Snow Globe Cake

• 2/3 cup shortening
• 1-1/4 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 2-1/2 cups cake flour
• 2-1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 2 packages (3 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
• 3 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Brown, green, red and blue paste or gel food coloring

1. In a bowl, cream shortening and sugar. Add the eggs, milk and molasses; mix well. Combine the dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture and mix well. Pour 1-3/4 cups into a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan; pour remaining batter into a greased 9-in. round baking pan.
2. Bake at 375u0b0for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
3. For frosting, in a bowl, cream the butter and cream cheese. Add confectioners' sugar; beat for 5 minutes or until very smooth. Stir in the vanilla. Place 1 cup in another bowl; tint with brown food coloring. Place 1/4 cup each in three bowls; tint one green, one red and one blue. Leave the remaining frosting white.
4. Place loaf cake on a work surface with a long side facing you. To make globe base, measure 2 in. in from top right corner; cut at an angle from that point to the lower right corner. Repeat on other side. (Save cut out cake wedges for another use.) Place base on a 14x10-in. covered board; frost top and sides brown.
5. Place round cake above base; frost top and sides white. Gently press cookie cutters into cake to outline horse and sleigh, or outline them free hand. Frost horse brown. Place red frosting in a pastry or plastic bag; cut a hole in the corner. Pipe outline of sleigh and three horizontal strips on the sleigh. Pipe a rein from horse to sleigh.
6. Make pine trees with green frosting. Using a toothpick and white frosting, add white streaks in the trees for snow.
7. Frost the bottom third of round cake blue. Transfer remaining blue frosting to a pastry or plastic bag; cut a hole in the corner. Pipe snowflakes in sky. Sprinkle round cake with edible glitter.

shortening, sugar, eggs, milk, molasses, cake flour, baking powder, salt, ground cinnamon, baking soda, ground allspice, ground nutmeg, ground cloves, butter, cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, brown

Taken from www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/snow-globe-cake/ (may not work)