Best Bucket Cake Dessert Recipes

CANDY BUCKET CAKE

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Provided by Food Network Kitchen

Time 3h

Yield 25 to 30 servings

Number Of Ingredients 12

Ingredients

Cooking spray
2 18 .25-ounce boxes spice cake mix
8 large eggs
2 cups buttermilk
2/3 cup vegetable oil
2 16 -ounce tubs vanilla frosting
Orange gel food coloring, for tinting
Cornstarch, for dusting
12 ounces orange rolled fondant (available at craft stores)
1/2 cup dark chocolate frosting
2 long black licorice strings
Snack-size candy, for topping

Steps:

Spray one 8-inch-round cake pan and two 6-cup Bundt pans with cooking spray. Beat the cake mixes, eggs, buttermilk and oil with a mixer; divide among the pans. Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, about 25 minutes for the round cake and 30 to 35 minutes for the Bundts; let cool.
Tint the vanilla frosting with orange food coloring. Trim the flat sides of the Bundt cakes and the top of the round cake to make level. Turn 1 Bundt cake upside down; spread with frosting. Top with the round cake, more frosting and the other Bundt cake, then frost the whole cake and chill 30 minutes.
Lightly dust a sheet of wax paper with cornstarch. Roll out the fondant on the paper into a 21-by-8-inch rectangle, about 1/8 inch thick. Cut into 12 strips, 8 inches long and 1 3/4 inches wide, tapering the ends as shown.
Attach the fondant strips to the cake, lightly pressing and smoothing them from the base of the cake upward. Refrigerate the cake 30 minutes.
Draw jack-o'-lantern eyes, a nose and a mouth on paper and cut them out; attach to the cake with toothpicks. Score around the cutouts with a paring knife, then remove the toothpicks and paper.
Trace the scored lines with the knife, cutting through the fondant and slightly into the cake. Pry out the pieces with the tip of the knife.
Cut a 1-inch-deep circle out of the top of the cake. Put the dark chocolate frosting in a resealable plastic bag; snip the corner and pipe the frosting into the cutouts.
Twist the 2 strings of licorice together and insert into the top of the cake to make a handle. Fill the top of the cake with snack-size candy.

BUCKET CAKE DESSERT

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The title of this recipe speaks for itself..a cake made in an ice cream bucket...delicious and always a hit at any party..the kids big and little love this and is a great conversation piece for company at your party..

Provided by Pat Duran @kitchenChatter

Categories Cakes

Number Of Ingredients 4

Ingredients

18 ounce(s) cake mix, any flavor
6 ounce(s) instant pudding, any flavor
1 large frozen whipped topping, thawed
1 large ice cream bucket

Steps:

Heat oven to 350^. Bake cake according to package directions in a 9x13-inch greased baking dish. Cool completely.
Make the pudding according to package directions,set aside. When cake is baked and cooled completely, place 1/4 of the cake,torn in bite size pieces,into the empty bucket. Then 1/4 of the prepared pudding. Then 1/4 of the thawed whipped topping. Repeat layers 3 more times ,until all ingredients are used up.
Bucket should be filled. Let this mixture chill in the refrigerator overnight with the lid on, to blend the flavors. To serve.just spoon right out of the bucket! My family enjoys making and eating this gourmet farmer's dessert. Keep unused dessert in refrigerator.
Try some of these combinations: banana cake with banana pudding chocolate cake with chocolate pudding and chocolate syrup white cake, cherry pie filling,vanilla pudding yellow cake, strawberries(or other fruit) ----- always add whipped topping with the combinations. you can also add nuts, syrups,and fresh or canned fruit or pie filling...go have fun..