Desserts

Chocolate Cream Ornament Cake

photo by:kraft

Bringing dessert? Knock their socks off with a deceptively easy cream-cheese-frosted chocolate cake, beautifully decorated for the season. Now that's how you deck the halls.

time

prep:

20 min

total:

1 hr 20 min

servings

total:

16 servings

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What You Need

pkg. (2-layer size) chocolate cake mix

pkg. (3.9 oz.) JELL-O Chocolate Instant Pudding

pkg. (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened

cup powdered sugar

1-1/2

cups thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping

ice cream cone

piece red string licorice (2 inch)

Decorating gel

Colored sugar

Make It

HEAT oven to 350°F.

PREPARE cake batter and bake as directed on package for 2 (9-inch) round cake layers, blending dry pudding mix into batter before pouring into prepared pans. Cool cakes in pans 10 min.; remove to wire racks. Cool completely.

BEAT cream cheese and powdered sugar in large bowl with mixer until well blended. Gently stir in COOL WHIP. Stack cake layers on plate, spreading 1/3 of the cream cheese mixture between layers. Frost top and side of cake with remaining cream cheese mixture.

POKE 2 small holes in bottom of ice cream cone; insert ends of licorice into holes, leaving small loop at top. Place next to cake to resemble ornament hanger. Decorate cake with decorating gel and colored sugar as desired. Keep refrigerated.

Kraft Kitchens Tips

Size-Wise

You'll know it's a special occasion when you get to enjoy a serving of this festive cake.

Easy Decorating Idea

For fun and easy patterns, place cookie cutters on top of cake and fill in shapes with the colored sugar.

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audidawn

posted:11/13/2010

I do this with red. Looks and tastes amazing!

linhd

posted:12/27/2009

Great looking cake. We used red gel/sugar and it turned out beautifully. Added a 1/2 cup more icing sugar and cool whip to the frosting so it wouldn't taste so cheesy.

a cook

posted:12/11/2009

Cake was really delicious; made for a Christmas party & was raved! Melissa

iclaudiub

posted:1/2/2009

It was delicious and beautiful! Fun to decorate. The only problem was that the licorice kept breaking after bending it into the cone holes.

mama4jai

posted:12/27/2008

This cake was really delicious, I changed it up by using a yellow cake mix and vanilla creme pudding mix instead. I'm not too big on chocolate but it still a smash! :) I definitely loved the frosting, it wasn't too sweet>

Louise

posted:12/16/2008

I was disappointed with the video, you did not show how the gel was applied. The cake part is easy and putting an ice cream cone on the top is easy too. It would have been nice to really see how the gel gets applied to get such nice lines. Cake tasted great but that was not the point.

chani.s.joshi

posted:11/12/2008

I made this for a holiday party last year and will be making it again this year. Super yummy and really cute!

carinleo

posted:8/1/2008

I made this cake two weeks ago for a Christmas in July party. It had to be one of the best cakes I've had. EVERYONE ranted and raved about it. It was not only beyond delicious (cream cheese and whipped cream icing were to die for) but the cake looked fantastic.... I will definitely be making this again11

edolphs

posted:2/13/2008

We watch calories so I made easy subsitutions and no one noticed. I used Reduced sugar cake mix, low fat cream cheese, sugar free pudding and fat free cool whip. I have made it chocolate and vanilla, I made it heart shaped for a Valentine's b-day and dyed the icing pink.

wolflover60

posted:12/26/2007

This was excellent. I made it for Christmas and the whole family loved it. I am only 13 years old and I could make it all by myself. I added another 1/2 cup of powdered sugar b/c the frosting tasted too much like cream cheese. I recommend watching the how to frost video on kraft foods. it really helps,especially on how to store the cake.