slip and slide all over the plate. Big failure in my opinion.

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I was wondering if there are any hints on cutting and serving the cake?

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I tried to make this cake for my friend's birthday. We love watching Semi-Homemade and when we saw the episode around Christmas she asked me to make that her birthday cake. I told her okay, but that I would make it true to the recipe- box cake, green frosting and all. My cake fell (you can see pictures of the disaster at http://semi-edible.blogspot.com/, but I imagine others' would stand if they didn't try to frost the cake on the same day they baked it (which I later learned was bad. Falling cake aside, the box spice cake was gross and the green frosting was kind of off putting for me.

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i just love it

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The most ridiculous cake I've ever seen.

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My husband and I saw this cake on the Semi-Homemade Cooking show and thought it would be an awesome idea to do for our HUGE Christmas celebration (nearly 30 people in attendance. So we pared it down a bit: only made one type of cake, skipped the chocolate covered sugar cone and the cutting of each layer in half to fill with icing (we simply iced each section whole. We put the iced bottom two layers in a cake container, then reserved the top two iced sections on a small plate for easier transport in the car. When we got to our destination, we assembled the iced cake, then let the kids decorate it with colored sugar balls and licorice and mini-marshmallows. Then we all sang happy birtthday to Jesus and let the kids blow the candles. It made a great dessert table centerpiece and it wasn't so sickeningly full of icing as other reviewers suggest. Also, we didn't have any problem with the cake sliding around, even though we didn't use cardboard cake rounds or a skewer through the center. This is such an awesome idea, I'll definitely use it in the future! I think this was a featured recipe specifically for the creativity in the decorating, not for the culinary skills required.

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As a hobbyist baker/decorate I can tell you th frosting recipe is way too soft at room temp. If you do not want your cakes sliding all over the place and the frrosting melting as you pipe all that goo on, I would refrigerate it all and take out only what you need. The frosting will heat up in your hands as ypu pipe and the icing is already very soft. Gel colors are a better way to tint and it does not add more liquid to the frosting. The cake is pretty, but it will probably taste gross due to the canned frosting. I would find a buttercream frosting recipe and substitute. If the cake is going to travel, you should also use dowels to secure the layers.