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1 Betty Crocker™ pound cake mix 1/4 cup butter, softened 2 eggs 2/3 cup water or milk 2 cups diced Granny Smith Apples, from two apples 1 teaspoon cinnamon
For the Cinnamon Frosting
1-1/2 tubs Betty Crocker™ Whipped white frosting 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Green food coloring
For the Chocolate Popcorn Tree
1 1/2 tablespoons butter 3 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows 1/3 cup chocolate chips 2 cups chocolate crispy rice cereal 6 ounces melted and tempered milk chocolate or melted light cocoa confectionery coating (candy melts) 5 cups popped popcorn 10 ounces melted green confectionery coating (candy melts) 50 small sour cherry candies
For the Picket Fence
10 ounces white modeling chocolate
Directions
- Apple Pound Cake: Prepare pound cake mix according to package instructions. Toss apple pieces with 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Fold apples into cake batter. Pour batter into a nonstick, tin foil-lined 9x13-inch baking pan. Bake at 350ºF for 32-36 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool cake completely. Remove cake from pan and peel off tin foil. Set cake on a cake board.
- Cinnamon Frosting: Pour Betty Crocker Whipped White Frosting into a mixing bowl. Add 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon and green food coloring. Stir until well blended. Spread a very thin layer of green frosting over cake. Pour remaining frosting into a pastry bag fitted with a grass tip. Pipe grass over top of cake, leaving an open space for the apple tree.
- Cereal Tree Trunk: 1) Make the cereal treat mixture. Combine butter, marshmallows, and chocolate chips in a large bowl. Heat in the microwave on high for 30-second increments, stirring after each, until melted. Stir in cereal. 2) Working on a silicone mat, sculpt a tree trunk with a few low branches out of the cereal treat mixture. Brush melted and tempered milk chocolate or melted light cocoa confectionery coating over the tree trunk. Make smaller branches, brush them with chocolate, allow them to dry, and add them to the tree trunk using chocolate as glue. Then allow that to dry and add one more layer of chocolate over top of the branch. 3) Once you've added all the branches, add one more coat of chocolate then refrigerate it for 15-20 minutes until the chocolate sets hard.
- Popcorn Leaves: Place popcorn in a large mixing bowl. Reserve 1 tablespoon of the green confectionery coating for later, then pour the rest over top of the popcorn and fold until well coated. Add pieces of the green colored popcorn to the tree, placing them between branches first, then start stacking the pieces on top of each other until you have a full tree. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
- Apples: Attach some of the sour cherry candies to the popcorn tree using the reserved green confectionery coating as edible glue. Reserve the remaining candies to sprinkle on the cake under the tree.
- Picket Fence: Knead white modeling chocolate and roll out on a silicone mat until 1/8-inch thick. Cut four 1/2-inch wide by 12-inch long strips and four 1/2-inch wide by 9-inch long strips. Cut 38 strips that are 1/2-inch wide by 2-inch long. Cut one end of each piece into a point. Set two 12-inch long strips about 3/4 inches apart. Use water to attach the small 2-inch fence pieces along those two strips about an inch apart. Repeat creating one more 12-inch long panel. Then do the same using the 9-inch strips, creating a total of 4 picket fence panels to go around the cake.
- Before serving, place the tree on top of the cake. Pipe green grass around the tree. Press the picket fence around the base of the cake, cutting off any excess fence. Sprinkle some sour cherry candies on the grass under the tree.
Slice into this adorable cake for a taste of sweet apples and cinnamon.
Autumn is the perfect time to enjoy an apple dessert, and this cake sure won’t disappoint. Cinnamon-coated crisp and tart Granny Smith Apples are baked into a Betty Crocker Pound Cake and then topped with a light cinnamon frosting.
The cake is wonderful all on its own, but to put it over the top, I decorated it to look like a grass-covered yard and planted a cute tree on top that’s made from chocolate cereal treats, white chocolate coated popcorn, and sour candy apples. The white picket fence is made out of white modeling chocolate, which means this entire dessert is edible! So once your friends and family are done oohing and ahhing over the tree, they'll love eating this sweet fall-inspired treat.
First, to really carry the theme through the cake, I added cinnamon apples to a Betty Crocker Pound Cake Mix.
The apples added a lovely fresh fall flavor to the pound cake and helped to keep it moist.
To make the apple flavor really pop, I added a touch of cinnamon to some Betty Crocker Whipped White Frosting, which I then tinted green and spread onto the cake. I could have skipped this step, but the top of my cake was rather bumpy. I could have leveled it, but decided instead to fill in the grooves with frosting.
To make the frosting look like grass, I added a grass decorating tip to a pastry bag, filled it with frosting, and then piped frosting grass all over the top of the cake, leaving room to add my apple tree later. Then I froze my cake for a few hours. I knew the pound cake would be nice and sturdy, but I wanted to make sure the cake was solid enough to hold up my tree without having to add lots of support. Plus, I find that a frozen cake, once thawed, is more moist and tender.
