Cookie Cutter Cake {desserts}

Cookie Cutter Cake

Ingredients

Cake
• One yellow cake mix for the cake
• One cake mix of another color for the cookie cutter shape
• Add food coloring to the cake mix if necessary.
• One Cookie Cutter
Icing
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla,
• Replace vanilla with 1/4 teaspoon almond extract if desired

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350. Prepare loaf pan by spraying with non-stick spay and coasting with flour.
• Mix cake mix as directed for the cookie cutter cake. Bake in a loaf pan for indicated time. Cool, then slice into 1/4" to 1/2" slices and cut out shapes using your cookie cutter.
• Line them up in loaf pan. Make sure they are snug so cake batter does not go in between them.
• Mix the second cake mix as directed. Pour over cookie cutter cakes. Use a measuring cup to pour in cake batter to prevent cakes from falling to one side.
• Bake cake as directed. Cool and top with icing. Cut and serve.
Icing
• Melt 1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) of butter in a saucepan or microwave.
• Sift 2 cups of powdered sugar into a medium size bowl.
• Add the melted butter to the powdered sugar.
• Add 2 tablespoons of milk.
• Add in vanilla.
• Beat until smooth and creamy, adding a little more milk if necessary.
• Drizzle over a cooled cake.

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