Yum!
Last week was Public Service appreciation week, and our work gave us a nice patio event to drop-in and have a piece of cake and some pop and a popcorn. It was really tasty, and having the cake and popcorn gave me an idea…(and later, a terrible stomachache. I thought I was going to puke).
I was going to make my own popcorn cake! My own creation!
And so this past weekend, I did- voila, the popcorn-chocolate layer cake.
What do you need to make such a delicacy (monstrosity?)? It’s so easy…
1 box of cake mix (I used Wal-Mart brand devil’s food, and DO NOT recommend it. It sucked. Get Duncan Hines or something.)
1 bag of microwave popcorn, butter flavour
1 container of fudge frosting
Make the cake mix in two 20-inch pans, so you have two small round cakes. You may need 2 cake mixes for this, depending on how thick you want the cakes.
Cool them on racks, and then microwave the popcorn.
Frost the top of one of the cakes, and layer popcorn on top of the frosting. Make it a good, generous layer- no popcorns missing!
Put the top layer of the cake on top of the popcorn layer. Squish it down really well, it will want to pop up and shift.
Frost the top of the cake. It is basically impossible to frost ‘around’ the whole cake, as popcorns fell out and got stuck to the icing (why yes, this was very messy, why do you ask??).
Decorate with a row of popcorn kernels along the top as pictured.
Slice very carefully- use a big knife and make the slices BIG! (But I didn’t need to tell YOU that haha).
And enjoy! Even on day 2 it’s delicious to eat. Yumm!
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