Guacamole Cake
- Cooking spray
- 1 16 1/2 -ounce box chocolate cake mix (plus required ingredients)
- 1 16 -ounce tub chocolate frosting
- 12 chocolate sandwich cookies, ground in a food processor
- 1 pint vanilla ice cream, softened Green, yellow and red food coloring, for tinting
- 1/4 cup red and/or green candied cherries, chopped
- Cinnamon-sugar pita chips, for serving
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 2 1/2-quart ovenproof bowl with cooking spray.
- Put paper liners in 3 cups of a muffin pan.
- Prepare a chocolate cake mix as directed.
- Fill the liners two-thirds of the way, then pour the rest into the prepared bowl.
- Bake the cupcakes and bowl cake until a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean, about 18 minutes for the cupcakes and 50 minutes for the bowl cake.
- Let cool.
- Remove the bowl cake and peel off the liners; freeze 20 minutes.
- Put the bowl cake upright on a cake board or plate.
- Carve out the middle, about 1 inch from the edge, with a paring knife to make room for the "guacamole."
- Cover the top and sides of the bowl cake with chocolate frosting.
- Pat ground chocolate sandwich cookies over the frosting to cover.
- Invert the cake onto another cake board or plate.
- Frost the bottom of the bowl cake.
- Trim the cupcake tops to make them level and attach to the bottom of the bowl cake with frosting.
- Frost the sides of the cupcakes as shown.
- Pat cookie crumbs into the frosting to cover completely.
- Transfer to the freezer.
- Mix the ice cream with 14 drops of green food coloring, 8 drops of yellow and 2 drops of red until it turns guacamole green.
- Stir in the candied cherries.
- Invert the cake so it's bowl-side up.
- Pat any loose crumbs into place, then fill with the ice cream.
- Freeze at least 1 hour.
- Serve with cinnamon-sugar pita chips.
- Photograph by Lisa Shin
cooking spray, chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, chocolate sandwich cookies, vanilla ice cream, red andor, cinnamonsugar pita chips
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/guacamole-cake-recipe.html (may not work)