Volcano Cake

Recipe courtesy Sandra Lee, 2008

Show: Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra LeeEpisode: Fun Food

Rated: 5 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (14)

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Cook Time:
50 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
18 to 24 servings

Times:

Prep: 20 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 50 min
Total:: 1 hr 10 min

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Ingredients

2 (18.25-ounce) boxes red velvet cake mix (recommended: Duncan Hines)
2 2/3 cups water
1 cup vegetable oil
6 eggs
3 (12-ounce) cans chocolate whipped frosting (recommended: Betty Crocker)
1 (6.4-ounce) can green decorating icing (recommended: Betty Crocker Easy Flow)
1 (6.4-ounce) can red decorating icing (recommended: Betty Crocker Easy Flow)
1 (6.4-ounce) can orange decorating icing (recommended: Betty Crocker Easy Flow)
1 (6.4-ounce) can yellow decorating icing (recommended: Betty Crocker Easy Flow)
1 (.68-ounce) tube yellow gel decorations (recommended: Cake Mate)
1 (.68-ounce) tube red gel decorations (recommended: Cake Mate)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray 2 (8-inch) cake pans, 2 (10-inch) cake pans and 1 (6-inch) Bundt pan with cooking spray and set aside.

Beat cake mix, water, oil, and egg whites in a large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds. Scrape down sides of bowl and beat for 2 minutes on medium speed. Divide batter equally between prepared cake pans.

Bake 8-inch cakes and 6-inch Bundt cakes in oven for 35 to 40 minutes and 10-inch cakes for 45 to 50 minutes, or until tester comes out clean. Remove and cool completely.

To assemble, use a serrated knife to slice off the tops of the 8 and 10-inch cake so the surface of each cake is flat. Place the cut tops into a large bowl and break up to from large crumbs. The crumbs will be used a "lava rocks" at the base of the volcano. Slice the bottom off the 6-inch bunt cake so it sits flat.

Spread a thin layer of chocolate frosting between the 10-inch cake layers and stack. Spread a thin layer of chocolate frosting between 8-inch cake layers and stack. Place another thin layer of frosting on top of the 8-inch layer cake and place the bunt cake cut side down on top. Place a dollop of frosting on top of the 10-inch cake and carefully, place 8-inch cake on top and center of 10-inch cake.

Use a serrated knife to trim edges around the tops of both cakes to create a cone shaped cake. (Make angled cuts downward and leave a round base on top for icing to "flow" from.)

To decorate, frost outside of entire cake with remaining chocolate frosting. Place the cake crumbs around the base of the cake. Pipe green icing around the entire bottom of the cake for "grass". To create "flowing lava" pipe red icing a quarter from the top of cake in downward strokes to the middle of the cake with ribbon tip. Repeat technique with orange icing, starting almost at top of cake and ending where red icing begins with slight overlap. Repeat technique with yellow icing starting at the very top of cake and overlap orange icing. Drizzle yellow and red gel coloring around the very top of cake.

For the smoke effect place a few pieces of dry ice into glass candle votive. Place the votive into the hole of the bunt cake. Pour a small amount of warm water into the votive and watch it smoke.

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Miley gainesville, GA 10-06-2009
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So well for Miley Cyrus (thats me!!!)
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I loved this It is soo awsome and good!!!!!
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Lori Anniston, AL 08-09-2009
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Very easy and exciting for the kids
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

My 12 year old daughter and I made this cake into a Pokemon themed volcano. This cake was very easy to bake and assemble. We... used the Pampered Chef measuring bowl to as the baking dish for the top part so we wouldnt' have to buy small bundt pan and it worked perfect. For the colored icing, we used white store-bought frosting, gel food color and plastic baggies snipped at the corner to make red, orange and yellow "lava" stripes. Our local shops do not sell dry ice but I was able to find it at a welding shop.Read more
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Lizzy Houston, TX 06-22-2009
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Awemosest cake I've ever made!!!!!!!!!!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

this was such a great cake... And it was very easy...(btw, i've made it 4 times already!!!!!) just a little time consuming... and the ingredients (in all) were a little pricy but it was sooo worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!Read more
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Valerie Greenville, SC 02-18-2009
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Where to find Dry Ice
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

You can get Dry Ice from Publix Suoermarket!!!! For $1.29 a pound
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Krystal Honolulu, HI 11-17-2008
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Easiest B-Day cake I've made in 21 years and 6 kids!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Talk about bang for your buck! This is an real crowd pleaser. The directions are far more difficult than this calls for but... bare in mind she has to fill a half hour show. You'd have to be some kind of novice to be challenged by this one! All said I was out maybe $12 and spent 20 minutes hands on. The steps I took: Take 2 boxes of any kind of dark cake (I used Moist Delux Devil's Food) Prep your pans by greasing and taking a 1/2c. of the cake mix to "flour" them. Shake the left over into your mixing bowl. Mix & bake according to the directions. I used a regular Bundt pan so I put that one in the oven 1st. By the time I had the 2nd mix done it was perfect time to add the two rounds to the oven. They all came out at the same time, I let them cool in the pans then I plopped the rounds one atop the other and the Bundt on top( no cutting off the tops, it's a volcano not a pyramid. Imperfection is okay;). Trimmed to Vocano shape, frosted, drizzled with the icing and dropped the ice in the votive with the water and VOILA! Instantly thrilled kiddos. I did get one of those tubes of mini dinosaurs to put around the base. I love this, fast ,simple and it thrilled the kids! One last thing. I found dry ice at a welding supply store of all places if that's helpful. Who knew? Thanks Sandra Lee!Read more
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Nancy Stillwater, MN 10-06-2008
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Volcano cake
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

While the idea is great, the execution was not as simple as shown on the show. Two cakes mixes made about 1/4 inch high... cakes, so I used 4 cake mixes and eight layers (three chocolate fudge) to get the desired height. The recipe also talked about adding egg whites, but never said anything about separating the eggs, so I used the whole egg, as in the cake box directions. The final product was very cute, but we couldn't find any dry ice in our area. I stuck the sparkler candles in, but it just wasn't the same effect. Our 10 years old grandson still enjoyed the cake. Read more